Oct 16, 2015

As promised, there be maps.  Well, one for now.  I've got another ready for next week.  The picture quality isn't the best unfortunately, primarily because I'm not a very good artist but also because my scanner is old and sketchy which forced me to go the lackluster route of a picture taken from my phone.

Just a tiny little island, certainly not much to look at.  It is however the homeland to Pentaz and the rest of the Muix family.  Also home to the most insular and bigoted dwarves that the world knows, with most of them spending their entire lives without ever seeing the light of the sun.  At its center is Father Mountain, which the dwarves will not dig into or under since it is considered a holy site by them.

The extensive caverns beneath the island are also home to the dwarves close cousins, the gnomes who have equal citizenship in the kingdom but are rarely actually referred to as Thierdenvolgenlunders.  The gnomes spend their days at inventing for the most part, typically ending their lives in the same way.

To surface dwellers it is seen as two islands, but the natives know it to be a single island.  The channel between is shallow, no more than a few dozen feet deep at its deepest, and the two are connected by the vast tunnel networks beneath the ground.

There is of course no shortage of subterranean wildlife, from common beetles to the monstrous Urkan worms to the highly reclusive earth dragons.  The only other humanoid inhabitants are the trolls, ancestral enemies to the Thierdenvolgenlunders.  These giants have harbored an undying hatred ever since the dwarves invaded nearly ten millenia past and wiped out the entirety of their slave goblins.

This serves as the background for Pentaz, the only reality he has known before thrusting himself blind into the wider world.

Hopefully you've all enjoyed that little bit of insight.  As for the project, I'm still gaining followers and looking for new ways to attract more attention to the book.  Also hoping that many of you who have followed will end up deciding to preorder as well.

Beyond that I don't have much more to update on.  If anyone has any questions or comments feel free to get in touch with me either here or on Facebook, Twitter, or Goodreads.

As always, thanks for your support and keep spreading the word.  I'm having a hard time resisting the urge to post up Chapter 4, so I'm hoping we can reach 50 orders soon.