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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 13 - Malrissa's childhood sucked. First, her hometown was destroyed when she was 6 years old, and then she's forced to spend the next decade being trained in the assassination and demon hunting arts by the devil who saved her life, in a dreary town on the frozen northern--

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 13 - Being a major trading hub, the city of Grental has a vested interest in maintaining a clean image to keep that coin coming. Even in North Ward, where the low-income housing resides, the streets and buildings are relatively well-kept, even if they are a bit more scuffed.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 12 - I'm not a big fan of 'drama' in real life, so I tend not to include it in my writing. The only mention I can think of is this snippet, when Malrissa is laid up in the hospital after coming face-to-face with death at the hands of a greater demon. She meets her nurse.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 12 - Grental is very German. As such, when you think of that stereotypical 'German town' look, you've pretty much got the look of it down. Steep triangular roofs, wooden latticework, cobblestone streets, all that fun stuff.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 11 - My WIP trilogy also happens to be my first serious writing project, having been born nearly a decade ago as a means to explain my really convoluted D&D character. Indeed, Malrissa was the start of it all. My 4th Edition Hybrid Warlock/Executioner. Who was absurdly OP.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 11 - Being a major trading hub in southern Isilmar, Grental gets in a LOT of imports. As it's surrounded by water, it's only natural that one of the city's most important major exports is...fish! Hooray! Everyone loves fish!

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 10 - As my first two novels are primarily road trip stories, exploration is all but inevitable. Mostly, the places the party visits are towns and well-known landmarks, but every so often, they happen upon a ruin or a site that has been abandoned or forgotten. Like the--

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 10 - We're all about the town of Grental this week, so its water sources are abundant. The city already rests within a river delta, but the mighty Valen River lies directly upon its western edge. It is also a mere few miles away from the mouth of the massive Loch of Tirenius.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 9 - It's hard to say some of the big things, as they lead to UNFORGIVABLE spoilers. Being an amputee, Malrissa certainly takes her ability to conjure up a magical arm to replace the one she lost for granted. Winona certainly revels in living in a world where she never had--

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 9 - Like most governing bodies in the New World, Grental's system is primarily parliamentary, elected by--and affecting--the people of the Baviria region, of which Grental is the seat of power. The parliament and its committees do not factor very much in the story. :V

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 8 - I'm autistic. Of course I love rereading the books I love. I've read White Fang and Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future about 20 times each, and I used to read Swallowing Stones on a literal yearly basis. They're my literary comfort food.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 8 - So, the first third of The Blade and the Will takes place in Merchant City Grental--every city in the New World has a fancy title preceding their name, with "Merchant City" and "Port City" being most common. Allegedly, Grental means "green hill" in an Old World dialect.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 7 - Most animals are the animals you and I know, but there are a few unfamiliar bits of fauna. While traveling, the party hunts "orbirds" for food--large kiwi-like flightless birds, whose bodies are shaped like orbs. Thus the name. There are also wolvar, a cross-breed of--

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 7 - Chapter 1 has the demon summoner Mel is hunting as the POV character, and here, he has successfully summoned a large scorpion-like demon who calls itself Agrinox, the Flesh-Flayer. Neither of them realized, however, that Mel was hiding in the rafters above, waiting...

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 6 - Malrissa's homeland, Rosaluna, was massacred of its entire population when she was a child, so she remembers little about it. Instead, she's lived most of her life in Seris, a miserably cold village on the northern continent of Laurentia. It's cold, it's boring, it sucks.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 6 - So, this is an interesting aspect of my world that was kind of an 'informed attribute' until I recently realized none of my characters got any shit from local law enforcement from carrying their weapons around with them all the time. The New World is experiencing an--

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 5 - A long snippet, but Malrissa--new to the city--accompanies Winona on a tour to show her around, culminating in ascending one of the Observation Towers of the Grental Citadel. Mel quickly learns that she's afraid of heights, but presses on to learn the lay of the land.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 5 - Yep, blacksmiths and fletchers are definitely still a thing, even if the growing industrial revolution is slowly making them more obsolete by the day. Malrissa sometimes daydreams of becoming a blacksmith. She likes the idea of making something with her own two hands.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 4 - A relaxing place for me? Well, there's no place like home. All my stuff's here, my bed is comfy, and I've got two cats. Can't get much more relaxing than that. It's a boring answer, but it's true. I'd do my writing here at home, too, if I wasn't stuck working full-time.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 4 - So Zelkiiro's fiery dagger I mentioned on Day 2 is made out of "magisteel." This poorly-named material consists of hardened steel that has been infused with arcane energies during the smelting and refining process, which naturally enhance the final product's most--

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 3 - When I AM prompted to read, I don't have too many limits on the genre. Fantasy, sci-fi, thriller, horror, Literature™--you name it, I'll probably read it, if it's good. Except nonfiction. Fuck you, nonfiction.

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#AprilWorldbuilding Day 3 - Whoops, the only relevant magic weapons were already mentioned on the previous two days, and I have not included any characters with magical armor. Because weapons and armor infused with magic are rare. Womp womp.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 2 - We have the usual four seasons, but the calendar is divided into 13 months (with very "creative" names). Spring begins in the middle of Martz, Summer near the end of Juna, Fall in the final days of Sevtellos, and Winter in the first week of Opheluna, the 13th month.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 2 - We covered Malrissa, so today will cover the rest of her party. Winona wields a revolver purchased from a scrap shop, painted steel blue. Aside from regular bullets, she also possesses magic-infused ammunition that do things like punch through armor or freeze her foes.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Day 1 - Screw it, I'ma do this, too. Not much has changed--my bio still covers me, and my WIP is still my romance-heavy fantasy epic road trip story inspired by Xenogears and Fantastic Children. I'm on my 11th or 12th draft of Book 1. Not having beta readers is driving me nuts.

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 1 - Gonna try something different and use this prompt sheet instead of the previous ones. The weapon Malrissa favors is the obsidian longsword she's able to conjure magically. It's 3 feet long, pitch black, and made of what looks to be jagged obsidian glass. It sharp. Ow.

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#FantasyIndiesMarch Day 31 - Ugh, I've stumbled at the end again. Can't think of anything good for Days 29 and 30. Nothing that won't involve heinous spoilers, anyway. I'm also stressing out because my brother and I are moving across the country in 2 months. With 2 cats. That's gonna be fun. Yayyyy.

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