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Characters of Maldene: Po-Adar

A mad wizard, of whom one day Lord Chaos himself will say “That guy’s completely nuts!”, Po-Adar turns insanity into a fine artform. Shunned by nearly all races, and ugly enough that when he pulls away his hood the sight is considered an attack mode, he is nonetheless a powerful and knowledgeable wizard and one …

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Character Talk- Blag-ak

One of the secondary characters of Maldene, Blag-ak is a ten-foot tall ogre whose intelligence is about equal to his shoe size. Never able to string more than four words together at a time, he can be, nevertheless, a valuable asset in combat… as long as you know how to keep him aimed in the …

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Places On Maldene: The Farlands

Nearly a running gag throughout the series, the Farlands is aptly named. Its only natives are those whose ancestors landed there by way of being shipwrecked with no way off this little continent. Something like a crossbow would be considered a major artifact, and a single goblin holding one would be considered the local warlord …

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Races of Maldene: Thirdocians

Of the many races of Maldene, the sea-going amongst them are the Thirdocians. A stocky Human race born for the sea, by the time their young are old enough to leave the village they are already worthy seamen. The best sailors on the planet, a Thirdoaian ship is the first choice for crossing the storm-ridden …

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Character Talk- Eldar

An elf with a devil-may-care attitude, he will go into battle cracking wise, and gets a kick he more dangerous something is. In fact, a couple of novels in I finally had to invent a native Maldene word that would translate as “Hutzpa” specifically to describe Eldar. After all, how many people d you know …

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Places on Maldene: The Harbor of the World

The world of Maldene is a varied one, with a full range of terrain, magical places, and mysteries. That said, I thought I’d give a sneak-peak into some of that variety. One of the major ports of trade is the Harbor Of The World. Picture something the size of the Gulf of Mexico with the …

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Character Talk- Sabu

One of the main characters, Sabu is the young wizard who’s mind is nearly always lost in his own intellectualizations. Where others see a cloud drifting by and fanciful patterns, he will be calculating the wind patterns that made it that way. He can calmly calculate the trajectory of a spell required to vanquish an …

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What Makes Maldene Different?

So, with a plethora of fantasy and SF titles out there, what makes Maldene so unique? That would be the question that I love to answer. To put it simply, Maldene is a complete world, and so will feel as real to the reader as if Earth itself. Start with the basics. The map is …

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Combining Fantasy and Science Fiction in Your Writing

Most genre stories are either Fantasy, with wizards and magic swords, or Science Fiction, with space ships and ray guns. Very rarely do you ever find something that combines both, and even then it’s usually done very badly. The old “I got my wand and he has his ray gun” approach. So, how is one …

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Maldene Extras

Okay, so time for more hints, but this time it’s something you can download. If you go to the downloads page you’ll see a few things. While the map in the book is good, the one you can download has a lot higher resolution. The entire world (you could wrap it around a globe), with …

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