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15012017 - apparently dA redid their Gallery. besides having to use the Submit Art button from my Front Page's Newest Deviations gadget instead of within the Gallery to upload my deviations, the new Gallery appears to be hiding several of my deviations. I've sent tech support a message, hopefully this will be resolved within a week. in the interim, when you reach chapter 41 part 2, please use the links I provided in the descriptions field to go on to chapter 41 part 3, then the links on that to reach chapter 41 part 4, thanks
I'm about 60% finished with chapter 48, I'm hoping to finish it this weekend but don't hold me to it. chapter 47 ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, as Pana and Chawinda disappeared along with Viturhimin. Mundhelm tried but failed to find them on the Quzayshehir, which is still falling towards Doushehir, so they're going to have their hands full for a bit. so where did they disappear to, and how will they get back safely? if the so-called Avatar took them somewhere, what will they face? just what is he an Avatar of? and what's with him dropping that bombshell about the races of elves? is he just covering his butt, excusing his atrocities, or is there truth in what he said? if the latter, there's hella implications there...
remember a while back, when I talked about the Blackstonians and Hannetzbirgers and their religions? I think that was chapter 2 or somewhere. anyway, remember that the Blackstonians worship dragons who created the world and fought against horse-riders, and the Hannetzbirgers worship horse-riders who created the world and fought against dragons? And only one of these two can be the truth, yet clerics on both sides gain priestly spells from their deities, therefore both sets of gods must be true? how can that be?
almost the same story with the drow and the high elves...the drow worship Lolth, whom the high elves claim was an elf who became a demon. the high elves worship several gods, but Viturhimin just said that these gods, and Lolth, are all one being, and believing that they're separate is a lie of convenience. we haven't seen clerics from either side yet, so we have yet to find out if the 'avatar' is full of crap or not, so stay tuned!
John "Basileus Ioannis"
I'm about 60% finished with chapter 48, I'm hoping to finish it this weekend but don't hold me to it. chapter 47 ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, as Pana and Chawinda disappeared along with Viturhimin. Mundhelm tried but failed to find them on the Quzayshehir, which is still falling towards Doushehir, so they're going to have their hands full for a bit. so where did they disappear to, and how will they get back safely? if the so-called Avatar took them somewhere, what will they face? just what is he an Avatar of? and what's with him dropping that bombshell about the races of elves? is he just covering his butt, excusing his atrocities, or is there truth in what he said? if the latter, there's hella implications there...
remember a while back, when I talked about the Blackstonians and Hannetzbirgers and their religions? I think that was chapter 2 or somewhere. anyway, remember that the Blackstonians worship dragons who created the world and fought against horse-riders, and the Hannetzbirgers worship horse-riders who created the world and fought against dragons? And only one of these two can be the truth, yet clerics on both sides gain priestly spells from their deities, therefore both sets of gods must be true? how can that be?
almost the same story with the drow and the high elves...the drow worship Lolth, whom the high elves claim was an elf who became a demon. the high elves worship several gods, but Viturhimin just said that these gods, and Lolth, are all one being, and believing that they're separate is a lie of convenience. we haven't seen clerics from either side yet, so we have yet to find out if the 'avatar' is full of crap or not, so stay tuned!
John "Basileus Ioannis"
2024 Happy New Year 2024
01012024 - may we all have a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year. here's to those who aren't with us any more: my dad (28 years ago), my dog (17 years ago), my mom (2 months ago), thank you every one.
Ten Years...already?
06092023 - so, looking at my Gallery, and seeing the oldest deviation was Limousine - A Short Story from March 31st, 2013, I realized that holy smokes, this is my 10th anniversary. As a matter of fact, March 31st has become a bit of a sore anniversary for me, as that was the date five years ago that I moved out of my home of 19 years and ended up in a hotel with my mom. Yeah, I take care of my elderly mom. Anyway, this means I started posting in dA five years before I became effectively homeless. Ironically, when I began posting in dA ten years ago, I was in a hotel in Las Vegas on vacation, and I started marathon-writing chapters for Bad Blood Runs Black starting the 1st of April 2013. Yeah, they were rough drafts, but I cranked out a chapter a day for about a week or so. Gradually it slowed down, until now, I posted chapter 54 back in October 2022, so it's been eleven months since I last posted to my story. I started writing the story in a hotel room, and now I'm still writing it in
Happy New Year 2023
07012023 - Happy belated New Year! I've been posting every picture I have on my computer over the past couple weeks or so. some are gifts from other artists, and are so credited. most are my own mouse-drawn-using-MS-Paint poo. I wish I had more, the older stuff hand drawn on paper, but most have been lost over the years, or are currently in storage and I can't get at them yet :grump: now, I think I can get back to writing my story, what is it now, chapter 55? it'll be a new story arc, so good time to introduce the reader to characters, both heroes and villains, new and old. I won't giveitaway now, but I've done a pretty good job of tying up loose ends so far, so there aren't too many left, huh? or is there a whole continent to the south that we haven't explored yet? and what about the ocean to the east of the High Porte, or west of Albi Aula? endless possibilities, so please bear with me, and thanks for viewing :wave:
Bad Blood Runs Black is up
28112022 - all 54 chapters combined, proofed/edited, added table of contents, and pages numbered (637 pages, plus placeholder page 638 for pending chapter 55). removed all exclamation marks and half the ellipses (dang there were a lot of ellipses...I mean...). had to do some editing to correct mistakes or clarify things, but I tried to keep changes to a bare minimum. it was fun, going through all the chapters again :squee: the other day, I saw a movie on TV called Life-Size 2 with Tyra Banks as a living doll named Eve, and her in the initial pink outfit reminded me of Slikkepind the Ghaele Eladrin. really, the way she talks to people to cheer them up, and doesn't seem to care what everyone else thinks is so her. Slikki was not influenced by Eve, as this was the first time I saw the movie, but it doesn't surprise me that there would be some similarities (of course, instead of a Barbie-sized doll growing to Tyra's substantial height, we have a 6 foot+/2 meter tall Ghaele Eladrin who
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So what do you think happened?