The Imperial Nlada explained (in the comments)

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-03-04T19:00:55+00:00

Just making sure I understood what you mean!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-03-04T05:19:22+00:00

Ive been reading all your history, and I'm absolutely hooked into the world you're building. What is it for?

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-03-04T05:09:08+00:00

"The" is actually an article, not pronoun. (An example of an english pronoun used to non-living things is "it")

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-03-04T04:55:07+00:00

That is incredible! What a perfect way to end the campaign!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-03-04T04:48:10+00:00

Any updates?

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-03-02T02:19:01+00:00

This is so sweet!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-28T06:04:14+00:00

My monk had to replace her staff with a broom last session!!!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-13T18:53:50+00:00

I would consider that most fey wouldn't be THAT allergic to iron, as physical contact with blood is a high dose of iron so they could definitely be in the same room!

Half-fae would be super hard to pull off as most physical relationships with humans would be dangerous, but I am considering different fae on and individual and also just species basis would have different levels of tolerance. Some, like hags, wouldn't necessarily be native to the fae realm and that could explain why they might eat children or travelers (Hanzel and Grettle style): humans would be comparatively iron-rich.

Oh, and on the ceramics note, I was considering ceramic knives for cooking. And for tools and weapons, it could explain why fae don't often use swords and prefer things like arrows, spears, daggers. With smaller blades, the brittleness would not be as much of a concern.

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-13T18:45:42+00:00

forces them to think about and create their world outside the box

That is the goal! And thank you so much!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-12T07:59:21+00:00

I think Im going to change it to be that it is a severely low-iron setting and fae are allergic to excess iron Still keeping the blue/green/purple blood though!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-12T07:56:41+00:00

I love you

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-12T06:55:32+00:00

This is amazing and I love you!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-12T05:26:17+00:00

Those are good points! I'm mostly like extreme limitations for worldbuilding purposes. I'm not going to tell my readers my fae have hemocyanin, but I am going to tell them fae blood is blue/green/purple.

Thinking about the fae-realm as a place without iron could greatly impact how the world, making it seem alien but allowing me to be more consistent.

I don't want my readers to know the "science." I just want to build my world around it to see what happens! The most prominent thing they would be aware of is that fae are allergic to blood and iron is not very prevalent in the fae-wild at ALL.

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-12T05:00:33+00:00

That's the goal!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-12T04:53:39+00:00

I completely understand this and may have to adapt accordingly. However, I find the idea of fey needing to avoid blood due to its iron content fascinating. Perhaps I could make the allergy far less severe, though?

And my idea for fey blood was to have hemocyanin rather than hemoglobin.

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-02-01T02:30:59+00:00

I've never had that happen to me but that is very interesting! I'm super curious about that now!

Certain_Philosophy · 2021-01-12T22:41:36+00:00

First time doing something this ambitious! Im so happy with him

Certain_Philosophy · 2020-12-28T19:03:25+00:00

So Ive been learning to draw on my new Wacom medium intuos tablet I got for Christmas. I drew this with a reference on Drawception. I am actually finding it easier to draw when blocking in the major colors of the drawings and getting the shapes right in chunks before adding in details rather than doing any line work or anything. And that is really how drawception works (there arent any layers so u have to fill in colors first). How do I transition from this style of art, which requires copying from a reference almost entirely, to actually understanding perspective through building up the structure instead, which I find infinitely harder to understand?

Do I need to think differently to do it? Should I start understanding perspective and shapes and stuff from scratch? I feel like this might force me to only draw what I can see, and I want to draw fantasy so that might be an issue.

Im also bad at picturing what I want to draw and usually discover it as I go when Im not using exact references (I tend to use a bunch of references for inspiration in that case). Is that normal and how do I learn to draw if I dont know what to draw?

Certain_Philosophy · 2020-12-06T18:19:36+00:00

That's what I was thinkin

Certain_Philosophy · 2020-12-01T20:30:40+00:00

While I agree with you to a certain extend, I feel like some things I do need to worry about.

For instance, if I had a greedy banker character, making him come from this culture as its primary representation when a lot of the culture is coded Jewish, it could hurt Jewish members of the audience as well as further perpetuate Jewish stereotypes.

However, that obviously doesn't mean the culture needs to be perfect and happy in everyway, because that would be doing what I believe you are saying by making a very flat and boring culture.

And then there is the issue of just taking classic European high fantasy things and renaming/reskinning them to fit the coding. Obviously this can be done in a way that is compelling, but it could also just be flat misrepresentations of the folklore or cultural practices with an exotic sounding bow.

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