Recent content by Roughdragon

Thank you for the advice; In this case, she feels guilty simply because of the act of killing someone and watching them die. At that moment, she realizes that she had taken the life of someone else, and she wonders if she could have done anything different that could have injured him instead of...

Yeah, I understand the point about the second chapter, and I've already adjusted the scene to make her more of a good-natured character, in google docs, at least.

Thank you for the replies. To elaborate on the setting of the story, it is based in a late medieval time period when firearms are beginning to be introduced. The main character is a village girl who was burned as a witch, but was resurrected due to a particular mark on her hand. My goal for the...

I'm trying to write a scene where a character is attacked by a scavenger after her village is burned down, and she kills him in self defense. However, as he lay dying, she starts to feel guilt and sympathy towards the dying assailant, and stays by his side until he dies. My question is...

Good point, I guess you can make an argument that it's just the lowest place they've found so far.

Just as the title says, how do you prefer to name places of interest? There seems to be, at least to me, two ways of doing this, and I could definitely be wrong. The first is to give a strange sounding name such as, for example, Djinkaard or Vernonwell. The other way, the one I prefer to...

I suppose people can be inclined to use different elements depending on what emotion they are feeling at the moment. For example: Anger = Fire, Sadness = Water, Apathy = Ice, Excitement = Lightning. Of course, not all magic users know all of the elements, and the elements and emotions would be...

Magic could be used for non-combat applications, of course, but the purpose of magic, and why it had been studied for so long and so intensely, was mostly for the combative edge it gave armies. And as for the second question, yes, the magic varies depending on the person casting it, since the...

Yeah, in essence, people who master both sorcery and magic, though there have been very, very few due to the contrasting nature of thinking vs. feeling, can become some of the most powerful warriors in the realm.

I should have mentioned this, but sorcery spells are different in that they are not based on the elements. They are, as you said, more intricate than magic due to the intense amount of study dedicated to learning to cast sorcery spells, but rather than the bombastic, emotion-fueled spells casted...

"Magic" refers to the elemental magics, but unlike sorcery, it doesn't need to be studied much at all. All a magic caster has to do is memorize a word or short phrase. However, the power of a magical spell, unlike a sorcery spell, depends purely on how emotionally charged the caster is when the...

In my story, the term "magic" is only one very broad term which typically refers to elemental magic, for example, fire and ice. These types of elemental magic are based on a wielder's pure emotion, and the power of these spells depend on how extreme the wielder's emotions are. "Sorcery", on the...

I'm trying to write a story about a group of people venturing into the unknown depths of the earth, and I'm planning for two of the characters to be religious. One is influenced primarily by the Old Testament, and the other influenced by the New Testament. What would be the differences between...

I didn't know that about skyrim, guess I was too busy shooting arrows at things

Yeah, I can understand that. Lovecraft's language is pretty hard to understand, and I probably shouldn't focus too much on the "Language" of the narration and scene-setting.