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New First Empress Commission!
Viarra and Zahnia, by Telênia Albuquerque Hi folks! Hey, painfully sorry for the unannounced hiatus, everyone. I’ve had a lot more to deal with at work these past months that generally left me too tired and unambitious to get any posts … Continue reading →
First Empress Prologue (scene 6)
So here’s the ending of the prologue to First Empress. Originally the prologue ended with Viarra confronting her uncle at the end of scene 5, but later I had an idea that I hope puts an unexpected twist on Viarra’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged excerpts, First Empress, General Derron, my novel, my writing, Queen Viarra
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First Empress Prologue, (scene 5)
Scene Five of the prologue is where I first get to show readers how tough Queen Viarra is. I imply it in scene 2 when Lady Synnis tells Ronnius about how her majesty slew five armed hoplites by herself, but … Continue reading →
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Tagged Elissa, excerpts, First Empress, my novel, my writing, Queen Viarra, Steward Ronnius
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First Empress Prologue (scene 4)
Shoot. So I figured out yesterday that I completely forgot to post the remaining scenes from the First Empress prologue to SSH. Sorry about that. I’ll post the rest today and tomorrow. So I lied in my intro to scene 1, there’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged Elissa, excerpts, First Empress, my novel, my writing, Queen Viarra, Steward Ronnius
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First Empress Prologue (scenes 2 & 3)
So I opted to put scenes 2 and 3 of the prologue together, since they’re both relatively short. Scene 2 introduces the physician/apothecary Esset who, like Ronnius and Lady Synnis, I’d intended larger roles for when originally planning the story … Continue reading →
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Tagged Elissa, excerpts, First Empress, General Derron, my novel, my writing, Queen Viarra, Steward Ronnius
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First Empress Prologue (scene 1)
Hi folks! So in preparation for NaNoWriMo, I’m going to go ahead and post excerpts to my blog and Tumblr. Partly I’m hoping for feedback, but I also just want people to be able to read and enjoy. The novel … Continue reading →
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Tagged Elissa, excerpts, First Empress, my novel, my writing, Queen Viarra, Steward Ronnius, Zahnia the Chronicler
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Yet another MJ Barros Commission
“I’ll admit you’re not at all what I was expecting, your majesty. At worst, I was expecting you to be another intelligent, powerful, ambitious ruler, like myself or Queen Sita: yet another damned rival to vie for power with. Instead you’re … Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient armor, blog news, First Empress, Greco/Roman armor, hoplite armor, linen cuirass, linothorax, MJ Barros, MJ Barros commissions, my novel, my stories, my writing, Queen Viarra, warrior queens
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Temporary breach in hiatus
“I… don’t know what I did to deserve your love. I don’t know why the gods brought me to you. When I was stolen from my home and sold as a slave, I could have ended up in any of … Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient armor, blog news, dresses, Elissa, First Empress, Greco/Roman armor, handmaidens, hoplite armor, linen cuirass, linothorax, MJ Barros, MJ Barros commissions, my novel, my stories, my writing, Queen Viarra, warrior queens
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First Empress soldier designs: Anache Pathfinders
Anache Designs “What we’ll essentially be doing is using the hairy bastards’ guerilla tactics against them, but with military organization and training. Typically when the Gan tribes attack, they do so with scattered war bands of thirty to seventy, rather … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anache, ancient armor, character designs, equipment designs, First Empress, Greco/Roman armor, javelins, linen cuirass, medium armor, my novel, my writing, pathfinders, Queen Viarra, rangers, scouts, shields, skirmishers, soldiers, swords
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First Empress soldier designs: Heavy Skirmishers
Heavy Skirmisher Designs “Men and women with linen cuirasses and oblong shields. Once they’ve exhausted their javelins, we redeploy them to bolster the phalanx or flank enemy formations. They don’t hold the line as solidly as regular hoplites, but they … Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient armor, character designs, equipment designs, First Empress, Greco/Roman armor, javelins, linen cuirass, medium armor, my novel, my writing, Queen Viarra, shields, skirmishers, soldiers, swords
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