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MI´m planning, God willing, insha'Allah, to write a fantasy series, but my major concern is my prose style; my first language isn't...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.Thank you! This gives me great encouragement to craft. I'm not trying to be unique, per say, but I tend to focus on historic things that...
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MAs with all world building ideas, everything will depend on your execution of it. I look forward to hearing more of your progress /...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.That's the goal. To bring this to life, but I have to say, I'm, if I'm allowed to be bold, planning a series, and the story is actually...
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MI hope you bring this to life. Shake things up a little in the Elf World. Reaching back to a more historical representation would be...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.While the written material is post-Christianization, the content isn't necessarily. A lot of it points to pagan beliefs, and I will even...
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It’s interesting, because what evidence we have that actually exists doesn’t tell us how information actually spread and when and most... -
MMSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.You can thank the Norman invasion for that haha. As for Beowulf, we can actually frame its time. I don't remember the details, but...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.A bring-over isn't accurate, as the corpus is older than the arrival of Scandinavians on Anglo-Saxon England, evidenced by names such as...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Elves, based on Anglo-Saxon Perception.In short, there are many worlds that are connected through a place called Dragon Burrow because of its time and space distortion...
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MWhile they're called Elves, they're not elves, not in the Tolkien way. The word elf (ælf in Old English) denoted white, feminine...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread How much do you delve into the darkest aspects of the Fantasy Worlds you build?.It depends on how dark your story is. If it's not too dark, then you don't need to delve into them. For me, the "darkness" is internal...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread New Here! Introducing my Magic System.Yes, I expected to be hard to follow because I made it really dense in the post, but in the novel I plan on making, , these concepts are...
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MThe power system is a quasi-elemental magic system that relies on the senses of words—their denotations and connotations. In this...