R. T. Jenkins

hello i am going to do a thread with some stuff i made and some stuff about it

"we can't uninvent AI" oh, yes we can. I fucking bet. we can do anything if we really put our minds to it. I believe in us. let's do it. I dare you. I double fucking dare you

#PlotTober, Fantasy

Morvin lost her family in a battle in the capital, and grew up an urchin. She did all sorts - picking pockets, watchgirl on the door, a turn or two as safecracker. She even did some ideological stuff, put up banned posters, distribute pamphlets, spread the message.

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#OctoberWorldbuilders Prompts Day 10: Competitive games/sports

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10: In Hrothia in the Kingdom of Hroth in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), there's a great arena that's used for competitive combat sports and dueling and horse racing, while along the docks, competitive sailing races are a common form of entertainment.

...asshole, which Val'Sai's mother coped with predominantly by drinking excessively. Large chunks of their story (including Val'Sai's initial conception) are also detailed in the fourth stand alone (The Rippling Cataclysm).

...human (Vizrani), leading her upbringing to be marred by the stresses of poverty and their ultimately disintegrating marriage. FInally, Val'Sai's parents did not contend with poverty, but his father being a brilliant alchemist didn't offset the fact that he was also a rage-filled, abusive...

...led to him being banished instead. The story of Sel'Vinna's parents is also told briefly in The Rippling Cataclysm, but includes her mother and father being forced into poverty after their marriage due to racism and discrimination at the fact that her father is a ral/elf and her mother is a...

...the other hand, also shares his backstory in the first book (though portions of the pre-backstory are also in The Rippling Cataclysm) that his father was a respected locksmith in Stoneburrough and Swindles (Celvan at the time) was likely to take over the business, but being framed for burglary...

...alone novel (The Rippling Cataclysm) in that she was essentially abandoned by her mother soon after her birth, given only a name and then raised in an orphanage, forced to essentially carve out her own way in the world and inevitably falling in with organized crime to do so. Swindles McGee, on...

...one and three (The Grey Plague and The Second War), but needless to say he went from soldier and wife guy to a dishonorably discharged (and criminally charged) Veteran in widower very abruptly and has been adrift ever since this time. Riv'Kala's backstory is alluded to in the fourth stand...

...stand alone novel (The Grey Plague) that also includes Kasira's birth and revolves around significant depression and anxiety during the onset of the Grey Plague (and things like this may have shaped some of Kasira's personality traits). Rashad's backstory, meanwhile, is told in stand alones...

...Kasira states her backstory when she is introduced early in the first book: she has essentially been driven from her homeland for disagreements with the religious beliefs there (particularly religious prohibitions against using wood for building). Her mother's backstory is detailed in the first..

...stand alone novel (The Second War). Given some pieces of his character (some of his interests aligning more with wealth, general fund of knowledge that suggests are a more privileged education in his upbringing), it not a far stretch that he may have come from money compared to where he is now...

...Zri'Denn is the most ambiguous at the start of this book, given he has a bad habit of lying and making up whichever story about his background will best fit the situation that he's in. Needless to say, he has been a drifter with no familyh from even before when he was a mercenary in the third...

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10: The crew of the third Rise of Villainy books (co-authored with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) have a variety of tragic backgrounds, some that happen on screen in other Karnassia books and some that happen off. Some of this is finally revealed in this book, so details may be light...

...small quiet towns (or their descendants) usually for some crime.

...of Valestra and subject to the rule of its Wild King or Queen, given the mostly local government for the Valestrals, the Beadaoga mostly self-govern their towns in relative peace. There are Beadaoga elsewhere in Karnassia these days, but those are usually folks who were banished from the two...

...there's evidence that suggests that they used to inhabit all of Karnassia, by the time of these stories, they are mostly confined to the towns of Rockdale and Stoneburrough in the Eastern Errias Mountains that divide Valestra from Avenad. While these towns are /technically/ part of the Kingdom...

So you did not miss it, there is just TOO much at time, so I probably didn't fully explain it. The Beadaoga are referred to as "underlings" by the other races, though they, uh, are not super fond of that name, and they roughly correspond to the trope-y halflings of "standard" fantasy. Though...

Anyways, several days late, and still probably not enough context, but wanted to make sure I did this when I had the mental energy to!

...the extent to which they are willing to take their quest for profit (especially if they would kill for money or not) reveals the cracks and disagreements in the group, and one particular job has the potential to reshape the larger political climate on the continent.

...safe-cracker/lock-picker), Riv'Kala (an ambitious woman stepped in the criminal enterprises of Viz'Rala), and Sel'Vinna (a close friend to Riv'Kala with a much more ruthless disposition), they set about to form their own criminal organization: part thieves' guild and part fantasy cartel, though..

...,in a stroke of good luck, Val'Sai, a young Vizrani alchemical wunderkind who can make chemical quickdust: a drug native to the deserts of Avenad and prized for its stimulating properties. With him, Kasira (a hunter seeking enough money to get her own home), Swindles (a wise-cracking Beadaoga...

...The Second War, he received training by Rashad Daglaso, wife guy and soldier for the Nation of Avenad (until he is neither of those things anymore), which allowed him to wander the wilderness as a bandit after the war without becoming worm food. After several decades of this, he and Rashad meet..

...to a main character being Zri'Denn (alluded to in second stand alone The Great Famine, POV in third stand alone The Second War, functionally the protagonist of the Rise of Villainy Series), who is on a quest to, in his words, "not be fucking poor anymore." During his time as a mercenary in...

...called The Traveler's Guide to Karnassia and am working on an in-world Brief History of Karnassia), but context and setting doesn't mean much without characters, and this creates some challenges. The first four stand alones use a rotating cast of overlapping characters, with the closest thing...

...the Valestrals, to the dialectical of farming and fighting in the Kingdom of Hroth, to the more isolationist Nation of Cyra, and multicultural republic of Freeport (in a cove off the coast of the aforementioned Vizrani Empire). I could yap about this indefinitely (and wrote an in-world book...

...and imperial minded Atmorals (called high elves by the humans) on the ral/elf side (with an almost mirror in these traits for the Vizrani on the human side), to the more egalitarian-focused society of the Avendrals (called cave elves by the humans), to the polyamorous carnivore communism of...

...the indigenous people of Karnassia), the other seven groups appear to be the descendants of various waves of settler-colonizers who have been struggling for control even after losing ties and touch with the other continents that they came from. These cultures range from the often supremacist...

...Which, maybe I should back up, with "What is Karnassia?" Karnassia is actually the name of one continent on the planet Andos where all the stories take place. It is home to four types of ral/elves, three human cultures, and the Beadaoga. Outside of that last group (who scholars assume may be...