Otherworldly Historian

@diving-into-the-future

I don’t have much time at the moment but I will pop in to say hi and welcome back

@felicity
I have not but will have to look into it

@booksandbeakers

Hello,

Im Folith-Feolin a board game playing and trivia absorbing nerdy public high school dude.

I have recently begun developing a new WIP that could be classified as a steampunk lovecraftian mystery. I also have been helping my brother with his Grimdark The Karvia Legendarium (I mostly help with planning and am writing the…[Read more]

I would highly suggest watching the great war WWI week by week

this is the link to season 1

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga

@starofthenorth

I believe that they have a website located at https://americanindian.si.edu/

@sarafini

are you sure you want to write an autobiography?

Autobiography are about yourself and cover everything in your life up to the point of writing

There are also

memoirs which are about a specific point in your life

biographies which are about other people

also you could write a fictional version of one of these were you just write…[Read more]

@everyone

It would be perforable if we keep any incoming Harry Potter debate on the other KOTLC forum (that way we don’t take over both)

@whalekeeper
Thanks

I was scared I would be too crazy also I have always wanted to write one of those things like on common sense media. I do believe I got carried away though.

@felicity
magic in Harry Potter is a bloodline thing (if you remember/know biology it’s basically a Recessive trait) therefore I never thought it would make someone want to do magic as they would know they don’t magic same as kotlc won’t make you try to be an elf because your not an elf or stormlight wont make you try to be a knight radiant becau…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

The stormlight archive

Genre high fantasy* (see the astride below for my rating guid)

so the Stormlight Archive is Brandon Sandersons Magnum Opus. (Sanderson is a popular fantasy author who popped up in the news a lot in 2022 when he raised 15.4 million on Kickstarter (a crowd funding site) in order to release 4 extra books he…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

I agree that I don’t understand the not reading Harry Potter thing especially with Marvel which in Wanda Vision there is a literal Salem Witch and the Necronomicon (look this up but be cautioned it pertains to Lovecraft Horror) Also the magic words are literally just Latin words but with some letter changed. In addition in Harry Pot…[Read more]

Thanks

@lightoverdarkness6

@arien

Thanks for your support

I got it working It turns out the battery in the key is almost dead so you kind of have to hold it right next to the start button to make it start

(I guess my time helping out the build team during robotics actually is useful (I normally do programming)

@godlyfantasy12

the thing is when you think about it most of the elf powers are not that original and the magic system is not complicated. Also the elves in Tolkien do have biases just in different ways.

@arien

I wish I were in your position right now. Im trying to figure out how to fix a car (It wont start at the moment)

@Idon’tknowwhototag

A fun name meaning:

one of my characters is named Devian Tux

Devian – a slight change from Debian Linux the computer software my favourite computer runs on

Tux – the Linux mascot name

@starofthenorth
Im not saying that breaking rules are okay just that if you read books in that genre you should prepare for that kind of thing to show up

Also Harry Potter increased the use of this trope tremendously within the fantasy school genre