Recent content by MiguelDHorcrux

I am from the Philippines and I have seen people practice this. I also talked to someone from the Philippine National Museum about the weapon. It was a slashing weapon, and our ancestors patterned it after the tiger's claw. Normally, slashes are in the shape of an 8, or sometimes S or C. Targets...

For me, it depends on whose point of view I am using. If I am writing from the point of view of a pacifist, of course he will turn away upon the sight of the first drop of blood. If I am writing from the point of view of a sadist, then he will savour every millisecond of it. Same thing if I am...

You got "commonfolk" all wrong. There are people who love living in such conditions. Consider Saudi Arabia, Libya, Cuba and even North Korea. While not nearly as close to your fictional nation, these countries are undoubtedly horrible places to live in, yet you can find countless of their...

First of all, methinks the answer is in your own post haha. Anyway, in International Relations, neutrality is one tricky beast. There are IR theorists and practitioners who advocate that everything that does not alter the balance of power in any major way is still within the bounds of...

Maybe this isn't really related to your question, but I do suggest not making them aware of such mannerisms. I spent most of my life in a protestant school since it's the only school near our house, and for about ten years I was used to having a pocket bible in the pocket of my shirt, and so do...

My favorite character is Julia Goldschild. She went through a lot, having been married off to a sadistic prince at the age of 8 to avoid a war. The prince raped her and brutalized her and all out ruined her. Now in the story, she is mental and has four magical pandas. And I'm not kidding.

Microbes living within the icebergs poop it. And it takes a really long time for enough of the ore to come, but of course the duration might depend on your story's need.

I don't know if there are past threads on this, but I just want to ask if any of you experienced having your characters play God. I don't mean killing another character, since that basically counts as playing God in the sense that you try to be the God of that person by determining until when...

A hundred years should also be enough for them to take care of the bare necessities, say for example they now have structures for storing water and food for the rainy season. Speaking of rainy season, here in the Philippines, also heavily influenced by the Spaniards due to 333 years of...

Another noob question (though I guess this is what the thread is for after all haha) How do flaming arrows work? Do they even work? I mean, won't the wind extinguish the flames? Another thing, do arrows really spin when fired and do they "drill" through their targets on impact? And lastly, how...

He is sorta the son of a war engineer and he will steal some of his father's blueprints and sell them to a hostile nation. Said hostile nation I intend to be the antagonist for a second book.

Any of you guys experienced demoting a major character into background status halfway through the story, just before the climax? I have this character who has this usual do-I-love-money-more-than-my-friends arc and instead of going for the cliche, I will make him choose money over his friends...

The traditional focuses of sociology include social stratification, social class, social mobility, religion, secularization, law, sexuality and deviance. I think it will still be greatly relevant to her cause. Oh and I used the term he because, well, all hail the patriarchy :p

The main character is still in the modern world. I presume he knows he will be somehow transported to the 15th century and be its monarch, so I suggested that he learns Sociology while he is still in the modern world.

Varicks :D