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Hello! and welcome. Make yourself at home. We're all friendly here. What kind of dogs are they?

Your work on languages that you've shared looks very thorough and committed to! Creating an original language for you world is of course very worthwhile if you can do it successfully. Not only for the cultural reasons Elemtilas has explained, but because the system of naming places and times in...

Ah so you have it. Does Aeon feature the simple dates-scattered-along-a-horizontal-line-with-a-year-scale timeline?

Right, what I have done and developed for many years is a chronology (in a Google Doc) in list-form, which I assume is what you mean. It works as perfectly as it can. But with timelines, as opposed to annals, you can of course visualize duration and the relative times of events. Because this is...

What would be the most ideal kinds of durable wood for crafting longbows?

How practical is it? Well think, is it difficult for bones to break? Yes.

Fascinating that languages could be considered "somewhat unnecessary" in a fantastical context. Not only is it fun (I've done it) if you wish your mythology to have more possible semantic dimensions, which other languages (i.e. a second language, and on) per se always bring to a human mind - but...

Over the past four years, I have found myself coining many new English words, when writing prose that I wish to imitate (in style) the style of ''The Silmarillion'' and of J.R.R. Tolkien's old "Lost Tales". Most of what has enabled me to do this is my background in studying Latin for the...

Like I said, I initially did just that. I'll give Aeon a look as Fifthview mentioned.

I've played GRAW 2 for six years, and love it to death! But I can tell you its genre doesn't got much to do with fantasy gaming.....

One visual manifestation of world-building, alongside making family trees, mapping, and drawing, is making timelines/chronologies of your world's history. Does anyone know of software or a website where you can make your own? If you search for "Timeline creator", the results will either be...

I have ADD, and I'm sure it's a factor. But I've also seen it said somewhere that people with messy desks also tend to be creative, and my desk turns out to be that way.....

Instrumental Jazz, Traditional Celtic Music, Bach, Kansas, Zimmer and Howard Shore's soundtracks, pockets of praise music, and choral music (in real life).

Hello everyone! I'm HiddenVale. Currently I am the one running things at the second largest encyclopedia for J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world. For awhile I've always wanted to successfully find a community of fantasy-world makers, but never actually looked up the right things until this week...