Recent content by Ban

Welcome back aboard. The ship is luckily still sailing steadily across these turbulent seas.

All the best Lowan (all of you). Take your time to grieve.

Seeing as Tolkien spun a whole genre-defining (subgenre-generating?) world out of his conlangs, you're in wonderful company. Personally, I rather enjoy creating conlangs. Specifically, I enjoy creating Romance and Germanic-derived languages, because that's where my knowledge and interest lies.

Ban said: "I currently have 423 colons and 40 semicolons spread throughout a rather short novel. I tend to use colons in connection to dialogue, so the colon count (odd term) would be reduced by many hundreds if I were to remove those. "

Personally I enjoy maps in fantasy, but I believe they should fit the worldbuilding. Having a mercator map filled with accurate details a their correct distances from eachother, seems to me rather unbelievable in a feudal setting. I'd much prefer seeing a map that resembles historic maps of the...

Haha that ought to make matters easier. I can often string together the overall meaning of Spanish text, but I would have to rely heavily on a translator to do anything more.

So far there have been no folks who have chosen the same class, which is somewhat interesting since we are all driven to engage in the same hobby (and for some profession).

Hey Lope, welcome aboard. There should be enough passionate fantasy folk around here for you to converse with, though regarding the "constructive criticism" I should not that we don't have a lot of Spanish speakers. It might be hard to find folks who can help with critique requests.

I looked up what the options are and figure druid is appropriate. I am an erudite fellow and care a great deal for the greenery where I live, as well as spending time within it. If I'd have my way, there would only be villages and thorps in Limburg. Cities stymie my spirit.

Avatars are always a fun concept to play with as well. Makes me think of another idea. Two avatars bound together in one of the manners above, but their originating deities (which the avatars are aspects of) are not intertwined. Or vice versa, where each side of the pair uses their avatars as...

Good midnight folks (or whichever time it may be). Two years ago I posted a little list of different forms of immortality I came up with, which can be found here. After another idle worldbuilding session I have returned with a sequel of sorts. How fitting that the sequel consists of dualism. In...

Glorious JSTOR, I still pine for it. Oh what niche bounty it has!

I find the concept of heraldry generic enough that it would not stick out to me, as long as there are aristocrats (or other elites) to bear the heraldry. The notion of creating such icons to represent a lineage seems a common sense one, and I see no reason why it could not emerge through a...

Eight arms, three jaws, one heart...Damn it.

I write purely out of passion now. The boat for getting a name out before the advent of LLM-reliant pseudo-writers was missed due to my languid writing pace. As irksome as it is to see something I took for granted taken away, namely the basic belief that people can write without a glorified...