#WIPSnips #Redspinet Maybe it's a stretch, but in a magitech world, science doesn't really come up as a concept. So instead have a bit with knowledge (the only synonym I had) that's about the science of oppression.

#Febchantment #Redspinet Most of the cast in book 1 (and all the books in this series in all honesty) can use magic. But the main cast: Fira (MC): Uses aether practically as a healer. But their real magic comes from the fragment of Vortanor in them. They can feel escalation points before...

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet The Xopis Empire is at its core a dictatorship posing as a monarchy. There are councils and power groups, but they exist mostly to advice, compete, and take blame. Any real authority stays strictly with the sovereign.

#WIPSnips #Respinet No billow, but I do have swell.

One of my current WIPs is a school of magic duology. It takes place in a highly stratified society. Only the Right People can get into the College. If a student accidentally kills someone, they'll get expelled and will have to pay for the funeral.

#Febchantment day 17 WIP 1: It varies by country. Most countries place an age limit on when one can start learning it due to the danger. It’s often taught only at a university level. The 7 Empires is unique in teaching people as young as 9 years old but thats because-

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet Empire courts don't exist to find the truth. They exist to make outcomes look legitimate. THere are no juries. Verdicts come from appointed adjudicators who answer upward, not outward. A "trial" feels like an audit. The real question is rarely "did you do it"...

#Febchantment #Redspinet 1/? Another long post because there's a lot here: Law and magic are intrinsically tangled because aether is everywhere. Most people can do small, practical aether work, cleaning grime off tools, warming a cup, sealing a tear in cloth, nudging a stubborn latch. ...

#WIPSnips #Redspinet 2 for 1 on the word today. Some might say that's some great value. 🥁

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet In a local sense, that would be the imperial police and route security. On an empire wide scale, that is the Fliwarn, the empire's very corrupt military force. They are the ones who decide how and when laws apply.

#Febchantment #Redspinet Day 16: I'm back with another two answers. Aether: Aether's power is in its ability to change the rules of the world for a long time. You do something, anything, long enough it can become permanent until someone stronger comes by. Whether that's memory work or wards...

#WIPsnips #Redspinet Poor Fira, having to balance knowing what's coming with wanting to stop it, and having everyone they know and love trust them to stop it.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet I almost never go back and do sunday's (my day off social media) but omg does it and omg do I want to walk about them. I'm going to try to limit this to a thread of 7, but who knows with how I ramble. This will be in no specific order after the Celestial Convergence

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet Right now? Not very easily. They were cut off the same time the gods disappeared. Those selected by the universe for god magic can if/when they use the god magic to the point of full crash. Before the sundering, you could go to temples...

#Febchantment #Redspinet For aether magic, you need aether. Luckily its everywhere, but aether crystals, or anything with aether embedded in it, in order to cast something more powerful, but you better have containment or stabilizer meds at hand. God magic? Nothing, but it comes with...

#WIPSnips #Redspinet Vahl is the antagonist of this novel. He is a captain sent to this village to terrorize them for unknown reasons (to the village he knows why). Fun fact: This is also the only use of the word select somehow.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet Not in this book. But Tarrin borders a lake. It's mentioned a few times. However, a future book is about a water elemental, sort of, and her hometown and the ocean she now lives by plays a large role. I don't have much planned out about that yet though.

#Febchantment #Redspinet This is the first time god magic is used in this series. It's not intentional by any means, but it shows how well it resists aether magic.

#WIPSnips #Redspinet Cw for systemic cruelty and blatant murder of innocents. So turns out, I do not use the word redeem, or any of its synonyms in a way that means redeem. So here is a snippet of the backstory of why Fira needs to redeem themself. Fira isn't a good person, they just want to be.

When I say I create scientific art I mean I’m over here painting 1364 stars by hand as accurately as possible 😅

THREAD: Let’s talk about Roni, the outstanding raccoon mascot of the 1980 Winter Olympics …

Man, a lot of you are not using alt text lately. I see something super interesting that I want to repost, but just don't because the alt text is not there. Also, if you post a screenshot of a news story and don't include a link in the thread or a citation, I am not reposting it.

Sometimes, I realize when people mean fantasy, they mean flowers and fairys and balls. And sometimes they mean, bloody battles, spells being flung, and tearing down the system. Neither are wrong. I just forget that not all fantasy is the same lmao

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet I have one majorly notable forest that is a major landscape in one of the books in this series. I could go on forever about the forest itself (the trees are pink. It's one of the few places divine magic still functions and no one knows why) but, the flora!

