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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 879489" data-attributes="member: 7280">Names and sentence structureVery good and thanks, I was indeed attempting to style a history lesson (fantasy wise) into the trappings of a sort of mythology. The reason the dragons, and most of the characters, are named as they are currently has a lot to do with my imagined resonance and familiarity with currently standing names in other non-SRD (or heck, I didn't even check, maybe some of those god names are SRD'd) sources. Personally I'm most fond of the whole Happa/Valas/Heros feel, and least fond of Teeamisis. Teeamisis, while I've finally gotten my mouth to accept that someone might actually use such a word, still doesn't look very um...frightening I think. There are other things I'm working on right now. I'm breaking down these dieties into something that I can place onto my map and I'm attempting to break down my map so I can send out some parts of it with annotations and direction rather than sloppy notes tacked onto a layer like "stormy coast" and showing wind directions.The sentence structure bothered me also, but every time my half-forgotten English courses tried to "fix" things I ended up losing the children's book/fable/mythology feel to things. In the end I just wrote out things as they came to me with the results you see. Seriously, some of the just so stories inside my myth just happened. In the back of my mind to begin with the moon was probably a diety at one point, but now it is a definite destination that you can go to from Shadow. I didn't even know that halfings were going to figure so prominently into my tale (Happa Fin and crew) until it became myth-logically important that they were.I may finish the gods bits today in short form, unless I get sidetracked by watching my slow computer process my map at some point.</blockquote>

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