Category Archives: Mists of Albion

What Does Your World Do For a Living?

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Aramithius

There’s quite a lot of fuss in fantasy fandoms about “high” and “low” fantasy, with a great deal of time and trouble going into working out exactly what high fantasy or low fantasy is, and their various characteristics. One of … Continue reading →

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Death to the Common Tongue: Telling stories with language in fantasy fiction

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Aramithius

Most of the fantasy genre these days use constructed languages, to an extent. This may be as brief as the names of people and places (sometimes not even that), or as fully-fledged as a language with grammar and vocabulary. But … Continue reading →

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Mystery, Metaphor and Metamorphosis: A Mists of Albion Creation Myth

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Aramithius

I’ve been reading various parts of the Elder Scrolls literary corpus of late, thanks to my new Kindle. And I love their writing style, particularly the way the truth is obfuscated and multiple perspectives presented. I’ve done some work on … Continue reading →

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A First Attempt… and Content Resumed!

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Aramithius

I’m back from a relatively long hiatus caused by holidays and the like, but mainly moving house and getting a new job. But also the fact that I’m constantly saying “I’m going to write X piece”, and then never doing … Continue reading →

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World Dynamics on Albion

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Aramithius

As promised last week, I’ve got an entry lined up to discuss the world and weather dynamics of the Mists of Albion setting. And it’s going to take the form of an in-universe treatise by a scholar, and potentially an out-of-universe … Continue reading →

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Thinking Outside the Globe when Creating Worlds

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Aramithius

I’ve taken to A Game of Thrones with a vengeance lately, and it’s a great board game as well as a great story. The characterisation is some of the best I’ve seen in fantasy novels, and thanks to it being a mostly … Continue reading →

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Putting the Magic into Character Creation

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Aramithius

OK, so the new two-posts-a-week thing has yet to take off. I’m putting it down to moving a load of my girlfriend’s stuff during a move. Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. I’ve begun reading A Game of … Continue reading →

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Does a story tell anything in the telling?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Aramithius

In my browsing across the blogsphere, I’ve come across this post on “narratology” from the Urban Archives blog. It’s extracts from a book that discusses the central point of narratology as the contention that “stories, or more properly their narrative component, … Continue reading →

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The Mists Clear… Exploring a Polarised Fantasy Cosmology

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Aramithius

I’ve been muttering about writing some notes for the Mists of Albion cosmology I’ve been developing with a friend for a while (he’ll also start contributing some things to this blog as Hypersleeper, so watch this space!), and I think it’s about … Continue reading →

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Why do people ignore the magic of marshes?

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Aramithius

This blog comes to you from a position of slight existential uncertainty; I’ve discovered that there is another current blog called Crucible of Words, tied directly to Magic: the Gathering. I may at some point change it. I’m currently chewing over … Continue reading →

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