Recent content by Alexander

Lamellar armor would be a good choice. It's made of interlocking small rectangles of armor brought together with string or other binding agents into horizontal rows. It's been used all over the world (primarily in Asia and Eastern Europe), and from what I can tell about it (I have no firsthand...

Here's a website I found with information on the medieval era, including articles, maps, images, timelines, etc. I cannot say as to the veracity of the source, but I have found it to be useful in my writing. Medieval History Resources - Shadowed Realm

I remember, I can't recall exactly from where, a book that I had been reading talked about making good introductions. It suggested dialogue, or some piece of action being the first things to go into the novel. Personally, I try to start with a character speaking, asking a question, something of...

Thank you for all of the points. I found the idea of the 'Albasain Gentlemen's Club' to be of particular hilarity. This group is an openly recognized organization, however, so I feel that such a name would be out of place, as it's a sort of mix of the CIA, NSA, and the like, and it is public...

In the current book I'm writing, I'm needing to come up with a name for a nation's intelligence organization (spies, informants, the like). The nation is called Albasai, and a lot of the names come from a similar naming style (Ladao, Alioun, Arlona, etc.). I don't want to go with something like...

In a similar manner to what Snowpoint said, what I think could be useful is doing everything from the point of view of this protagonist and make it so that we can't understand quite what is going on. Humanity fears nothing more than what they don't know, so make this creature seem impossible by...