Unique among the scepters of the Middle Kingdoms, the White Stave has no role in indicating the royalty of the one who holds it. Rather, what virtue it possesses derives from the royal. The first White Stave was made from the wood of the tree under which Héalhra Whitemane rested for the last time in […]
This is a listing of articles/recipes that will be appearing in FOOD AND COOKING OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOMS. This listing is just getting started. More entries are to come. (The cookbook will contain at least the fifty recipes below, as well as a similar number of articles on the general MK food scene.) Recipes and
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askeataiho asked: I just finished reading The Door Into Sunset (which I loved!) I was wondering how marriage works in that world. Does everyone marry everyone else in a marriage with more than two people, or can a person just marry one person of an already married family? The characters seem to treat it as
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There are all kinds of clothing in the Middle Kingdoms, in all kinds of styles and forms, from the ubiqitous smocks, tunics, gowns and breeches that people don for work or casual wear, to the surcoats, doublets, jerkins and tabards worn for ceremony or as livery demonstrating affiliation to one or another ruling or governing
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I was doing some work on Tales of the Five #3: The Librarian the other day, and while dealing with some dialogue, was surprised to catch myself causing one of the characters to say something to one of the others that wasn’t true. Not in the sense of committing fiction, nor in the one-layer-down-the-meta sense
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This is the project status post for The Door Into Starlight, the fourth and final novel in the main Middle Kingdoms character continuity. News about developments in the project will be posted here as events warrant. (Please note that if you bookmarked this page before September 1, 2018 — meaning previous to the server failure
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