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Greetings my Boulderoleros!

The weather in New York today is perfect for a winter in Boulderoth: cool, rainy, and kinda gross.  Thanks, god of storms.  This week I've been tweaking maps and patching up a few things with the history of the Empire.

Watching a half dozen documentaries about ancient Athens and Mycenaean shenanigans, as well as a few about Edo period Tokyo helped me develop a more fleshed out city on the barren rocks that were the Grey Crag.  Think Manhattan, but with Greco-Roman archiecture and the tight quarters of Tokyo.  Also, quick change, the Grey Crag is now no longer the refuge of a fleeing elven prince trying to hide a sacred text.  It is now the secret stronghold of a ruthless elven warlord prince who sets up a military outpost on this small cluster of islands and develops a "magical weapon", which he then uses to destroy the islands and most of the people living in the city that has developed around the outpost.  But there is still a book.  Elves love books.  The people who survive the category 11 hurricane and the volcano that rises up from the sea floor and boils most of the people before launching them into space and junk...they wash up on the beaches of Tarkinos and the southern coast.
 
From there it's all zombies, kingdom, war, peace, war, empire, civil war, civil war, civil war, barbarian conquest, military revolution, civil war, political upheavals, creedence clearwater revival, and The Blackening bringing us to the home stretch with the Sacred Band (Paladins) and the fall of the Eastern Empire just like always.  Also, I'm toying with the idea of the "elves" being called the "immortals".  They're not really elf-elves, they just have pointy ears and live forever...pretty much.  They're way more like samurai.  I'll get on that.

Earth, sea, empire.  =)
-NDF
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    Today for #ManCrushMonday, I give to you Padrus Masos, the first King of Boulderoth, a simple fisherman who grows up on The Grey Crag, a city like Atlantis and Alexandria with a pinch of the Florida Keys.  He's got a wife and three kids until his wife leaves for a super rich dude.  Then he's just got three kids.  The Grey Crag is destroyed by storms and earthquakes and sucked down into the ocean and in the chaos of their escape, his oldest son along with his daughter-in-law and grandbaby are lost.  He manages to get on board a ship with his two children Nokolus and Narus who are 15 and 10 at the time.  As they get closer to land there's a reef and a whole bunch of the ships go down and everyone gets eaten by sharks, but Padrus and his kids make it to shore and they get thrown in jail because the King of the Tarkins is all paranoid because he pissed off the Kambis and they put a curse on the whole kingdom and it's a big mess there.  Whatever.  Long story short, Padrus meets a Tarkin lady named Amaryllia Vulepus and they have a kid in 518 B.E. (that's Before the Empire).  There's a coup and Padrus finds himself king of a kingdom he doesn't understand.  His first act as king is to protect his new kingdom from all the zombies that arose because of the Curse of the Kambis.  So he and his eldest living son, Nikolus go out and they fight some zombies, but at this city called Serleon, they are overconfident and they find themselves surrounded and there are some Harres that ride up because they see smoke and they're curious, but their horses don't like the zombies so they're like "Well, fuck this." and they leave.  Nikolus is killed in the chaos and that really hits home for Padrus.  They manage to kill all the zombies, but Padrus develops a drinking problem and winds up ruling for ten more years as a super bummed out King who doesn't get out of bed that much.  He dies and leaves the kingdom to his daughter, Narus.  She's a badass.  She is later killed by Madman Titus Tavro, a former zombie hunter turned outlaw.  So that's some stuff.  Rock and roll.

    ESE

    -NDF

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      Boulderoleros!  We've got an updated chapter!  Hooray!  Check it out and be sure to pre-order.  Thanks for all the warms and fuzzies.  I'm on my way back to "the office"  (hahaha that's my room) to get some more map stuff out of the way and then I'll be revealing The Old Kingdom, the precursor to The Empire!  Stay wild.

      Earth, sea, empire.

      -NDF

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        Behold!  A piece of the map!  This is an old map, before the Empire or even the Old Kingdom existed.  More on this at eleven.

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          Hello, my wonderful Boulderoleros!  Glad tidings are upon us!  Pre-orders are now available for Tale of Boulderoth!  Get your copy today!  Much love!

          ESE, NDF

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            Good morning, my loyal and trusty cohort!  Your numbers are growing and that makes me very happy.  I made a QR code today and I slapped that QR code upon a fistful of business cards, which will be arriving in a week or so and then it's the fun part.  Presales become presaleable the second I open that box and start flingin' business cards like shuriken.  Sorry for the delay, but it is just a delay.  When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.  This is gonna work.  It's gonna work and it's gonna be glorious.  May your days be filled with victory, glory and honor.  The work continues.

            -Love, Nick

            Earth, Sea, Empire.

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