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What Came First, the World or the Story?

  • Post published:September 2, 2018
  • Post category:On Isfalinis/On Writing

I suspect for most authors and most books, the answer to this question is that the story created the world.  Or perhaps a more accurate description would be that they…

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Teaser: A Treatise on Creation and the Lost Age

  • Post published:August 30, 2018
  • Post category:Lore

Before there was life and breath, death and birth, Isfalinis, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the Etyni, there was His Highest Above and naught else.  There was no…

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