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Darn dragons coming in and ruining everything, jokes aside I like the ending. Also what was the inspiration for the name Lharmeval? Is the pronunciation supposed to be Français and so; Lharméval?

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Yes! French was one of the three main languages I borrowed from in this story, so it’s actually a slight twist on “larmes” for tears. So I would say that the Français is most appropriate.

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Good, Lharmeval et you have ‘medieval’ I suspect that played an influence so that it sounds almost like ‘larmes médiévale’.

J’adore cela, I really like that. I’ll have to read another of your serials are they all in the same world?

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Yes, all of the fantasies are, so far - they are set in different countries, so the world-building is a little different, but I’m bringing together a full fantasy map with countries drawing inspiration from Europe and I hope to include places like Africa and Asia, as well. Someday I’m going to have to draw them all out! All of the science fantasies are the same world as each other, and I’ve considered linking them into the fantasy world at some point, but I’m undecided on that.

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I’m not sure the Science-fantasy works but I’m against all intermingling of Mythic and Futuristic but I’m entirely too old school so do what you want.

My own stories all take place in the same world.

I had thought to ask you what you might make of my Brotherhood of the Gemstone or Olympnomachi dunno if you’ve read them yet. It’d be interesting getting your perspective on them.

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Same, I feel it doesn’t work either with the world-building I’ve done since my original consideration of it, and since there’s now a time gap between the two it would only work with time-travel, I think. While that was a major part of Ransom, it’s not an element I can bring back (In Ransom they had to shut down time-traveling ability.)

That’s neat! I actually did read a chapter of Brotherhood of the Gemstone yesterday, out of order though so I need to go back to Chapter one. It’s very intriguing just from what I read so far.

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Ah okay, I didn’t know that, I’m not a fan of time-travel but I know it is very popular in a lot of American literature and fiction since Mark Twain.

As to Ch 1, here it is if you want; https://canadianculturecorner.substack.com/p/brotherhood-of-the-gemstone-table

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