Recent content by Edankyn

This fits my story's evolution perfectly. I've had the same end game in mind for several years. Even though the journey has taken many different iterations, it has always led to the same (or substantially similar) conclusion.

Good luck to all who entered. I'll be joining psychotick in posting my story here after the winners are announced in April.

I think of wolves being associated with druidic and Norwegian culture/language. Earth as a concept would be something like Mother-earth. The Norwegian word for mother is Mor, so I'd name it Mor or something derived from that.

I have two dogs, and they are privy to a lot more conversation than just the basics. The fact that she is acting as a guard dog might mean that she has to be away from the people more so than mine, but I wouldn't imagine she is so far away that she can't still hear their conversations. While...

Fantasy is built from cliches; I wouldn't worry about it. Like DavidJae I wonder how much of this will be relevant in the story or if it is just a back story for yourself as you write. I actually like Iveunik being trapped in the other realm, it adds a bit of gravity to the situation. Actions...

Definitely sounds intriguing, but I have a couple questions... Are there only six gods in total? If so is your calendar year split into six corresponding sections (with each GRC lasting approximately 2 months using our calendar), or does each God get two GRCs within one year (ex. God of Secrets...

Thanks for your responses everyone, I really appreciate it. Ankari that is fantastic artwork that really captures what I was thinking. The idea is too set for me to change it up much now, but at least I have better information so I don't try and present some sort of faux science explanation that...

So I've done some research on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, and I have an idea where one of my species consumes minerals to make an armor like skin. Quartz is fairly high on the Mohs scale and is the second most abundant mineral in the earth's continental crust, so it would be readily...

I think a lot of this depends on your prospective audience which in turn depends on the nature of your story. If your story is already pretty dark or adult themed, I think the odds are good that your audience will be accepting of cursing, and modern curse words will be less likely to jar them...

A tool like http://www.transhuman.talktalk.net/iw/Geosync.htm will give you most of the information you want. It allows you to choose how long the day is. It includes geosynchronous orbital distance and geosynchronous orbital distance which you can use to compute how long it would take for your...

Personally, I think they are overused in respect to being the bad guys. Specifically, I think they are overused in regards to being intellectually inferior hordes for a hero to chop his way through. I've only ever read two stories that presented Orcs in an equally intelligent or morally good...

Honestly I think even just the description you provided is enough. I don't think adding shapes in addition to colors makes it any more clear than the colors alone. For some reason my mind wanders to the book Divergent; something like the color scheme used there is more than sufficient.

Just to throw in a more literal position, to actually plagiarize someone else's work requires volition. Unless you are ripping text straight from Wheel of Time or some other book, odds are that at a minimum you would be paraphrasing. In the realm of copyright, Jordan (or rather Rigney's heirs)...

Whenever in doubt I just turn to 42. 42 hundred, 42 thousand, 42 million or 4.2 billion. If you're looking for a specific age that your planet has been around just make it up. Trying to perform the exact science behind planet aging is extremely complex, and in the end people will disagree with...

Very fascinating. I would thoroughly enjoy reading a story that used this as a premise for magic. It reminds me a little of epistemology; it would be fun to see that drawn out in a story, especially from different perspectives of each of the different races with different levels of intelligence.