A Body Built Differently: Elvish Physiology From the Inside Out
Everyone pictures the ears first. When I started writing elvish biology properly, the ears turned out to be the least interesting…
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Everyone pictures the ears first. When I started writing elvish biology properly, the ears turned out to be the least interesting thing about them. The real differences sit lower down: in the blood, in the bones, in how many cells…
The wind never stops on Oesterheim. It comes off the North Atlantic with a patience that makes elvish patience look hasty, and it was shaping these islands before the elves came, before the Norse came, before anyone came. It doesn't…
The Elvish Wall Movement listed accurate news among its demands. Its activists were tired of reading heavily edited official accounts of their own lives. Fifty years later, Aldermark has one of the busiest presses in Europe: a conservative broadsheet older…
The car ferry from the German island of Sylt runs every hour and takes about fifty minutes. The island comes up slowly through the North Sea haze: flat, green and unremarkable. There is no skyline and no harbour crane, nothing…
The Order of the Calling has the most complicated institutional history in the Empyrea cosmology, and that is saying something given the competition. Founded in 1299 as a standard-issue medieval religious military order (protect pilgrims, defend territory, expel the Moors…
Before the Divine Hierarchy. Before Eo. Before any of the celestial races had settled into the roles they now claim were always theirs, there was a war. The Empyreans call it the Aeon of Ignorance, and the name is doing…