Gods of Egaar: Thingol

On 23rd Jan 202611th Jan 2026 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Gods, Religion, World of Egaar, WorldbuildingLeave a comment

Welcome back to the Egaan Pantheon. It’s certainly been a while! In these posts I delve into the details of my various gods. I attempt to provide background, descriptions and interesting tidbits to hopefully give you a better insight into the World of Egaar.

This project came about when I presented a document I referred to as my Godmaker Manuscript. I have been using this over the last year few years to revamp the pantheon of my world – Egaar. It’s been a while since I fully completed one of these templates for my gods but the other two I have published may be found here and here. The inspiration for completing this one came from not only a player in one of my campaigns who plays a cleric of Thingol, but also a student I teach, who plays in another one of my campaigns and is himself, an incredible artist. It’s amazing where inspiration and motivation comes from!

Below I present another one of these gods; Thingol, God of Earth, Ore and Stone.

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Fantasy Short: Adherent

On 31st Oct 2025 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Fantasy Shorts, WorldbuildingLeave a comment

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! Today I am sharing with you a bit of writing I did a couple months back. During some time off, I wanted to have a go at a writing challenge, as I have done so in the past and so took a single word writing prompt and challenged myself to write a short story inspired by it in 2 hours. What follows is the result of that 2 hour session. The word – Adherent.

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Fantasy Short: The Story of the Jackal King

On 24th Oct 202421st Oct 2024 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Fantasy ShortsLeave a comment

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! Today I’m sharing with you another short tale I put together when writing about the werewolves in my world. This tale is inspired by various myths I explored on the internet regarding werewolves across different cultures. It’s a grim and sad tale at times – as they often are, but my world can be a dark place and in many tales of blood and monsters, these creatures are born from cruelty and suffering. This is but one of many.

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Fantasy Short: The Wolves of Cadder

On 20th Oct 2024 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Fantasy ShortsLeave a comment

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! It’s been a long while since my last post, but I have finally gained some time and the inclination to jump back to the blog for a quick jaunt of fiction. Today, I’m getting into the Halloweeny spirit and will be sharing with you a tale of Werewolves from my world. Enjoy!

Nestled in the hilly wilds of the eastern Kheltic States, the river Cadd cuts a deep gorge through the Clydcarreg Hills. Spanning this gorge at its narrowest point, a tall bridge made of aged fieldstone arches across from a stony bluff on the western bank, and down into the grassy foothills on its east. About the western end of the bridge, is clustered a small, fortified town – stout and hardy, with weathered walls and squat towers. This is the town of Cadder.

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A year in Review & 2023 Goals

On 1st Jan 202331st Dec 2022 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Hello all and welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! In this brief post I will provide a quick update for the blog and will outline what to expect in the upcoming year. I will review my goals from last year and will also lay out my goals for 2023 which will hopefully guide my posts and give you an indication of what I would like to achieve this year.

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #15

On 24th Aug 202222nd Aug 2022 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn World of Egaar, Worldbuilding1 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 #15 – Describe a Thieves Guild that exists in your world and what they are up to

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Fantasy Short: The Auction

On 19th Jun 2022 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Fantasy Shorts1 Comment

Fantasy Shorts are back! As part of my continued desire to better my writing ability, I have once again used a writing prompt to inspire myself. I find them to be an excellent source of inspiration and they help to spark my imagination in ways I may never have experienced without them. Thus, I am able to create short scenes of fiction to help bring to life my ideas. What follows is but one of these shorts: The Auction.

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World Lore: Dreams and the Dream Industry

On 12th May 202212th May 2022 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn World of Egaar, Worldbuilding1 Comment

About 3 years ago, I was listening to the BFG audiobook during a long car journey home and got inspired by the idea of dreams being collected by the giant and used to give people pleasant sleep. I really loved the idea of dreams being an actual entity that floats about the world and I decided to try and take this further by developing an entire industry around these dreams! Here’s my take, I hope you enjoy!

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Creating a Religion – Part 2: The Basics of Belief

On 24th Jan 2021 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Gods, Religion, WorldbuildingLeave a comment

Welcome to the second instalment in a multi-part series of posts that will help to take you through the many steps to creating a fully functional, realistic religion for your world. Not all of these instalments will be necessary for everybody and many may simply dip in and out for a bit of inspiration or guidance. This is not meant to be the perfect guide to creating fantasy religions, but I hope that it will provide some in-depth ideas and advice to those interested in doing so. Today, I start to explore what many people consider the core components of a religion and the different ways you can create a pantheon of gods and other deific beings. Future posts will cover other elements as we progress.

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Creating a Religion – Part 1: Why do it? and Where to start?

On 2nd Jan 20211st Jan 2021 By Wittering of a worldbuilderIn Religion, WorldbuildingLeave a comment

Welcome to the first instalment in a multi-part series of posts that will help to take you through the many steps to creating a fully functional, realistic religion for your world. Not all of these instalments will be necessary for everybody and many may simply dip in and out for a bit of inspiration or guidance. This is not meant to be the perfect guide to creating fantasy religions, but I hope that it will provide some in-depth ideas and advice to those interested in doing so. Today, I simply explain my starting point with religion building, why you might want to create a religion for your world and where to start. Future posts will cover other elements as we progress.

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