Recent content by Imperialis

I do a lot of dragons, not because they're important to my fantasy world (Aethria) but because they are a facet of my world's culture, they gave us magic, no one knows from where, they invented Centaurs, they've been ridden by our greatest leaders, but they aren't important anymore. There are...

I have a language based on Shona and Romany (better known as the Gypsy tongue) but these people were so tricksy by nature that no one said anything was wrong, ever. If you asked "Tabaky sooja Boba" meaning Is that Bob? (language is all open syllables, following Bantu phonotactics, therefore a is...

The use of naming weapons as a plot device has always been a point of some contention with me and my friends. You can go back to El Cid and Tizona or Musashi's Okinaro "Big Oar" (look up Musashi vs. Kojiro), but this desire to add artificial meaning to a weapon by naming it is a cheat out. Look...

So one day there was just this decision to make a word to describe indeterminate holy beings? Interesting, and I really appreciate the work and research you put into this. However, do you not have any interest in writing up a world of your own? As I think only you have the clearest understanding...

In my world, a sci-fan affair with a heavy roman imperial/ renaissance feel to it, there is a religion known as the Emotoria, a completely madeup word that should give you some clue as to it's nature. The Emotoria is an anonymous religion, no one knows anyone in it thanks to masks, large...

Also, you might think of making it a matter of training, after all this new substance and the weaponry involved with it would be complicated to use at this stage, with complex loading procedures and learning how to care for your powder, so each man would need time you just don't have to invest...