We are living in a time when myths and legends emerge, take form and evolve. For as long as anyone can remember, there have been stories about leprechauns and the like, dozens of names all representing little secretive creatures who... Read More
Back before the lesbians ruled, all knowledge was free and the publishing industry flourished. But the new overlords recognized that the fragmented nature of the continent could be used to their advantage. Towns and regions with unadventurous citizens and widely... Read More
Yes, because the infrastructure is needed. Leaders need a team of advisors, advisors need clerks and messengers, and you need a lot of security, and everybody needs to be fed, and then there are horses and vehicles and groundskeepers… Such... Read More
Young teens cannot be trusted to control their hormonal urges, so they were rarely ever given the opportunity. Even in large towns, those who have reached a marrying age, have their choices limited to those they grew up with, which... Read More
Of course there are seasons. Spring has babies and autumn has leaves. Winter has snow and for the most part everyone stays at home, all rugged up, and we eat from the bountiful produce reaped during the year. Even the... Read More
She is a traveling fortune teller, and like many who ply that trade, her true skill is the observation of subtle clues in her marks, the use of seemingly innocent questions and basically telling people what they wish to hear.... Read More
Each of the oceans has a point of no return, beyond which no sailor has come back from. So of course there is much speculation, and primarily sea monsters are imagined to be sinking boats and disabling ships, gargantuan versions... Read More
Like all place names, it is by consensus, yet starts from the idea of one. The Emergery is the name used for this continent, and all of it that has been mapped, by the wise folk, the wizards, scientists and... Read More
For the first time in four years, as he grasped his knowicle under the midday sun, cross legged on the church roof, it hummed and pulled. It wanted Sam to head just west of north. If Sam left now and... Read More
It should be wrong to begin a story with a dream… Streams of meteors, flowing westward and sinking, setting fire to all we know, and sending silt and mud and dust and people into the air, swirling above us in... Read More