Choice of Rebels Part 1 WIP thread

[Havenstone]

Just wrote a bit over on the PoC thread about how I envision the Shayardenes as having some shade of brown skin, but don’t want to get too explicit about it. Thoughts?

What about PoC?

My own epic fantasy WiP, Choice of Rebels, has a Euro-esque early modern cultural setting – surprise surprise. It could have been quite different; it was based in part on a years-long D&D campaign I ran in the late '90s/early '00s which ranged through fantasy versions of China, India, and Tibet. But while it was a lot of fun to tell, that particular rebellion-against-the-empire story was in retrospect so shot through with D&D tropes (dakini as vengeful desert elves, yeti as orcs) and orientali…