Recent content by MSadiq

I try from time to time to press information from old people to secretly add to my story because of similar reasons, lol. They have a unique perspective of the past, as they had lived it. My grandfather—who is West Asian—was watching a WW2 documentary, and the thing he points out, not the...

Reminds me of Delicious in Dungeon, though humans don't lack magic; elves just have the highest capacity. The elves in DD definitely have a very strong political power because of it, too.

This reminds of Caligo from Nightreign. It's an ice Dragon, and when you get it into phase 2, the sky changes, but you don't really notice the REAL change until the fight ends, and that's the giant eye that takes a whole side of the sky. You've been fighting a projection of her this whole time.

I wasn't clear in my post; I wrote it as a stream of consciousnesses, which isn't the best thing, lol, but this isn't what I meant. I thought it was weird to call them that when they're all white, as to use fair in the sense of pale, though now I very certain he meant it in either two ways, one...

I went with something inspired by a book called Elves in Anglo-Saxon England. I based it not on the descriptions of the elves, not exactly, but based on what the word elf denoted, as the book argues, which is very convincing, and where they lived in the Anglo-Saxon world view as described. My...

I think the most shocked I've been with "newer" media's depiction of elves is in Divinity Original Sin 2. They have a cannibalistic aspect to them. They can eat some of you to read your memories. I sure it's not something Larian invented, but it was novel at the time. Though, it makes me wish...

That's not what I meant, and my fault because people keep interpreting it this way. What I meant is that the choice to use fair and foul is very interesting because they bot can and do describe appearance and some moral characteristics. And I thought about it after posting, but I think that by...

I know it's not. I'm just talking about my first impression upon reading the foul and fair passage and how that's not really how it is, and I don't doubt it is more complex. What I really wanted to get across is the fair and foul word choices with their double meaning are super interesting and...

I want to preface this by saying I'm experiencing LotR for the first time; I've never read the books—not until now, where I'm at the chapter after the Council of Elrond—and I've never watched the movies. However, this is not to say I'm unaware of anything regarding it. I've consumed a good...

Translation is a separate art from writing. For a good translation, you'll have to do away with any machine translations. I have done many kinds of translations in college as part of different courses, and I can tell you definitely that machine translations are, at best, mediocre. They can...

It helps to visualize the relative size and location of your different geographies and locations, but it doesn't have to be detailed, really. The "map" that I made for my own use is a bunch of labeled triangles with different line shapes and thicknesses to mark the biomes, placed and sized...

I think it's more accurate to say that he was fond of anything that's traditional of England, not in any xenophobic way. As a matter of fact, he was an avid hater of empire. He hated the Roman empire, not Rome, and the British empire, but not England because he didn't want the traditions of...

It's a Lovecraft invention. Supposedly the mad "Arab," Abdul Alhazared, which means nothing. It's literally Servant of the (abdul) the Hazred (not a real word). The book, in the made up history, is called Al Azif, which is the sound of wind picking up sand, but Lovecraft gives it some other...

I know you said you were deployed to the Middle East, but it's surprising that you can read such literarily perverted titles, which I assume so, and impressive, I might say.

Lexicon is the closet thing, in Modern English, but if you want to adapt an Old English term, wordhoard is the closet thing to thesaurus.