Gods of Egaar: Viltrix

On 12th Jun 202030th Dec 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Gods, World of Egaar, Worldbuilding3 Comments

Welcome to the Egaan Pantheon. Here I will delve into the details of my various gods. I will attempt to provide background, descriptions and interesting tidbits to hopefully give you a better insight into the World of Egaar.

A few months ago I presented a document I referred to as my Godmaker Manuscript. I have been using this over the last year to revamp the pantheon of my world – Egaar. Below I present one of these gods; Viltrix, the God of Storms, Thunder and the Hunt.

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Illustration Inspiration: Deals with Daemons

On 10th Jun 20208th Jun 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

So this post has been a long time coming. I have always believed that illustrations are a massive inspiration to my writing, imagination and creativity. Its easy for you to picture what you are writing about in your head, but it is hard to convey those images into somebody else’s mind. I believe that illustrators harbour a great power in this regard and it is them who have the power to conjure the images from our pages and bring them into focus for others to experience for themselves.

In an attempt to experiment in doing this I decided to send an extract from one of my stories to a close friend and illustrator – Natasha Harris. I asked her to simply read the extract and provide me with an illustration of the scene based only on her perspective on what she read. I provided very little in regards to the context of the piece and only gave slight guidance with regard to minor clarifications.

Below are the results of this endeavour.

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #7 (PART 2)

On 8th Jun 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder. Today I give you another weekly wittering in which I will be taking on a worldbuilding prompt and attempting to use it to delve into different aspects of my world – Egaar. I will be freewriting a lot of my responses and they will hopefully provide me with new, useful information about Egaar and its people. Hope you enjoy!

Prompt #7 – What are the worst jobs in your world? (PART 2)

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #7 (PART 1)

On 7th Jun 20208th Jun 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Prompt #7 – What are the worst jobs in your world? (PART 1)

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #6

On 17th May 20208th Jun 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn BestiaryLeave a comment

Prompt #6 – What ancient creatures of your world have been mythologised into fiction and legend?

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #5

On 8th May 20206th Jun 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Food1 Comment

Prompt #5 – What curries exist in your world?

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #4

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Prompt #4 – Tell me about one of your secondary character’s back story

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #3

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Prompt #3 – Tell me about the street food in your world.

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #2

On 3rd Apr 20203rd Apr 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn World of Egaar, WorldbuildingLeave a comment

Evening all! Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder. Today I give you another weekly wittering in which I will be taking on a worldbuilding prompt and attempting to use it to delve into different aspects of my world – Egaar. I will be freewriting a lot of my responses and they will hopefully provide me with new, useful information about Egaar and its people. Hope you enjoy!

Prompt #2 – What unique flora exist in your world?

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The Makings of Nobility: How to create noble houses

On 31st Mar 2020 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Worldbuilding3 Comments

Have you ever wondered how people create the noble houses of their worlds? Ever wondered how G R R Martin created the Lannisters, the Starks or the Greyjoys? I have.

So as a follow up to my Godmaker Manuscript I have decided to share with you the method I have employed over the last few weeks to create the nobles of my world – My charters of nobility.

It isn’t a perfect model and there are some things that perhaps do not apply to every noble house. But I think it is a useful framework to have as a guideline for different things you might think about when creating noble houses.

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