FB: Humans think it’s cute how gnomes call themselves “Occupation Name” (often but not always using alliteration). But in many circles, it’s an insult to do this alliteratively to humans, whether their stated “job” is something perfectly innocent or not: “Municipalist […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
FB: Watcher in the weeds, behold these evil deeds… and bluster, meet duster. I think I (foolishly) believed that Flo would stick to my policy of calling Keynes “Commander Keynes” from now on. It makes some sense from a character perspective, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
FB: Brock cleans while Keynes gleans. The backstory of Bullshitter (nee Bricklayer) Brock is that he was a con artist, compelled to it the way Commander (nee Carrier, later Bandit) Keynes was compelled to thievery. We couldn’t work too much of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chrissie’s pairing off with Xan is, I hope, one of those developments that surprises you at first and then you go, “Oh, yeah, that makes sense.” The difference in their worldviews is clear: trusting optimist, distrustful pessimist. But they’ve respected […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This may be belaboring the obvious (always a risk with these annotations), but one of the strengths of Sepia World is that it lets us show violence through a different lens than in Arkerra. Arkerra has occasional nods to violence’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
