Recent content by Eliazar

I am always interested in seeing new fantasy races. However, I think often, they are not too well done and are very reminiscent of the classical races like Orcs and Elves, only that they now have weird sounding names. So if it's not something very different, I usually prefer the classical stuff...

Once upon a time, courtrooms seem to have been interesting. For the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, people even erected new telegraph masts to cover it, if I remember correctly. I think the story sound pretty interesting.

I started planning my book 5 years ago, and after several futile attempts to come up with something at all before, I decided to just create some characters I would like and brainstorm a classic plot in one night. So I did, and since then didn't really read it anymore untill a few days ago (as I...

Woah, thanks for sharing! Now I can't wait to see the movies anymore :D

It all depends on the political structure, I guess. You can of course have minor nobles be in charge of a city, but as far as I know, the bigger settlements were ruled independently. By guilds (merchants or craftsmen), for example, who meet in a city council and perhaps elect the leader. Also...

Nice list, thanks for the effort. By the way, Grimm's Fairy Tales were "written" by the Brothers Grimm, that is compiled and edited from oral stories from Germany and other parts of Europe. And as Beowulf is mentioned, the Scandinavian/German Nibelungen might fit in here, too. Not so sure how...

Currently, I'm doing my BSc in economics, afterwards I want to do a master in african studies (or perhaps development economics) and then see where it goes from there.

You can always use a mundane authority, like a king, a philosopher, or some "holy" sites in the nature, their father land, or somethig. I suppose these phrases came into existence when people faced some unexpected situations and thus cried out to whomever they believed in. If you don't have a...

It's not supposed to be completely black and white, but it's a dangerous thing that can damage your brain if you don't know how to handle it. Plus, it's mighty, so the corruption by power will feauture, too. The magic itself is neutral, it depends on what you do with it, exactly as you said. But...

One of the main characters of my story is a magic user, too. He doesn't know about it until the story begins (when he's 17 years or so), I'm not so sure why, though... thinking of it now, there will be more magic users in the story and they should somehow have a method at finding magically apt...

Especially role-playing worlds are a pretty good example of great things arising from the shared world concept. As mentioned above, D&D is a good example, or my personal favourite, Aventuria from the German The Dark Eye RPG. I think the key is to leave enough room for everyone involved (and...

True enough, but movie scenes are exciting, so they might help to create an exciting battle scene for a fantasy novel :) If they're all just poking away with polearms, there's not much to do for heroic characters.

I've done fencing and some martial arts, and it taught me a lot about how quick combat can be. My martial arts trainer (Indonesian Silat) is so fast, you don't even see what he's doing and I guess he could disable/kill you in 5 second if you're not trained to resist. I think concentrating on a...

I agree with the general notion - it depends on what you put your emphasis and/or how you market you book. If it just happens that there is polyamory in the book, even as the driving force behind some of the characers' emotions etc., I don't see why anyone "mainstream" would have a problem with...

Comics: Definitely Transmetropolitan. There's no one cooler than Spider Jerusalem :D Manga: I really like Berserk and Record of Lodoss War, also the anime versions of both. Pretty cool stories, especially Berserk.