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The Adventurer’s Guide: Saikasu

On August 29, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, Scenebuilding, The Stars Went Out, Writing6 Comments

Umi Siskin of Lumis leads the mischievous Prince Tatsuya of Planet Cygnet across the Plutonian Sea to the land of alchemists and rebirth.

Day 30: Name of the Stars

On July 31, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, Storybuilding, Writing2 Comments

The discovery of Saikasu had been an accident. A seasonal priestess on her way to Bhin, sailing on the mapped way she’d used for a decade—Lotus, Queen’s Tattoo, Threecorn—found her route interrupted by a body in the stars she’d never seen before.

Day 28: Mosaic Harbor

On July 30, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, The Stars Went Out, Worldbuilding, Writing4 Comments

Workers hauled ashore cages of feathered game and trunks of malachite ore, lined in synchronized, silent pairs.

“The Stars Went Out” 2019

On June 29, 2019August 17, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism, The Stars Went Out, Writing3 Comments

Three siblings divided by social class--honored war hero, pampered gentry, and outcast slave--navigate the immediate aftermath of a magic war that drastically warped each of their lives. However, all of Lumis must obey a decree to erase any memory of the war within one year.

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