Devin's Twentieth Birthday Tour

Published November 6, 2009 05:02 AM

In honor of Devin’s twentieth birthday he’s going on a tour… of Sela’s cottage. 

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Maps of Man and Britain

Published May 3, 2009 09:14 AM

Due to recent developments in the story, I thought it might be worth putting up some maps to help everyone understand the geopolitical situation. (Oooh look Ma, I’m writing a story with a geopolitical situation! )

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Egelric’s castle Sceadwung-clif: Upper Floors

Published January 17, 2009 06:21 AM

We’ve already seen the exterior and ground floor of Egelric’s castle, so today we’re going to finish it off. Looking at it nearly 2 years later, my castle-​​building techniques have improved (or at least changed) so much it seems like a candidate for a rebuild, but even if I do, it will preserve roughly the same floorplan. Maybe we can even compare before & after shots someday.

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Tour of Malcolm and Iylaine's House

Published December 16, 2008 05:31 PM

Devin has asked a couple of times about Malcolm and Iylaine’s house, so the easiest way to answer seems to be a quick tour.

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Tour of Osh's Barn

Published January 31, 2008 09:06 PM

I’m too tired to work on a chapter tonight, so now’s a great time to give you a “before” tour of Osh’s new house – before Flann gets her decorating hands on it, and Osh starts painting.

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Photos of Lothere

Published April 8, 2007 07:05 AM

We have seen some of the disadvantages of attempting to locate my story in a real location. One of the advantages is that the valley and its landmarks really exist, in a fashion. Therefore, keeping in mind that the distances are four times as they appear, I can show you some “photos of Lothere”.

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Maps of Lothere

Published April 7, 2007 10:59 PM

Devin has unwittingly reminded me that I have been wanting to put up some maps of Lothere.

First of all, where is Lothere? We know it’s in Britain, and I hope it’s clear that it’s in the border country between England and Scotland – which border was frequently changing at this time period. I have also hinted that it’s west of Northumbria. And, for the serious detectives, I have placed it south of Carlisle, since Carlisle was called Leol at that time, and I have mentioned Leol once or twice as being on the way to Scotland.

That’s enough information to put it in the Lake District of northwest England. However, I have been deliberately vague about its exact location, because it is impossible to fit it anywhere in the real world. I’ll tell you the story of how it evolved so you can how I painted myself into this corner.

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Egelric's castle Sceadwung-clif: Ground Floor

Published March 27, 2007 02:53 PM

Now that we have seen the outside of Egelric’s castle, we can have a look at some of the interior.

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Egelric's castle Sceadwung-clif: Exterior

Published March 21, 2007 09:48 PM

Although it was one of the most recent castles to be built in Lothere, Egelric’s castle will be the first of the castle tours, partly because Devin asked for it, and partly because it is my favorite.

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A tour of Kiv's cave

Published March 19, 2007 01:01 PM

Tiana gets a second request granted right away, but since she is starting a new story that may involve caves I wanted to help her out by showing how I built Kiv’s cave. (A story about cave-​​dwelling dwarves?) Hopefully it will interest some of the rest of you.

Unlike most of my lots, Kiv’s cave really is something of a “set” in the Hollywood sense. It is not set up to be a realistic cave (or even a playable lot), but only with story-​​telling in mind. My castles look like real castles, as we shall soon see with Egelric’s, but one can only go so far with cave-​​building in The Sims without resorting to cheats and tricky camera angles.

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