Bro that's not lore, that's trash they didn't clean up before their rushed release schedule. One of the prime reasons I just don't engage with Souls lore communities is the level of reaching that goes on with material not actually presented to the player as part of the experience.

Join apothecary Sepp and paladin Casimir as they descend into the seedy underbelly of the Free City of Farhaven in the FREE 38th chapter of The Path of Poison! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/the-path-o... #Fantasy #Writing #WebSerial #IndieAuthor #SelfPub

#AwesomeCharacters Carloman will overpay for things or do magical stuff as service (another way of obtaining goods here!) whenever he can, he won't bargain. Every price sounds good to him. He always seems to have just a little more coin or leaf on him than necessary. I think he's conjuring it.

New Path of Poison chapter out later on, finally getting into some STUFF

There's been a few places I've considered submitting work to who love to tout how anti-AI writing they are but seem to have no qualms using and reusing genslop images constantly. Same for musicians with slop album art. Consider respecting all human artistic endeavour you spineless fucks.

✨ New Substack ✨ The archives are opening 📜✨ Book 3 is officially underway Set 19 years later—beyond a wall dividing magic from non-magic—a night circus travels Ulli… and people leave changed. Sharing process + lore as I draft ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/archives... #WriteSky #FantasyReaders

Forgot to post these chaps. They see everything in the labyrinth, are actually pretty harmless but tough, and can be asked a question in exchange for a piece of random treasure. They're completely honest, too, so don't worry. #Art #MyArt #Fantasy #FantasyArt #Monsters

#Febchantment In practice, yes. There are many different ideas people have had that all work: magical languages, bundles of potent objects, sigils, absorbing storm power, teleporting through darkness, some very distinct, some riffs on others, some syntheses of multiple ideas. 1/2

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Voerlund: aside from various regional rights and criminal charges decided upon via votes all the way from local burgomasters to highest ranking Knights and Counts, the only law of the whole land is the Lunderman honour system that gently informs people's actions. 1/5

New Path of Poison chapter DONE Sepp and the paladin Casimir are on the hunt for clues and secrets in Farhaven's seedy underbelly...

A movie ever piss you off so much you made an IMDB account just to leave a bad review?

Just cooked up the next new horror trend folks, trust me on this, it's gonna be huge, it'll quickly devolve into derivative, uninteresting slop but hear me out Limewire horror Young people fear the VHS tape, but I fear the mysterious .exe file with a fake .mp3 extension from some scary P2P service

Horror film pitch: lady and her 10 year old son move into a new house built on a neolithic burial ground and get haunted by the ghost of an neanderthal. You might think this will turn into some deep time folk horror but nah it's The Conjuring with a caveman.

! WRONG ASK CHALLENGE TAG ! #FebruaryWorldbuilders answer for today my god im so tired

Forgot to post these chaps. They see everything in the labyrinth, are actually pretty harmless but tough, and can be asked a question in exchange for a piece of random treasure. They're completely honest, too, so don't worry. #Art #MyArt #Fantasy #FantasyArt #Monsters

Couple hours into Black Myth Wukong, is pretty good. It is and isn't a soulslike, it's weird. On the surface? Bonfire-esque checkpoint respawns, how the combat *looks*, low enemy count and lethality, boss presentation, all Dark Souls. But absolutely everything else that actually matters? Unique.

A full length Carloman short story plus two atmospheric dark fantasy flash fiction tales are up for free over at Shadows & Sorcery right now btw shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor #Fantasy #Writing #SelfPub #IndieAuthor #ShortFiction #ShortStories

#Febchantment So I'm kinda at a loss for creepy examples of Demiurge magic, since it's usually absolutely radical wizard fights, but I do have this piece from Shadows & Sorcery No.188's Tomb of the Dark, featuring Carloman vs this world's version of a vampire. Other S&S stories get much creepier.

#Febchantment Oh I get to talk about how time works now👁️👁️ In the Demiurge world, all things persist in some sense. Part and parcel of the whole "make the world as you see fit" deal. The metaphysical structure by which this operates means that past and present exist simultaneously. To elaborate: 1/2

Books, videogames, and art, which I of course still enjoy. Have been critically introverted from a young age and never really desired much company apart from myself, so developing relationships was never a concern.

#Febchantment So I'm kinda at a loss for creepy examples of Demiurge magic, since it's usually absolutely radical wizard fights, but I do have this piece from Shadows & Sorcery No.188's Tomb of the Dark, featuring Carloman vs this world's version of a vampire. Other S&S stories get much creepier.

#Febchantment Oh I get to talk about how time works now👁️👁️ In the Demiurge world, all things persist in some sense. Part and parcel of the whole "make the world as you see fit" deal. The metaphysical structure by which this operates means that past and present exist simultaneously. To elaborate: 1/2

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Had to think about this quite a bit. The actual origin of the world isn't known, kept secret by design. Whether this was a good idea or not is debatable. As for what various cultures believe, I'm tempted to say their origin stories are pretty vague... 1/3

824 words of the new Path of Poison chapter done, time for monke

Okay fuck it We monke

Some of Steam reviews and Before You Buy videos gave me a decent idea of what to expect: -Wukong isn't a soulslike, just some souls-y elements, no parry system -Wuchang is a 100% soulslike with some minor mechanical additions and optional parry system I'm still a bit torn but leaning towards monke

Wuchang and Black Myth Wukong are on sale and I'm considering getting them, but I hate parry-centric combat with my entire being, so to anyone who's familiar with these games, which one has less of this?

