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If we were to continue with the city of Skelling, that would be the local constabulary. Also known as Connies, Ermans, Rousches, and your friendly neighbourhood police officer. Unfortunately, unless they catch the thief red-handed, there is probably not much they can do. Even if you manage to...

Well, I'm no chef, and certainly no culinarian. Maybe that would be better. Maybe it'd be the Miller's Mistress, cause it's thiccer.

Why it depends on what you're looking for. If you want the city life, you'd be best to check into a hotel by the coast in Skelling; the sprawling capital and industrial centre of the mighty Empire of the Isles. By the docks you'll find loads of marketplaces selling wares from all over the...

Great, thanks c:

Well I've just started on my very first story, so that's well enough for me.

Oh snap, didn't realize you were a properly established author. Guess I have a senpai now.

I suppose you're right. I must have been too focused on the aesthetics to focus on the actual more important parts. And now that I think about it, those aspects of them are woefully underdeveloped.

Hmm, well I do have some experienced with making conlangs just for fun. With some work, I believe I could lay the foundations for a Yiddisch-esque mixture of languages, using words from the local language but barely intelligible when spoken.

On a related note, I just read that the average human male has about 4 grams of iron within their body, vast majority of which is in the blood, with females having about 3.5 grams. The regular longsword weighs between 1 and 1.2 kilograms. So if you have about 300 people you don't like, you could...

That would be quite a different kind of vampire from the traditional kind. If the condition kept getting worse the more you used that kind of magic, those vampires would eventually need a constant supply of fresh blood. Perhaps it would act as a natual lifespan of vampires, as their condition...

Perhaps over-usage of hemomancy damages the production of blood cells, leading to thin blood, poor clotting, poor stamina and exhaustion. Magus' blood.

To think that of all the reasons to outlaw blood magic, risk of STDs would be one of them.

Hemomancy is fucky. It's the slasher movie of magic schools, but just what you can do with it tends to be pretty ambiguous. Just what part of the blood do you control? Of all the components that make up blood, could you control each if them in their pure form? Could tou take the iron out of the...

What power did religion have in Europe during the 19th century? I know there was a certain amount of secularization taking place, but I'm not sure to what extent, escpecially from country to country. For example, how much power did the Pope have, compared to medieval time, and to today?

I have a story taking place during a fantasy world going through its industrial revolution, think 1850s to 1870s. So what I would like to know is, what did warfare look like in this era of history? How did one fight in, say, the Crimean War and the Franco-Prussian War, and how did the methods...