Tag Archives: fantasy

Mab: The Dark Mistress

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

Mab is the only character from War of Nytefall who has already been introduced to readers.  She appeared in Legends of Windemere: The Mercenary Prince and kind of helped Delvin.  This showed an older, more mature, not as friendly version of this … Continue reading →

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Elemental Uses: Water the Tri-Form Element

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

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

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

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

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

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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Clyde: Progenitor of the Dawn Fangs

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

War of Nytefall is very much about Clyde because he was the first character I came up with and the adventure is based around him.  He is a vampiric thief whose execution by the Followers of the Sun is interrupted … Continue reading →

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2017 Top 5: #2- Powers of the Windemere Sea: Magnificent Mappers

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

This post originally went live on May 19. There is a third group that is specific to the sea that is neither navy nor pirate.  They might be found with those other two groups, but they are unique because of … Continue reading →

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Profiles in Sun and Blood: Characters of ‘War of Nytefall’

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

Next Thursday will start the War of Nytefall character profiles in order to introduce the 13 main characters.  You’ll get to learn about their origins, personality, and a little bit about their roles without getting into spoilers.  I don’t have pictures for … Continue reading →

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Characters of Windemere Art by Kayla Matt

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

Here’s another set of characters from Legends of Windemere drawn by Kayla Matt.  I put them in a slideshow for space and hope everyone enjoys.

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War of Nytefall: Loyalty Cover Teaser

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

While it might be a few months away, I have a preliminary sketch for the War of Nytefall: Loyalty cover. The artist is Alison Hunt and the idea is to do a symbol for each cover. Enjoy.

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When More Than a Sword or Axe Will Do

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

First of all, my wife is the one who introduced me to this movie that we own, watched once, and I still can’t remember.  One of those really corny fantasy ones that involved finding a special weapon to save the … Continue reading →

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