Michael Dharma

Tirial has the sort of siege weapons we had during the Medieval period of the real world: catapults, trebuchets, battering rams, etc.

The besieged must also deal with an element that Medieval soldiers didn't: Flight. That is, winged beasts or winged folk plus flight invocations. /5

Formations of such troops are similar to that of Medieval Europe, but adjusted for the presence of Smiters, really large shock troopers, and other fantastic elements. /4

Troop training varies from folk race to folk race but is largely similar to that of Medieval Europe. However, one type of warrior is trained differently: the "Smiter." Smiters know invocations that are useful on the battlefield, such as hurling lightning bolts. /3

Notable Tirialan generals? One would be a Lulnvald woman named Liarse Urasyre. She wrote a book called "The Manual Grand Strategy." Think of it as being like "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, if written in a world with florid and objective "magic". /2

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Days 2-6
#Tirial

Is Umaryn involved in a war?

Not...yet. /1

The continent with the most wars is Ozoros. 11 different nations and 9 different folk races are in a state of declared war. /2

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Day 1
#Tirial

There are wars in the Far South on the continent of Kharoon and the Far North on the Continent of Dadithaer. /1

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Day 30
#CosmicEgg

I pre-plan a lot of my world building before I write. But it's impossible to plan out every single detail ahead of time. Some of it comes during writing.

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Day 29

I'm happy with the direction of my WIP. I just wish I was doing it as my day job rather than in my spare time.

And this illustrates that not all fantasy world-building need be exotic, alien, anachronistic, or bizarre. /2

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Day 28

By far, the most common punishment for breaking the law in most cultures of #Tirial is jail time or imprisonment. It can range from one night for being a drunken ass or years for more serious crimes. /1

Umaryn herself commits heresy and treason when she makes a pact with the trickster god, Yvnos. This marks her as a criminal. She's even put on the court dockets for his lordship to judge her. /6

A particularly brutal punishment of the Dunsairks for capital crimes is public execution by forced drowning. It symbolizes the disdain of the river goddess for particularly heinous acts. /5

The justice system is usually based at the county level. The local lord appoints judges and magistrates. Sometimes, the local lord is the judge himself if it's a high profile trial. /4

The Chidren of Dryn Maryk worship the Dunsairk trickster god, Yvnos. They're as much a criminal gang as they are a religious cult. /3

If not for being pledged to marry Doyed Khilii, I’m sure she’d be in prison someday.” /2

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Days 23-27
#Tirial

Crime snippet

Nars added, “That part’s true. Ms. Umaryn is a scurrilous little sneak with a lifelong habit of eavesdropping. She’s like a thief in training. /1

Umaryn commits heresy and treason in the story by making a pack with the trickster god of the Dunsairks, Yvnos. /2

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Days 21 & 22
#Tirial

The myth about the Rot Freak is that it's supposed to be *dead*.

Oops! It tlooks like some gods either fucked up or did something shady. /1

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Day 20

The Rot Freak makes its lair in an abandoned stone temple of the long gone human race, who are extinct of #Tirial.

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Day 19
#Tirial

The Rot Freak and other Misbegotten don't have ecological niches. They destroy ecologies simply by interacting with them.

They're also smarter than Earth cats. Like Earth crows, marmalots can actually plan for the future. Also, they "murr" rather than "meow."

Similar species are present across the #CosmicEgg thanks to the cat goddess Ubasti. /2

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Day 18

A common animal companion/pet on #Tirial is the tuft-eared marmalot. They're like Earth house cats but come in a wider variety of colors and patterns (such as red). /1

Monsters such as the Zlissairm were created by a pantheon of gods known as the Lords of Risk. Such monster sow the seeds of uncertainty that the Lords love so much. /3

A common monster that Dunsairks have to deal with is the Zlissairm. Zlissairms are spindly parodies of Dunsairks with fangs and claws that find Dunsairk folk to be quite tasty. Umaryn is hunted by one in the woods near Aintwyg. A number of them also attack the village. /2

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Days 16 & 17

Rot Freak Snippet

It was an abomination: a mottled brown cephalopoidal foot surmounted by six gigantic corpse-like heads. The thing was like a hillock of decaying flesh that would dwarf a cottage. /1

However, there are dangerous animals that are "cute" such as the tufted serapi of the deserts around Mjen and Dija'riat. It's a feline species native to #Tirial. Or at least wild ones are dangerous. They can be tamed if raised from kitten hood. /2

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Day 15

Monsters on #Tirial are never "cute." Monsters are soulless things that were created by the Lords of Risk to seed uncertainty in the world. /1

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Day 14

An example of clothing worn by a special class of people would be the red robes and headwear of the qualran, an order of healers on #Tirial.

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Day 13

What does the antagonist wear? Simple. The Rot Freak doesn't wear anything.