The complete history of Ialfa, from the sundering of the world, to the discovery of the 'Westlands'.
Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 5071
I thought maybe it would be fun to post a sentance or two of what I had written along with my word count, but I'm finding it very hard to choose what to post, so maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all.
Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word count: 1588
It's a start. 🙂
There is a scene in the movie Slipper and the Rose, in which the Chamberlain explains a few political realities to Cinderella. 'It is not possible that the king give his consent to this marriage'. I loved that scene, and wanted to build a world where I could set romantic fairy tale style stories against a background of reasonably realistic political and cultural situations. But sometimes when you start work on a creative endeavor you discover that it seems to take on a mind of its own.
I decided to create continents by randomly smashing tectonic plates up against each other, and when it came time to start peopling my world, I ended up placing my 'reasonably realistic political and cultural situations' on a landmass the same approximate size and location as our world's Africa. The fairy tale romances I wished to tell became exotic tales of tropical splendor and intrigue.
Keywords: Fantasy, Ialfa, secondary world,
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