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April Content Update: Indirect Wars

Wars are not easy to write, wars in which the two central countries involved aren't actually at war, even more so. This type of conflict, sometimes known as a "proxy" war, is one where the two part...

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April Content Update: The Most Depraved Sicko I Have Ever Met Pt 1

Now. as I'm sure you're all aware by now, I've run into some truly messed-up people over the years: bandit kings with daddy issues, torturers who got off on their work, the kinds of petty tyrants w...

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April Content Update: A Chronicle of the War in the Northwest Pt 2

6/1/Annesouais 25

Your Grace,

This message I have dispatched with the courier from your staff, who I had auspiciously encountered the day before. He had not been able to reach me before...

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March Content Update: Addendum - The Sizes of Some Historical Armies

A Note on Sources: A lot of the armies on this list have multiple sizes attested to them in various sources. For the purpose of this reference, I'll be leaning towards lower estima...

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March Content Update: An Account of the Reach Folk

To the far north, beyond the peaks of the Barazin Mountains, lie a land of icy hillocks and pastures, split by many fast-moving rivers with steep and rocky banks. This is the land of what the Khaza...

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March Content Update: A Chronicle of the War in the Northwest Pt 1

Written on the Third Day of the Fourth Month of the Twenty-Fifth Reign of the Annesouais Emperor.

Your Grace,

I have arrived now in the northern anchor fortification of the Outer Outpos...

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February Content Update: Sizing an Army (Pt 2)

Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics", or so the old saying goes, an admission that victory more often goes to the side which is better organised, better trained, better equipped, ...

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February Content Update: Remember That Time We Killed a Dragon? (Pt 2)

The trip out from Torinhall would have been uneventful if not for one rather inconvenient fact.

You see, when the Duke commissioned us on this quest of his, he made the mistake of announcing ...

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February Content Update: The Khorobirit Papers (Pt 5)

The Khorobirit Papers


5/11/617

Thus, it appears that I have outlived another Tierran King. This one has departed his kingdom in a state so very different from how he inherite...

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January Content Update: Sizing An Army (Pt 1)

Here's a question for you: why were there only 300 Spartans at Thermopylae? According to popular history, this was supposed to be an all-or-nothing battle for the future of the Classical Greek Worl...

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January Content Update: Remember That Time We Killed a Dragon (Pt 1)

REMEMBER THAT TIME WE KILLED A DRAGON?

The strange thing about being on the open road is that you end up thinking about nothing more than the next village or town. You could be the kind of pe...

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January Content Update: On the Adoption of the New Rifle

ON THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW RIFLE

To my Esteemed Master Truscott,

I greet the news of your continued advantageous position with the greatest of joys. With the situation as u...

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Wanted: Topics for Next January

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December Content Update: The Measure of an Empire

How big should your fictional empire be?

That's a question which is actually two questions: a worldbuilding question, and a storytelling question, with the answer to the latter building upon ...

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December Content Update: Farming in the Fledgling Realms

Agriculture in the Fledgling Realms

Despite the many varied cultures of the Fledgling Realms, despite the power of magic, the ingenuity of skilled crafters, and the increasing proliferation o...

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December Content Update: A Regiment Divided - The Red and Blue Lancers

A REGIMENT DIVIDED

or

THE TRUE DISPOSITION OF THOSE BODIES OF FIGHTING MEN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS THE WHITE ROSE LANCERS,

NOW CALLED "RED" OR "BLUE" LANCERS BY VIRTUE OF THEIR ALLEGI...

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November Content Update: Notes on a Crisis Pt 1

NOTES ON A CRISIS

6/2/617

Awoken early today. Case White.

To say that this was completely unexpected would be to lie. There are contingencies in place. There are preparations left...

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November Content Update: Festivals of the Fledgling Realms

FESTIVALS OF THE FLEDGLING REALMS

Montfort Day

Most of the festivals celebrated by the various settlements of the Iron Marches are similar to those which are celebrated in the Concordat...

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November Content Update: Modelling Scale

Sci-Fi and Fantasy writers, quite infamously, have no sense of scale. While the of...

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October Content Update: Subplots Within Plots

I'm not a fan of the word "subplot". To me, the term has always implied a certain unbridgeable divide between the "main progression" of a narrative and those parts which lay outside of it. With tha...

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October Content Update: In Defence of the Tierran Dragoon

A LETTER IN DEFENCE OF THE TIERRAN DRAGOON

By a Confidante of the Gonfaloniere

It has become the fashion in recent years, for men of certain martial pretensions to make comment upon the...

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October Content Update: Creeds and Cults Pt 2

CREEDS AND CULTS PT 2

It ought to come as no surprise that the people of the Island-Cities revere the sea. Indeed, the people of Fiore, Mazzare, Arran, and Isonza owe much of their wealth, sa...

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Topics for October

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September Content Update: Die, Villain!

So far, we've talked about conceptualising our antagonists in a way which would make for a good story, introducing them in a way which hooks your audience, and developing them to fit a broader narr...

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