Recent content by Barstar

When I make a world I get really into it, I'll sit quietly in a garden and think about that world. When I plan out world I go right to the beginning and set up the entire history of the galaxy, not just the world. Heroes and races and gods and monsters are all accounted for, every single thing...

You have a nice sounding world here, but some of the names seem a bit blatant (Elektonia specifically) Lot's of Greek inspiration, I don't see a lot of that in fantasy these days

Once you answer why they are invading (what causes that group to invade that place in those numbers) you will be much closer to your answer. The "Foreign Horde" is not really a cliche, it is much closer to an instinctive fear that humans have developed in response not only to other humans but...

For battle strategy I can give you some paraphrased quote I MIGHT have heard from Julius Ceasar, but maybe actually not The best strategies are rarely the most surprising or original, often the most effective strategy is the most predictable. Any strategy that sees you end with more soldiers...

Tolkien was a professor of ancient Norse and Celtic language, he wrote his own languages and made names out of those. Mot writers just take words or words form other languages and use those. One method I have been toying with is taking a word from another language and applying it to an...

Your answers are all very technically correct, which is just fine, but I think you failed understand the question as I intended it, the true purpose of the question was to determine the exact nature of political power, not the trends that we see repeated with respect to the application of...

Sorry for the ambiguous title (I hate those so much) but I really couldn't think of a better way to title what is essentially a list of questions. Let me get right to it: What is the origin and source of power and how is that reflected in a low/mid fantasy world/society?: To expand, I am...