Recent content by Hans

I actually like worldbuilding. A world is useful for so much more than one single story. (For example, two stories.) What I like most is the diversity and versatility that you seem to fear. One method to put it to an advantage: Ever sat through a class, meeting, lecture, speech or similar that...

This is a feature of old coastlines where the waves had a long time to work on them. Also it could be a in world map without the very exact measure instruments we have today. That means a lot regions are drawn from hearsay. Also a valid method to make a "original" map.

About her character: She grew up as some kind of swamp witch. I searched for an other name, but this one (actually "Sumpfhexe") stuck. In these swamps where she learned survival "eat or be eaten" is brutal every day reality. My MC learned very fast, and after completing her education at a rather...

Does this apply to artifact magic in general? What is with the making of magic swords? Does this count as punishable magic?

Thank you for the responses. She is very limited in that she is bound and gagged. She rots away her bonds, but there is no way she alone could go up against a group of battle trained armored men. Now we have rot and disease, see a pattern in her magic style? There is a reason she keeps it a...

In my current WIP I have a scene about which I am not sure how the reader will perceive it. I will have this scene but could change the follow up of it according to the presumed reaction. My MC is on a travel working as a handmaiden. The travel party gets abducted, with the mistress of my MC as...

I doubt the "drop back age" has a historical equivalent on earth. First, lots of survival skills needed in preindustrial times are mainly lost. That starts with large scale agriculture without machines. On the other hand nearly everyone today has a basic grasp of newtonian mechanics. It is not...

We already had a thread about this: http://mythicscribes.com/forums/writing-questions/3220-showing-vs-telling.html Might be worth a look before restarting the discussion with the same arguments.

Feel free to modify as you see fit. I know my English is not the best.

Unlikely. What he writes seems pretty valid. If you want to double check with a different source you might follow that link (German forum thread): Waffendesign - Versuch eines Tutorials - Weltenbastel-Theorie - Weltenbastler Forum

The other ones I named are more "true" fantasy heroes. But it has been some time since I read about them. Maybe someone els knows them better than I?

Gilgamesh and Enkidu Gilgamesh was king of Uruk, two third god one third human. Mythology allows that. Being king he could do whatever he wanted and he wanted to do the women of Uruk. All of them. So the population grew unhappy and called to the gods to help them. The gods created a man so wild...

It is a German story so most probably will do no good posting it in an English forum. With a simple link i could write [German] into the link text so anybody who can not read that language and can not be bothered with a translation tool does not need to click on it.

Always? Rome and ancient Greece had lots of mystery cults which were completely lost after the advent of Christianity. Because, you know, what makes a mystery cult is that they keep their mystery a secret. There were also well known mystery cults like the Dionysia or Eleusis. But still the...

I have written a short story about that last year. Actually it's a lake and a lava stream, but both represented by spirits. I wanted to revise it again because critics brought up some valid points but haven't come around to do it yet. Is it ok to give a link here?