#Febchantment Have more rambling thoughts on this: a lot of magic going wrong in fantasy seems to be rooted in mechanical terms of energy expenditure, e.g. overloads, radiation, instability. The secularization of magic is both a fascinating modern development and a lessening of the idea imo.

Not that this isn't all dangerous marketing bullshit and circlejerking but the idea of corpos flaunting that they made a brand new sapient lifeform and are publically enslaving and trafficking it should horrify everyone

A full length Carloman short story plus two atmospheric dark fantasy flash fiction tales are up for free over at Shadows & Sorcery right now btw shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor #Fantasy #Writing #SelfPub #IndieAuthor #ShortFiction #ShortStories

#Febchantment Hot take ahead: I'm not the biggest fan of "magic hurts you/drives you mad/etc". Demiurge magic follows a certain logic and has no rules to break, so the real danger is someone actually pulls something off but due to a lack of focus, muddled intent, or arrogance, it goes too right. 1/2

#AwesomeCharacters They tend to develop organically over time, I start with a character concept (Conan but wizard, swordsman with spectral arm, very tired guard who keeps getting promotions) and a personality will generally emerge from that and/or their situations.

Spent the night making logos for a non-existent dungeon synth project named Mosscaller, which one do we like most? All made with out-of-the-box fonts in Affinity Designer (Ignore the pseudo-Chinese talisman in the bottom right)

I’m opening a few spots on my read team for upcoming releases 👀✨ If we’ve chatted, or you’ve been following my fantasy world through the various writing prompts, I’d love to have you apply and read these stories early 🖤💫 Details/sign-up here:
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Det är TrollkarlsTorsdag den tolfte, hög tid att gardera oss inför morgondagen

Spent the night making logos for a non-existent dungeon synth project named Mosscaller, which one do we like most? All made with out-of-the-box fonts in Affinity Designer (Ignore the pseudo-Chinese talisman in the bottom right)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Souls are not only real, they're eternal, are where much of the mind resides, and are direct emanations of the spooky scary Godhead given free will so that they might be enslaved. Before the material world, they were basically just hunted and dominated forever. But then... 1/3

#Febchantment Honestly a difficult question...there's no real upper limit, and it's not exactly a popular vocation (what people call magic being relative aside) so the consensus is all over the place throughout history. Can you FLOAT? Can you ask gods directly for help? Both Master Ultrawizards. 1/2

Just remembered my 1969 Whistle and I'll Come to You theory, probably one of the last things I ever did on twitter. As I did then, I need an M.R. James fan to validate me on this one, I think it holds water.

Just gave a small donation to Reggie Bannister, one of the main guys of the wonderfully odd Phantasm series. Wish I could do more. I had no idea he was ill. I'm extremely fond of the movies in all their weirdness and messiness, and Reggie is central to it. gofund.me/16f06a2cc

You thought I forgot #WizardWednesday but it was you who were late, I was here the whole time taking care of my very large and shiny mote of light (art: i dunno can anyone tell me?)

List your beast knowledge, chooms rose.systems/animalist I got 103 animals listed (it replaces vague ones with specifics if you mention them) and gives you an emoji summary 😸🐩🦬𓆈𓆏🐍🐜🕷🦟𓆣🐄🐐🐏🐴🦒🦏🦛🦌🦍🦧🐙🐌🐻🐻‍❄️🐻🫍🐋🐟🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🪱🐟🦔🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦🐦‍⬛🐦𓅪🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🦩🐦𓅣🐯🦁𓃸🐸🪱🪱🦀🦞🦐🪲🐛🪳🫏🦓𓃷𓆊🦎🐺🦅🐦𓅃🐦

#Febchantment Technically, absolutely nothing at all. The only things stopping people are time to do stuff, materials to experiment with, and energy! Not everyone can find the opportunity in the world they live in. But that's the trick of it. The world that's been formed...by people. 1/3

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Yes, and it must, at all costs. Free will is the bedrock of the material world. Interesting to note: everything that happens to a person remains through reincarnations, little bits may carry over between lives, but nothing that would ever lead to any predetermination. 1/2

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Yes, and it must, at all costs. Free will is the bedrock of the material world. Interesting to note: everything that happens to a person remains through reincarnations, little bits may carry over between lives, but nothing that would ever lead to any predetermination. 1/2

#Febchantment Technically, absolutely nothing at all. The only things stopping people are time to do stuff, materials to experiment with, and energy! Not everyone can find the opportunity in the world they live in. But that's the trick of it. The world that's been formed...by people. 1/3

NO ONE Carloman was too busy achieving enlightenment. He's never been with anyone and never will. His first and only love is the world and its people, for whom he will do anything. Sepp from The Path of Poison will end up similar for Reasons. That boy's got a weird future ahead of him.

This movie fuckin rocks. The 70s and 80s were the peak age of Hong Kong martial arts cinema, but the 90s produced a number of particularly slick gems like this bad boy here. More comedy than kung fu, but it's funny as hell and when there are fights? Satisfying and stylish. Big recommend.

LET IT BE WRIT UPON THY MEAGRE GRAVE FELLED BY KING MORGOTT LAST OF ALL KINGS

About 20 minutes into King of Beggars (1992) and yep it's a kung fu movie kinda night