Am hoping the Dragon Addendum will get colored. It is a part of the Notable Civilization's.

Why are every single one of them so CUTE?

zer0dust said:
Rule of thumb about writing.

Even though it's over done, always highlight the short comings of your races, doing so in the short term immediatly connects your audience to the conflict.

I used to write my humans as weak, but depicted them as wasteful and overwhelming, the reason was because it was a feed back loop, other creatures try wiping them out for being wasteful, but that only compelled humanity to build better devices and spread faster, they were weak, and everyone knew it to stop them, but it turned out that compelled humanity to build faster and better machines and devices to fight back, to the point they were the dominant race, doing very poorly thought out shit, and ruining the world more, resulting in other races seeing them as wasteful and trying to wipe them out.

By highlighting their weaknesses you connect the audience to the conflict, by highlighting majesty instead of strife first leading to rumination.

It helps the writer retain an audience, the audience retain attention, and attention reatain to the world, allowing it to be properly developed by the writer.

And the cycle starts anew.

Twokinds has been on the web for almost 18 years, Tom's pulling almost $9000 a month on Patreon. I think he's all set for writing. :)

Wasn't there also that in-world tale the Keidran tell where Humanity arrived to the land via ship and were illiterate, which implies Humans are originally from another Continent and there's potentially many more out there in the world. I wonder what the implication of that would be for the Keidran.

zer0dust said:
Rule of thumb about writing.

Even though it's over done, always highlight the short comings of your races, doing so in the short term immediatly connects your audience to the conflict.

I used to write my humans as weak, but depicted them as wasteful and overwhelming, the reason was because it was a feed back loop, other creatures try wiping them out for being wasteful, but that only compelled humanity to build better devices and spread faster, they were weak, and everyone knew it to stop them, but it turned out that compelled humanity to build faster and better machines and devices to fight back, to the point they were the dominant race, doing very poorly thought out shit, and ruining the world more, resulting in other races seeing them as wasteful and trying to wipe them out.

By highlighting their weaknesses you connect the audience to the conflict, by highlighting majesty instead of strife first leading to rumination.

It helps the writer retain an audience, the audience retain attention, and attention reatain to the world, allowing it to be properly developed by the writer.

And the cycle starts anew.

The Races shortcomings are told through subtle exposition and plot developments throughout the story as you read. Humans are Magically gifted and "long lived", but they have a superiority complex and a lust for power. There's also the rampant Slave Trade going on.

The way the female canine keidran and the male human look at each other.... hmmmst...

noveltwin said:
Wasn't there also that in-world tale the Keidran tell where Humanity arrived to the land via ship and were illiterate, which implies Humans are originally from another Continent and there's potentially many more out there in the world. I wonder what the implication of that would be for the Keidran.

From what I recall, both sides had their own version of the story. The Keidran claimed that the humans were idiots who had no idea how to survive and needed the Keidran's help, the humans claim that it was the Keidran who were doing poorly and had the humans help them. I think a later update then revealed that both were embellishing the story and the truth was somewhere in the middle.

The Races shortcomings are told through subtle exposition and plot developments throughout the story as you read. Humans are Magically gifted and "long lived", but they have a superiority complex and a lust for power. There's also the rampant Slave Trade going on.

Wasn't it revealed that it wasn't just the humans who engaged in slavery though, and that the wolves do it too?

savach said:
The way the female canine keidran and the male human look at each other.... hmmmst...

I still say Meh to this and instead point out how the cat is checking out the basitin.

asmodea said:
I still say Meh to this and instead point out how the cat is checking out the basitin.

hes looking at the lions and the lioness is looking away

Feline Clan and Cat Clan......? That made my brain hurt! 😑

sniperjoe13 said:
Feline Clan and Cat Clan......? That made my brain hurt! 😑

They're both technically feline, but their particularly big differences may set them aside.

I wonder how often people keep around a cat clan member as a pet/lover...

burner640 said:
I wonder how often people keep around a cat clan member as a pet/lover...

If they are a pet they are probably a spy.
If they are a lover... the non cat clan race is most likely in jail for... certain reasons.

>'' 'interrelation' between them and the other keidran would obviously be.. problematic.''

''Life, uh, finds a way.''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjQ3hA9mEA

Biased Cat Clan supremacy