I spent the second week of pre-production figuring out how a Bereghin feast works. That was a lot of research, and also a lot of just trying to put things together. But I’m finally starting to feel like I know what I’m doing here. Disclaimer: I’m NOT saying everything described…
This time, I’m trying to approach the design of the new location in a slightly more methodical way than before. In the hopes that it will make things easier and faster. I’m also going to try to keep track of how that goes. The first stage, technically, is concept-art and…
I’ve started working on the World Anvil profile for Uncharred again (nothing I’m particularly proud of yet, so no links). The main struggle is figuring out the point of view, oddly enough. When I was doing the monthly meditations last year, I noticed that I default to talking about Halqueme…
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…
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…
One of the things that makes Ellur different from Earth (apart from magic and geography) is the presence of the leralath (singular: lerale). I believe I’ve described the leralath as anthropomorphic personifications before, but that’s not entirely accurate. It would be better to say that some natural processes (and possibly…