Translation convention is a great device and I love it (and use it) to bits. But sometimes it just causes issues. So — something of a language rant incoming 🙂 Both in the webcomic and in prose, I use English to represent the PoV language. Both Bereghins and Halcians in…
The ninth month of the year on Halqueme, the one that ends with the Day of the Autumn Sun on the autumnal equinox, is called Harvest-month. Being the time when the summer of hard work finally starts to pay off (or not), it’s associated with the lerale of Justice. There…
Monthly meditation on the 15th of the Pasture-month: fire, and courage. The Lore The eighth month of the year on Halqueme, the Pasture-month, belongs to the lerale of fire. The lerale of fire — which could, perhaps more accurately, be described as the lerale of heat — is the most…
I just realized I missed this month’s monthly meditation. Whoops. This time I do have something of an excuse, though—I’m neck-deep in a new novel that I’ve taken up for this July’s camp NaNoWriMo. It explores life on the Bereghin Verge, where the human Realm of Bereg borders the mysterious…
At War’s Edge webcomic episode 131 is up! In which bana-Polada would like to meet Prince Meled’s seer, Prince Meled would like to share some news with the gosudar, and and the gosudar wants to be left alone… I mean, the gosudar promises to be more careful.
Monthly meditations, continued =) The sixth month of the year on Halqueme is generally called the Grass-month. For most agricultural regions of the continent, is the time when all crops are planted and it’s becoming more and more predictable whether they will survive. It is also the time to make…
Monthly meditations, continued =) The fifth month of the year on Halqueme is generally called the Flower-month, or the Blossom-month, and is associated with the lerale of… …it’s a tricky one. His name is commonly given as Olnem—sometimes as Olhest or Olnes. Some say he is the lerale of sleep…
Continuing the monthly meditations by the way of worldbuilding =) The fourth month of the year, on Halqueme, is called the River-month. In the north is associated with the spring thaw, and in the south with the seasonal flooding. It is also associated with the lerale of Water, and with the…
I missed the last monthly meditation. It should have been on the lerale of Memory, and on love of learning, which is oddly symbolic. But this month we’re getting back on track. The lerale to be aware of during the Storm-month, the third month of the year, is the spirit…
At War’s Edge Page 113 is up!A Sudden Philosophical Aside. Because getting Gorrion drunk to get her to talk totally worked.