#Febchantment #Redspinet So this world started as a d&d homebrew world with one concept: what if the gods disappeared, how would magic work now? From there I really looked at the difference between physical/arcane magic and divine magic. I wanted something, since at this time is was a d&d game,...

#SFFChat A4: This is the closest I've got and it's in an unedited part of my WIP. Weather doesn't change much in Tarrin, so they've figured out how to use weather as code.

#SFFChat A3: Heat is where the Empire thrives. Because Aether likes the heat. Aether makes the heat. The hotter it is, the more Aether is in the air, the more spells can be cast. In the badlands, there are veins in the sand of red glass from Aether discharges as the air got too hot.

#SFFChat A1: Not in the book I am currently writing, but in book 2 yes. That book takes place in the Ethereal Summit. Which for having a nice name is a very miserable place. It is now a prison mine that the mc of that book gets sent to after an invention of his explodes. This is one of the few...

#SFFChat intro: Hi, I am Aspen, I think I had 12 wips last time I counted? All my questions will be for my Redspinet series though, which is a 7 book series following 6 mcs as they realize they are the next stop in a war against the gods that everyone thinks ended 700 years ago.

#WIPSnips #Redspinet I didn't have "sixth" but I did have 4 "six."

#Febchantment #Redspinet Anyone and everyone can wield aether. It's very rare to be actually trained in its use for specific spells, mainly only the government, military, and crime syndicates ever bother with that. But anyone could figure out how to use it. And you see that in a...

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet Yes. Much of the empire is now in a desert due to industrialization.

#WIPSnips #Redspinet I love Hosk. He's one of the characters that has changed the most since his first iteration. He was originally a Bleakburn (a nearby city) police officer turned rebel. I ended up giving that to Fira (mostly) and he comes from a hidden village that still worships...

#Febchantment #Redspinet Again there's two: physical magic. It exists physically in the world. This is aether. You can hold it (you shouldn't though) casting spells is physically pulling aether from the air (or crystals) and making it do what you want. This is why bodies react so badly to it.

#worldbuilders #Redspinet 1/4 Oh do I! Each post on this thread will be a different variation of the map

#WIPSnips #redspinet Context: Fira has just pleaded with the council to do something about the military in Tarrin and they just said "no" pretty much. So they're pissed and one of the councilors has the audacity to come up and threaten them casually.

i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero

Hello friend. Don’t give up.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet I am not beating the basic fantasy allegation. It's a world with two continents. Most of the story takes place on one continent, but in the final book they will travel another for at least a little bit. But there's also 6 divine realms the characters go to.

#Febchantment #Redspinet 1/ Yes and Yes. Using aether magic has very hard rules and consequences. There's only so much aether, using it slowly kills you, only certain things can be done. Have a piece of a god in you? Magics a little less defined. You used inherent magic (I don't have a term...

I love “perish”, but I apparently have not…used it at all…in any of my WIPs, so we’re going with vibes from Something Familiar. #WIPSnips

Marco has been trying to avoid a key part of Jolene's situation: in order to be reincarnated, you have to die first ... (ft. "your birthmarks show fatal injuries in a past life" folklore) #wipsnips

#WIPSnips #Redspinet Context: Tarrin is being invaded by the empire's own military and they've cut them off form all supply routes all while bringing in their own fresh food and medicine. Overtime is another term for your body being used for labor after death.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders So originally I used World Anvil because this world was being used for a d&d game. When that became too cost prohibitive I kinda let the world fall to the wayside while working on other novels. I searched for a while for another online system that was similar because I was...

#WIPSnips #Redspinet Closest I have is "teach/taught" There's not much in the way of formal education in the empire, so I was torn between this slice of life scene and one where Fira and Hosk are talking about how systemic violence exists to teach people where to stand and walk.

Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).

#januaryWorldbuilders At this point? Not much. But I have done a lot of research into radiation poisoning, water poisoning, invasion tactics. But I have been working on this world for 4ish years now I think (maybe 5)?

#JanuaryWorldbuilders I have them on my calendar (not strict, just to test myself) jan-feb book 1 of this series ma editing To Spell A Sacrificed Heart apr-may book 2 Jun editing An unnamed fantasy mysters jul-aug book 3 Sept Editing Gilded Essence Oct-nov book 4 Dec Editing unnamed vamp/werewolf

Here's Fion telling off Joric for treating her like a damsel in distress. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FantasySky #GasLamp #TimeTravel

#WIPSnips #Redspinet 1/2 After Fira's apprentice is executed for stealing some medication, Vahl doesn't believe that Fira had nothing to do with it. So he uses magic to try to extract the memory and information.