grumpy warden

one of my current wips

Lahn'elvyr

I finally have a concrete character design for Lahn. She's an ancient elf follower of Falon'din, and part of his group of assassin priests he send out to kill political rivals.

Alistair Week is back, September 6th through 12th!

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Slow down, slow down to the feeling

Wait up, wait there if you see me

Come back, come back to the moment

The moment

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Stolen Child - Reunion pt I

Bloomingtide 9:31, Dragon

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THE RANDY DOWAGER QUARTERLY: EXHIBITIONS.

INQUISITION EXPOSED.

An extra-thick annual edition of the suspect quarterly:

The Randy Dowager puts a bow on the year by gifting us the illustrated Inquisition Exposed, being a modern epic of love, betrayal, duty, breaches torn, breeches torn, a slip of fade-tongue, the eternal struggle between concerns mortal and passions mysterious.

I can’t believe it

All that obsessive research into medieval dental hygiene actually paid off

I was spending all this time thinking “Literally no one cares about Thedosian dental hygiene, Amy, why are you wasting your time on this” but HERE IT IS

So yeah, this isn’t actually true! While the toothbrush itself is a fairly modern invention, there’s a well recorded history of people in medieval Europe using a combination of various sweet-smelling mouth rinses and scrubbing their teeth clean with a cloth and a mild abrasive herb paste of some sort. Some common rinses included mint and wine or mint and vinegar, and pastes included things like marjoram and mint, rosemary and charcoal, and vinegar, pickling alum, white salt and honey.

Someone even tested a bunch of historical remedies out and found out that they were mostly pretty effective.