Category: Tales of Koleth
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Dealmaker’s Gambit: The Peppercorn Saga
There was a subplot in the Dealmaker’s Gambit that had to be cut because I just couldn’t get it to gel the way I wanted it to. The TL;DR was that Irora had Zag make a number of talismans into peppercorns and plant them in high-end restaurants, resulting in a…
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Playlist – the Dealmaker’s Gambit
I don’t often write while listening to music, but I do use music to get me in the right headspace to start writing. A few highlights: Child of Ashes by Madds Buckley The vocal quality of this piece is what I have in mind when I think of Zag’s voice,…
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On Names: Imaginary Worlds
So what exactly lured me down this rabbit hole of names and their political implications?
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On the Map
I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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On Questionnaires
I’ve been on the writing corner of the internet for a while now, and I’ve got a long, involved history with questionnaires. Whether you’re crafting a single roleplaying OC or an entire world, you’ll find thousands of lists full of all sorts of questions. Those lists can be super short…
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Character Creation: all in the family
In my first sketches of this current WIP, the protagonist was one of two children born to a single mother. The family began and ended there; these three were each other’s whole world, and nothing mattered but each other. It’s a very American family structure, which isn’t a bad thing–…
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