Aug 17, 2016

Mid-week update time.  Thanks to everyone whose supported Exile, Magus so far, it has meant a lot to me.  I’m still pushing along, and now that my schedule has cleared up I’ll be able to finally focus on the campaign as fully as I want to.  For those of you who are following, but haven’t ordered I do hope you’ll take the step soon.  Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help convince you.

Also, don’t forget that the top 10 referrers will get their choice of one of the signed art prints, a book, or a wild card reward(not so wild, more a "tell me to make you something" reward) after Magus is funded, so do keep recommending to everyone you think would enjoy the book.  Once the new artwork I just commissioned as a title page for Part 11 is finished that will take the total number of rewards available above 10, so that means that if Magus funds there will also be rolls made to see which readers also get special rewards.  I plan to keep commissioning new works throughout the campaign, and will post them here when each is completed. Now on to fun stuff.

I’ve got one more map to catch new followers up on before I move on to the previously unreleased maps.  This one is the Top of the World (and is admittedly not that spectacular).  

 The world’s north pole is rumored to be a haven for the world’s oldest dragons, and among those scholars who believe that dragons have a limited albeit very long lifespan the primary  that the aging dragons migrate here to die, making the region a dragon graveyard.  This theory is entirely untested however, for fear of dragons has led to very few expeditions attempting to reach the area, and those which have tried  have never been heard from again.

It is said to be a region of impassible mountains formed mostly of jagged, blade-like rocks jutting up out of the ground.  At its center lies a hole ranging from 20-30 miles across which is said to run all the way to the south pole, also known as the Bottom of the World.  Just how this seemingly impossible feature came to be lies with the conclusion of the legendary Demon Gods’ War.

With his fellow demon gods defeated, their leader Cirdresse stood astride the Top of the World and challenged the most beloved of the twin elven goddesses, Saereiscia Lataria.  During the struggle she was nearly overwhelmed, but ultimately prevailed when she flung her Gem of Power, thought to be one of the 12 Shards/Stones of Creation, into him and released its power to destroy him.  The resulting explosion of magical energy was cataclysmic, causing significant changes to the world such as the hole through it, the formation of Lake Moiyrthan and the World’s Cleft River as well as the eruption of a 10 mile high wall of flame around the continent opposite of ours.  Unable to be fully destroyed, the magic of the Gem lingers and sustains these features, and holds the planet together despite of the new hole through it.

Some of the more ridiculed theories about the hole claim it to be a gateway to Hellish realms, or to even be its own world with populations much the same as in the rest of the world.  These are assumed to be mere flights of fancy on the part of storytellers, however.  What actually lies beyond the rim is an ongoing mystery.  Most of the bard songs agree that if one where to look down through the hole that they could then see the stars of the night’s sky on the other end.  If there is any truth to this it would seem to disprove the other theories, as a portal to hell or light from cities would obscure the view. 

If you want to know a bit more about the build up to the Demon Gods’ War you can read the prequel of sorts to it here at my blog.

That’s all I’ve got for today.  Again, thanks for your support!  Keep reading and enjoying!