Rayana is running towards the Ohkan Gate, the oldest of the exterior Great Gates to Al’Rashad. The Okhan Gate was built in 221 NB and has not been rebuilt (as most of the other gates have over time), in part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And so concludes the penultimate chapter of our little fantasy epic. Book Eight is the endgame, which I eagerly anticipate. Elsewhere, we’ve been discussing art upgrades for the collected edition, so perhaps if you haven’t seen those already, you might […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What is popularly called “the Gundring Navy” is in fact the sum of the military fleets of all families represented in the Korrthing. It is not centrally organized and for mass excursions and operations relies heavily on direction from the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rather than a trivia tidbit about the world this week, a note – I first wrote the initial draft of Al’Rashad (as a screenplay, at that time) back in 2000-2002, before and after 9/11, and one of the things I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gundring cannon are at this point nearly a century old, predating the Vjort mortar by almost ninety years. The first true heavy gunpowder weapons in the world (Karabokoran flowerfires are generally considered only recreational entertainments despite some deadly accidents), cannon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Heimdar Fettel’s jarldom is centred in Peot, the largest of the great Gundring mining cities and home to the famed Peot Engineering Academy, which has birthed many of the major advances in Gundring design over the past two centuries.
Rashadi carpeteers traditionally run escort flights in teams of five in order to maximize odds of safe delivery of passengers. Their peak was in NB 121, when they had a sixty-three percent safe delivery rate. To zoom, click here.
Only Gundring heroes are given pyres; King Joric, Alric’s father, was a widely loved king and a pyre was his rightful reward. A cairn is more common for Gundring nobility; commoners typically have sea burials.
The Vjort mortar is the brainchild of Svenson Vjort, a miner in the Peotjrad Mountains, who was trying to invent a way to remotely blast the sides of escarpments. The true genius of the Vjort is not that it is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rashadi carpetmaking was discontinued (on a flying basis) during the reign of the Sixth Prophet; although never condemned by the Prophet as such, several prominent clerics suggested that flight was “a means to rise above our earthly station” and general […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
