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Changes are Coming

They’ll have to wait until after the current deadline and a business trip, but expect big changes here in the next months. I’m planning a major overhaul herein (to make it more accessible and understandable). I’ll take great pains to make sure the blog remains linkable et al. but I’m going to start adding more direct commentary and input as “myself the author,” not just writing direct content and/or background materials for my worlds.

If anyone’s got suggestions or comments on things they expect

Apologies

This blog hasn’t been as active as I’d like it to be. Chalk it up to a confluence of life and miscellanei that conspired against my setting up a few posts to automatically download. I’ll try and get some short posts up in the next week, but I suspect I’ll have to shoot for creating a post-Saint Patrick’s Day pot-of-gold for folks after mid-month.

Thanks for all who’ve inquired as to the delays or lack of material. I’m hoping to have some exciting stuff up again soon. And perhaps an announcement

Agency Bio: Sam Herneson

To: [REDACTED:]

From: [REDACTED:]

Date:

12 December 2000

Subject: File V139350804011967

As per your instructions of the 4th, I pursued a deep datamine on Biofile V139350804011967 a.k.a. “Sam Herneson” and at least nine other semi-active aliases. Despite our ability to cross-correlate every intergovernmental infosource across the planet, I cannot find definitive data to confirm (beyond 75% accuracy) the facts about this person.

This is a man who either does not officially exist or lives in ten diffe

Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates

The Phendarm Protectorates became a monarchy in the Sixth Age when Phendarm the First drove all his enemies from these lands and received the crown as his divinely-inspired reward. He built his royal castle Lantor by 207 OD upon the Connarin Plateau and ruled from on high, his capitol of Mervan growing around him over the decades. Within short decades, though, the realm of Ptarlantan (after King Phendarm’s surname of Ptarlant) became the Protectorates of Phendarm in 281 OD. The reason was succes

Kharndam Guide: Twelvelands

Twelvelands

The Twelvelands, while founded in 1,360 OD, have only the most tenuous of political foundations as a state. Still, the military might and independence of its people are well marked by the Dragonforces in Lluranal to their south. The bowl-shaped depression of the area creates a large freshwater lake at the heart of the Twelvelands, and Parhim the City of Sceptres lies on that lake as the sole major settlement among a large number of villages and hamlets. Self-reliant by nature and by

Kharndam Guide: Tsarnus

Tsarnus

Once called “Kharndam’s Katar” due to its pointed shape, the Lartharn Peninsula was home to very few crowns until Tsarn the Patient took control of the land from Naak-Ost-Chyl-Nyit the “Sablewyrm” in 89 OD. Tsarnus became a state in 93 OD, and it took over a century before Tsarnus became the ruling authority for the whole peninsula. The lands were part of Kharndam and the Pegasus Sovereignty for more than five centuries but became their own country again when Lluranal fell to the Imperam

Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS

This is the standard title for stories revolving around multiple Earths among Bulwark Comics publications. BC saw the benefit of the multiple Earths concept from some of its pulp stories and played with it first in 1944, having characters meet from the Guardians comic line in Bulwark comics (“Crossroads of Reality,” Best Comics #48, August 1944) and vice-versa (“Crisis at the Crossroads,” Super Thrills #39, August 1944). This was the only CROSSROADS story in the 1940s or 1950s for either company

Volumeternals

Between 1480 and 1510, Venetian book printer Teobaldo Manucci and Yannis Gregoropoulos crafted 24 books (later knownas the volumeternals) by commission and with the aid of a mysterious but never-identified client. These books had special properties in their enchanted pages: Volumeternals contain an unknown number of pages, though all of the books only appeared to physically be about 90 pages long. A reader with the key words in contact with the volumeternal can unlock the hidden potential of th

Bulwark Media: Max Dawes

Dawes, Max

Born March 15 of 1913 in Rockford Illinois, the flaxen-haired Floyd Maxwell II yearned for a life beyond dairy farms and the Midwest. At age 17, he came to Hollywood, changed his name to Max Dawes, and got his start as a bit player of thugs. Max’s star rose when he starred as the ILLUMINATED MAN™ in three 14-part serials in 1933 (The ILLUMINATED MAN™ vs. The Vampires), 1934 (The ILLUMINATED MAN™ vs. The Voodoo Queen), and 1935 (The ILLUMINATED MAN™ vs. The Seven Deadly Sirs). Despit

Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part III)

The Low Race Calendars:

Dwarftime (DT), Rhamathreckoning (RR), Drakereckoning (UD/OD), Sovereignty Flight Years (BF/IF/AF), Impramark (IM), and Eaglereckoning (ER)

While there have been more than nineteen major calendars or ways to mark history by the many non-progenitor races, only six have any major relevance or dominant use on Dharual today (even to scholars). While the centaurs of southwestern Rokhal do have deviations from the calendars noted here, they do not make major changes and still