World Building and Woolgathering

Websites and the mouths of colleagues are abuzz with the latest and last series of HBOs adaption of A Song of Ice and Fire , Game of Thrones...

My last post , tying into the Harry Clarke Project drew on (and obliquely referenced) both the Swan-Maidens of Norse myth and the image of ...

Armour Class: as leather Hit Dice: 4 Movement: twice that of a human, but they can fly. Attacks: two elegant ritual blades, kept...

This has come about for three reasons: Coins and Scroll’s new project ; the imminent demise of G+ and having recently finished two novels s...

For those of you in Great Britain and with a television license, I shall mention that Darren Aranofsky's Noah is on BBC iPlayer. I watc...

Another brief post, but in the same tent (roughly) as the Trojan War piece from a few weeks ago. I have been digging into Dan Simmons...

It's been quite a gulf since the last post. Here's something short, however, that I'd like to share. You may recall that I hav...

Here's something. A simplification of the ancient world for the purposes of deriving a flavourful setting. Two points of derivation, c...

It was after the great convocation of the faith in the Seventh Century of the Dominion of the Faithful that a great wave of new preachers, h...

In the midst of the city is a place of absolute quiet. Its bounds are irregular, adhering to the property laws of several centuries and a f...