Monthly Archives: November 2016

The Compendium: New Pages, Old Reflections

To celebrate the release of The Eye of Kog, I scribed a few new pages for the online Compendium here on the site. Looking at the Compendium always makes me thoughtful. I confess I started it as something between a lark and a joke: “why not pretend you’re already famous?” But I look over the entries now and think, so much more I could be adding here and there. Tales or more of this, I wonder. All opinions welcome!

Herein you can now find references for:

Despair’s Makine: explaining the penchant for technology displayed by evil races long ago. Those who have read Judgement’s Tale will recall some of the conversations around these dread devices, and they continue in the discussion through the sequel.

The Twin Moons Aral and Unal: In case you’ve been watching these stories so intently you never looked up. Yeah, there are two moons up there. And they’re going the wrong way!

Magic and Miracles: a brief discussion of the different forms of supernatural energy wielded by the Children of Hope, including Linya the Mage, Mhoral a Pious Warrior and of course Solemn Judgement himself.

The City of Oncario: this major scene of the action comes into play during The Eye of Kog; it’s where you meet several new important characters and it’s one focus of the action when the tale comes to its climactic conclusion.

Composing entries for an encyclopedia like this is different from the tales of course. There’s plenty of description, less demand to characterize or filter everything through a particular PoV. The Compendium, more than anything else I’ve done, gives the lie to that whole absurd notion I had for years– that the Lands of Hope were something I could have made up. Simply there, I understand that now. And plenty more to describe as the years of chronicling roll by.