trope-a-day
This also serves as the introduction to this series of posts. As I’m porting them over from the old Tumblr at which this used to be hosted, I’ll repeat here what I said there: Welcome to the first of today’s literary announcements. So, I’ve set off
trope-a-day
Fantastic Caste System: Subverted. While the Eldraeic concept of darëssef is often glossed as “caste” in translation, and while the nine groups of acquiescents (those who serve higher powers), aesthants (those who create beauty), executors (those who plan and implement), hearthmistresses (those who maintain; despite the way the name comes
worldbuilding
So, I’m doing a worldbuilding exercise that is, basically, writing the TV Tropes page for your setting/novel/work-in-progress, and seeing what inspiration you come by along the way. Which is going pretty well, so far. This example will not be included in the canonical version, but it seemed