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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8424100" data-attributes="member: 6796468">So... My brother is, officially and finally, out. It took a-while- to get him to leave and it was a lot of  stress and frustration for all of us... There's a big story, there, but I'm tired of telling it and here wouldn't be the right place, anyhow. Suffice it to say this is better for everyone involved. Hubby and I have spent the last week trying to make the house "Ours", again, and I'm going to be cleaning the guest bedroom off and on for the forseeable future.But it's time to get back to writing.So. One of the main conceits of the Project Chronicle setting is that cities and civilizations are largely havens of vice, corruption, and wickedness, where good and noble people get turned into miserable and terrible people. Where Sorcery is occasionally sourced by powerful priests and kings, where criminals gain power and exercise it on the innocent.But I've positioned Imba, the Unconquered, as somewhat antithetical to that. A civilization that is actually at it's heart pretty much good because of the familial tribal structure that it focuses on. Mainly because I wanted to present the fact that civilization isn't the -real- problem, but rather how people treat and perceive each other, typically as strangers and outgroups, that creates the strife and degeneration of cities in a Sword and Sorcery setting.But now I'm staring down Kyalo on Lake Kono, Market at the Edge of Forever, with Witches and Pokenkwo Nectar and Bottled Dreams... I'm looking at it's Kleptocratic ruler, Ado, whose corrupt guards make up new rules and laws whenever they will to pluck bloodstones from whomever they feel like they can bully, and I'm worried I'm steering too hard in the other direction. The giant centipede "Riding Serpents" are great, though.I'm worried whether I'm creating a racist allegory, here, or if I'm just making the "Worst" of the four cities of the Shrinking Savannah and both Oromi and Tefari will be more balanced...Thoughts?</blockquote>

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