This would be the map that I could use for a post-modern setting. It re-writes the geography enough to make things interesting.
I could also have the 100m rise in sea levels be a temporary thing and then have them recede over the years.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
New Earth
This would be the map that I could use for a post-modern setting. It re-writes the geography enough to make things interesting.
I could also have the 100m rise in sea levels be a temporary thing and then have them recede over the years.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Thomas Book: Fae Typology
The Fae of Thomas Book fall into categories:
1. Pixie: No bigger than a half-foot-tall, they manifest as small balls of light and tend to resemble fireflies when traveling. They will often slip into the form of a toad, sparrow or some similar-sized creature to escape detection. They are chaotic balls of energy and light that can't hold still for a few moments at best and have no ability to remain focused on one thing for long.
They are identified by their butterfly (female) or dragonfly (male) wings.
2. Sprite: Larger than a Pixie, they can reach heights of up to a foot or so. Sprites are tried to their element and will resemble it in some form. Wood Sprites, Water Sprites, etc. They are more attuned to a theme of the elements more so than the Pixies who are energy itself.
3. Wildlings: They are larger than Sprites, usually reaching up to around 3 feet in height. Just as Sprites are more 'evolved' forms of Fae, so too are Wildlings more 'evolved' than Sprites. Wildlings tend to have a seasonal affiliation in that they will be lesser versions of one of the four Courts.
(See also: Bloodthorn)
4. Beast-Men: These are the People of the Courts of the Fae; the Satyrs, Centaurs, Fauns and xxx of the four courts.
(see also: Fae Courts)
5. Fae: The true leaders of the Fae realm.
6. High-Born: The leaders of the Fae.
1. Pixie: No bigger than a half-foot-tall, they manifest as small balls of light and tend to resemble fireflies when traveling. They will often slip into the form of a toad, sparrow or some similar-sized creature to escape detection. They are chaotic balls of energy and light that can't hold still for a few moments at best and have no ability to remain focused on one thing for long.
They are identified by their butterfly (female) or dragonfly (male) wings.
2. Sprite: Larger than a Pixie, they can reach heights of up to a foot or so. Sprites are tried to their element and will resemble it in some form. Wood Sprites, Water Sprites, etc. They are more attuned to a theme of the elements more so than the Pixies who are energy itself.
3. Wildlings: They are larger than Sprites, usually reaching up to around 3 feet in height. Just as Sprites are more 'evolved' forms of Fae, so too are Wildlings more 'evolved' than Sprites. Wildlings tend to have a seasonal affiliation in that they will be lesser versions of one of the four Courts.
(See also: Bloodthorn)
4. Beast-Men: These are the People of the Courts of the Fae; the Satyrs, Centaurs, Fauns and xxx of the four courts.
(see also: Fae Courts)
5. Fae: The true leaders of the Fae realm.
6. High-Born: The leaders of the Fae.
Thomas Book: Wilds
The Wilds is the realm in the aether controlled by the Fae.
Though it is difficult to conceptualize their realm - the best way to think of it is to imagine the space as an island floating in a sea of nothingness. Around the edge of the island is a high wall of cliffs that protect it from any who would attempt to land upon its shores.
Inside the island and beyond the wall of cliffs is a roughly round valley where the four Courts have claimed dominion over the island.
Each of the Courts control a section of the perimeter like pie wedges.
The closer that you get to the center - the less control any one Court has and so it's essentially neutral land.
At the very center of the Wilds is a large flat plane of grass and at its center is a massive stone table.
(Map to come)
Though it is difficult to conceptualize their realm - the best way to think of it is to imagine the space as an island floating in a sea of nothingness. Around the edge of the island is a high wall of cliffs that protect it from any who would attempt to land upon its shores.
Inside the island and beyond the wall of cliffs is a roughly round valley where the four Courts have claimed dominion over the island.
Each of the Courts control a section of the perimeter like pie wedges.
The closer that you get to the center - the less control any one Court has and so it's essentially neutral land.
At the very center of the Wilds is a large flat plane of grass and at its center is a massive stone table.
(Map to come)
Thomas Book: Fae Courts
Frost Giants serve the realm of Winter and Queen Mab.
Fauns (shown here in armor) are a combination of a human torso and goat legs. They serve Aurora's court of Spring.
Centaurs follow the Court of Summer and are generally considered her front-line troops when it comes to defending the borders of her lands.
Satyrs are the followers of Oberton and the Autumn Court.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Thomas Book: Book Lists
Here is a more up to date list of the books for the Thomas Book series:
1. The Curse of the Jade Dragon. Click here for updated blog post.
2. The Phantom Gate Click here for updated blog post.
(Ideas)
3. The Evermore
4. The Winter Rose
The Templar's GoldWhen a Knights Templar artifact is recovered from Jerusalem with an inscription that takes Thomas on a journey to the Middle East, England, Scotland and eventually back to his own city of New York. Sword-wielding modern Templars? Greedy industrialists who want the treasure for themselves? Sword fights on zepplins over New York? Definitively.
The Temple of the Skull
When Rick Hunter, Thomas' long-time friend and guide, sends him a letter asking for help - you know that things have gone wrong. As quickly as he can, Thomas heads into South America to find his friend. Ancient tombs. Bloody sacrifices. Last-minute rescues.
1. The Curse of the Jade Dragon. Click here for updated blog post.
2. The Phantom Gate Click here for updated blog post.
(Ideas)
3. The Evermore
4. The Winter Rose
The Templar's GoldWhen a Knights Templar artifact is recovered from Jerusalem with an inscription that takes Thomas on a journey to the Middle East, England, Scotland and eventually back to his own city of New York. Sword-wielding modern Templars? Greedy industrialists who want the treasure for themselves? Sword fights on zepplins over New York? Definitively.
The Temple of the Skull
When Rick Hunter, Thomas' long-time friend and guide, sends him a letter asking for help - you know that things have gone wrong. As quickly as he can, Thomas heads into South America to find his friend. Ancient tombs. Bloody sacrifices. Last-minute rescues.
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