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Mount Orderstorm

3rd November 2006

The Dwarven King Almo Deepaxe rules Orderstorm Mountain. Although inhabited mostly by Dwarves, people from just about every race live in or visit Orderstorm. Visitors and inhabitants are well documented; no one leaves or enters without passing through checkpoints manned by the Orderstorm Border Guard and Security Council.
Mount Orderstorm is located northwest of Nehra. One of […]

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National Novel Writing Month Fantasy Forum

2nd November 2006

November is America’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) so why not check out their forums for info on building worlds, saving world, creating memorable characters, killing memorable characters, imagining scary villains, destroying the villains, how to write sword figths, and more.

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Finn McCool (Fionn mac Cumhaill), legendary Gaelic Irish warrior

27th September 2006

Some Finn McCool folklore is too high-fantasy even for me (like the part about chucking a big piece of earth at an enemy, missing, and accidentally creating the Isle of Man when it landed in the Irish Sea).
However, other parts of the legend are pretty good. His battle with the Scottish Giant Fingal is a […]

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First post

30th May 2006

Welcome to my fantasy fiction blog where I’ll share fantasy stories and novel excerpts from my writing projects. I haven’t really figured out how to organize this stuff, but maybe I’ll be able to figure it out as I go.
Mine is a world where the main characters are necromancers and Elves (plus a few humans), […]

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