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World Rainforest Day

The rainforest is a vital biome of Earth.  For those that don’t know, it is a warm, rainy forest typically found around the equator.  There are some other really cool facts about rainforests: Rainforests cover about 7% of Earth’s non-oceanic … Continue reading

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Happy National Wildlife Day!

The title says it all.  It’s National Wildlife Day, so here are some fun pictures about it.  Also, what is your favorite animal?  I’m always torn between tigers, wolves, and red pandas.  Depends on my mood.

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Dumplings Across the Planet?

I promise to connect this to writing during this post.  First, I’m going to talk about something I mentioned on Monday.  It appears that nearly every culture has some form of dumpling.  Here I thought multiple cultures coming up with … Continue reading

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How Do Elementals Work?

Not sure how much steam this topic has since it’s rather niche.  Just something that popped into my head and I felt like writing about.  You see elementals in fantasy stories a lot, especially as summons.  So, maybe there is … Continue reading

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Available Now! ‘The Contract’ by John W. Howell & Gwen M. Plano #bookboost #fathersday

The CONTRACT between heaven and earth By John W. Howell & Gwen M. Plano Thank you, Charles, for inviting us to join you today. We are very grateful to be featured on your Legends of Windemere blog. Though Windemere is … Continue reading

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From Earth to Windemere: The Dawn Fangs’ Travels

Long ago, I had multiple worlds instead of just one or two.  Luke Callindor and the champions were in Windemere, the superheroes were in Super Earth, and Clyde had his vampires in another Earth.  It was all compartmentalized in my … Continue reading

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Elemental Uses: Earth Can Be Fun

The last of this element series is one that doesn’t get as much attention as the others because it has a lot of limitations.  Earth isn’t an element that can be rationalized very easily if it comes from the human … Continue reading

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Elemental Uses: Water the Tri-Form Element

Water users tend to fall into one of three categories with a third rarely showing up.  I’m going to divide it up that way instead of what I did before.  Mostly because water is an element that is infamous for … Continue reading

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Elemental Uses: The Versatile Wind

Unlike fire, wind is used with a lot of versatility.  Many times, you’ll find characters specializing in one style like flight, wind blasts, weather manipulation, or lightning.  That last one is a strange part because it’s a wind/fire combo, but … Continue reading

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Elemental Uses: Fire Is More Than Destruction

Today and next week, I’m going to be doing some posts on the classical Four Element system that gets used in magic a lot.  Not only going through the history, but showing various ways to use it.  Typically, you see … Continue reading

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