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The Redemption of Erâth: History of Erâth – The Third Age (Part II)

(ii) The New Realm of Men

The War of Darkness left indelible changes on the kingdoms of Thaeìn also. The populations withdrew into their towns and cities, and men travelled less and less. The edges of their territories grew wild, and the creatures of darkness encroached on their lands. The trees and forests grew and expanded, and the dominion of men grew ever smaller, until there remained in each kingdom only one place worthy of being called a city. Many of the other towns were abandoned and left to ruin, or inhabited by such sparse populations that the town was barely kept alive.

Out of the gladness of their victory grew eventually a kind of grim resignation; little had changed since before the War, and much was worse than it had been. The kingdoms of Thaeìn grew apart, and then grew bitter. Sadness filled the hearts of men, and the ages of glory seemed lost forever.

The Fall of the Dragon Lords

In the North, the realm of the Dragon Lords found itself in ruins. They too felt the decline of Thaeìn, and the loss of their king and his Dragon was a blow from which they did not recover. […]

Read the complete section here.

The Redemption of Erâth: New Maps of Erâth

I’ve been working on creating a few more maps of Erâth, to help people get orientated in their way around Consolation! These three are maps of all of Erâth, the land of Thaeìn, and Consolation, respectively.

Enjoy!

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Thought of the Week: Pandemonious Pumpkin Juice, Batman – I’ve Been Freshly Pressed!

Wow! It finally happened! Though in truth I never actually expected it.

Out of the blue last week, I got an email from WordPress telling me that one of my posts had been chosen to be featured on Freshly Pressed. I pretty much thought it was a hoax.

And since for a few days nothing seemed to happen, I started dismissing it. Though I was secretly kind of nervous.

But then, on Saturday morning, I woke up to find I had three hundred hits. Three hundred. My typical number per day is about two.

Naturally, I rushed over to Freshly Pressed, and sure enough, there at the top of the page was my post! It was like, super wow!

That Saturday, I got 885 hits. In June, for the entire month, I got 775.

Off the back of this one Freshly Pressed article, I got 100 comments, 72 new followers, countless likes, and met some new fellow bloggers that I would likely never have come across otherwise.

So I have two simple, enormous thanks to give.

  1. Thank you to WordPress for featuring my article. I was honored by your faith in my writing, and the consideration that other people would enjoy it.
  2. Thank you even more to every single person who stopped by, read, liked, commented and followed me. I am simply blown away by the support, the kindness, the thoughtful comments, and most of all the sheer number of you that have enjoyed what I had to say. Thank you, thank you so much!

And that’s really all I have to say this week. You are incredible – every single one of you!