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2009 Reading Wrap-Up

Last year, my wife challenged me to mimic one of her habits. Thus, I kept track of nearly every book I read. I didn’t record or remember books I’d only read pieces of (for research), nor did I record anything I read for hobby and work purposes (like game books from Paizo). I didn’t bother [...]

January 1, 2010 Posted in: Steven Statements, Uncategorized One Comment

Review: Grants Pass

4 out of 5 stars, IMO.
A very well done anthology of stories about a modern apocalypse and the fabled safe haven of Grants Pass, Oregon. The world falls apart due to bioengineered plagues and the chaos that ensues from them. The stories here, like many anthologies, vary in terms of their ability to grab [...]

August 24, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Comments Closed

Kharndam Guide: Brief History

Kharndam: The Ages of Reason
Consider how the day is long to a child awaiting a parent and that is how long history truly reveals a world. Consider how the day is short to a child reveling in play, and that too is how short history spans a world. To view a world through only the [...]

May 2, 2009 Tags: Age of Might, Ages of Reason, Dharual, dragon, Drakereign, Drakesfall, dwarf, Dwarfruin, Elf, Elfrage, fey, Giant, Goblin, Golden Age of Alliance, Great Annals of Vros, Human, Imperam, Lammok, Ornaoth, Orpak, Pegasus Sovereignty, prigam, Progenitors, Rokhal, Shael, shay, Sovereignty, Vros, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Electronic Games, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, Uncategorized, World-Kharndam No Comments

Changes are Coming

They’ll have to wait until after the current deadline and a business trip, but expect big changes here in the next months. I’m planning a major overhaul herein (to make it more accessible and understandable). I’ll take great pains to make sure the blog remains linkable et al. but I’m going to start adding more [...]

March 6, 2009 Posted in: Steven Statements, Uncategorized No Comments

Apologies

This blog hasn’t been as active as I’d like it to be. Chalk it up to a confluence of life and miscellanei that conspired against my setting up a few posts to automatically download. I’ll try and get some short posts up in the next week, but I suspect I’ll have to shoot for creating [...]

March 2, 2009 Posted in: Steven Statements, Uncategorized One Comment

Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part III)

The Low Race Calendars:
Dwarftime (DT), Rhamathreckoning (RR), Drakereckoning (UD/OD), Sovereignty Flight Years (BF/IF/AF), Impramark (IM), and Eaglereckoning (ER)

While there have been more than nineteen major calendars or ways to mark history by the many non-progenitor races, only six have any major relevance or dominant use on Dharual today (even to scholars). While the centaurs of [...]

January 20, 2009 Tags: After Fall, After Flight, Agmarrn, Aurum Alliance, Before Flight, Bheddar, Calendar, Descending Flight, Dharual, dragon, Drakereckoning, Drakereckoning Ornaoth, drives, dwarf, Dwarftime, dwarves, Eaglereckoning, Eagle’s Cry, Eagle’s Path, Eighth Age, Elementime, Erldawning, First Forge Vision, Firstmarch, Flight Years, Graal, Great Throne, Gyrthorn II, Highsummer, Highwing, Imperam, Impraltory, Impramark, Impramense, Imprator, Imprator’s Throne, In Flight, Khiilm, Klath-Urus-Dhor-Solm, Lahax, Lahaxan bloodline, Lastmarch, Lluranal, Low Race, Manthar, marches, Onim, Ornaoth Dragonslayer, Orpak, pegasus, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pralkesh, Rarlhann, rhamathi, Rhamathreckoning, Rokhal, Searle the Pious, smith, Som-Aril-Dhar-Chrys, Sovereignty, Summath, Thrax, Thrax III, Trogulpak, Tsarniot, Tsarnus, Ulach IV, Underdrake, World-Kharndam, wyrm, Xonorhil Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Electronic Games, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, Uncategorized, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

“Honed by Hate”-An Excerpt

I’d hardly seen them enter the tavern, but the fist that knocked me from my seat showed me what I needed to see.
I land hard, kissing the rushes and feeling the frigid stone beneath them. Despite that, I crack a smile far colder than the floor.
Bastard.
I might have accepted this all as bad [...]

December 3, 2008 Tags: Alrok, Green Gazette, Griffin Thomas, John Farnsworth, Malthas, Markisles, Nomar, orkald, Psavorn Guard, Roal, Sorran, Valdon, Valdon the Rebel, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Uncategorized, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam 4 Comments

Kharndam Guide: Human Calendars

There have been many calendars across the continent of Rokhal, but only three are still in common use around the lands of Old Kharndam and the Imperam by the rulers and most peoples.
Draketime: Most follow a common calendar that marks the start at Ornaoth’s slaying of his first dragon—the wyrm Som-aril-dhar-chrys—as Year 1 Overdrake (OD), [...]

November 25, 2008 Tags: Bheddar, Drakereckoning, Flight Years, Guide, Gyrthorn, Imperam, Impramark, Ornaoth, Overdrake, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pralkesh, Rokhal, Ulach, World-Kharndam, Xhonoril Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, Uncategorized, World-Kharndam 2 Comments