Eolas Pellor
@eolaspellor.bsky.social
Author Writing seriously since 2023. https://ko-fi.com/eolaspellor https://sites.google.com/view/eolaspellorwriter/home#h.tarw5zu9jdl5
My latest #shortstory is free on Substack. Based on a haunting picture of a street-urchin and the sort of stories my Grabdmother used to tell me when I was young, this is a story of one man stepping in to do the right thing that another man had failed to do eolaspellor.substack.com/p/adelaide
Adelaide
In which a young lawyer goes in search of a wealthy, widow's possible heir.
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Darzi-Ekh is the supreme deity. Whenever a character says "the Goddess" they nearly always mean her. Nidzi -- Mother Earth -- is second in rank, but her feast days are the most significant, since she nurtures all life. The lesser goddesses are invoked and revered to a lesser extent. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 18h ago#MythAugust 5 Today is about hierarchy! Who ranks highest or lowest among your gods/spirits/whatever? Is there a consensus about this ranking? As usual, interpret the question as loosely as you need to to fit your specific worldbuilding, and feel free to skip if it's not relevant to you! 😊❤️
This has to be the thing on BlueSky I find both puzzling and amusing. No explanation as to why you were blocked, and honestly I don’t care. They never let me sit at the “cool kids” table in high school and I didn’t give a crap, either. I’m autistic people have cutting me out for 60+ years
There are no factions in my fantasy religion. At least not yet? Still in the process of designing it! So it's possible that there will be at some point. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago#MythAugust 4 Today, tell me about the different factions among your gods/spirits. Think like the Æsir & Vanir in Norse mythology, or angels & demons in Christianity. What's their relationship? Are they sworn enemies? Sometimes allies? Interpret the question however makes sense for your story!
Look, it's the driving force of my series after about 1/3 of the way through book 1! Since the dawn of humanity, gods have struggled for power. In the Archnean empire, the sun god, Sol, and his allies (who is an ally has shifted and continies to shift) have enough of a hold on the population to...
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago#MythAugust 4 Today, tell me about the different factions among your gods/spirits. Think like the Æsir & Vanir in Norse mythology, or angels & demons in Christianity. What's their relationship? Are they sworn enemies? Sometimes allies? Interpret the question however makes sense for your story!
#MythAugust 4 #TimeTravelingGhost is dualist, so good is opposed to evil. We haven't seen any organized forces of good, but on the other side we have: The Lapin Cabal, Illuminati, Templars, and Illuminated Ones. All the rest of my works are polytheistic and animistic, so things are chaotic.
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago#MythAugust 4 Today, tell me about the different factions among your gods/spirits. Think like the Æsir & Vanir in Norse mythology, or angels & demons in Christianity. What's their relationship? Are they sworn enemies? Sometimes allies? Interpret the question however makes sense for your story!
There aren't main factions, but Khaluun did cut himself off from the rest of the gods (and also mortals) years ago. He cast most of the gods out of his court to wander the world. #mythaugust #writesky
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago#MythAugust 4 Today, tell me about the different factions among your gods/spirits. Think like the Æsir & Vanir in Norse mythology, or angels & demons in Christianity. What's their relationship? Are they sworn enemies? Sometimes allies? Interpret the question however makes sense for your story!
The Goddess is opposed by the Dark One, but the average believer knows nothing about them. The Dark One is used as an imprecation, but no one precisely knows why, though there are hints Darkness was written out of the scriptures at some point. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago#MythAugust 4 Today, tell me about the different factions among your gods/spirits. Think like the Æsir & Vanir in Norse mythology, or angels & demons in Christianity. What's their relationship? Are they sworn enemies? Sometimes allies? Interpret the question however makes sense for your story!
Kyoka: It's insanely convoluted and detailed. Every spell is broken down into minutiae that human scholars realize revolutionize the study of magic. The emotional moments completely neck-snap the tone into frantic, teenage live journaling/diary writing. "OMG HIMARI SO CUTE" etc.🧵 #AwesomeCharacters
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d agoTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character is writing their memoirs! How honest are they being? Are they playing up their heroism and the drama? Are they leaving anything out? Why? What tone will it have? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#MythAugust 3. Åskirā are described as “benevolent,” but it's more complex than that when you have, among others, a protector goddess whose rage can cause reckless destruction, a battle goddess whose grudges can lead to wars, and a god responsible for creating the kulakan—the demons. #ValkīforSaga
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️
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In the Cruel Gods series, each god has their own sense of morality that they expect their mortals to follow. Failure to do so can result in punishment. But there is also a covenant between gods and mortals, alongside shared universal sins, that all must obey. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️
In my Loki books, Loki is on a mission to "become good" and is allocated "virtue points" by a simulation of Odin that's trapped in his diary. But Odin's own behaviour is often self serving and honestly he shouldn't be the arbiter of what's good in any way. #Mythaugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️
#MythAugust 3 One thing I'm trying to approach is how the gods' morality reflects their people's (my fundie upbringing gets in the way here tbh). Exception being nature spirits, who are just kinda there and do their own thing. They do not need to be worshipped like a god, just respected.
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️
#MythAugust Alright this ones gonna be slightly weird since the morality of gods who are completely immortal, separate from reality (the major ones anyway) and separate from time who make the very concept of the thing they are the god of is weird.
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️
#MythAugust 2 In Na'aqal mythology, there are around 100 known gods & countless minor spirits/demons. Ba'oaxa the Thunder God was the first, & from him came 11 Elemental Gods (the Ba'oaxanaan). They then gave birth to 50 more gods, the Aldenaan (dream-born), who make up the main pantheon... 🧵1/3
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 4d ago#MythAugust Day 2 Tell us about the major god(s) or spirit(s) in your fantasy religion! This is meant to be a broad overview - we'll have focused questions for specific gods later! Feel free to interpret the question as loosely as you need to if you aren't working with a traditional pantheon 😁
Moral and ethical, though the Temple -- intertwined with the government -- twists that into the sort of righteousness that has allowed them to do what they want and claim it is the Goddess' will. This leads some to reject the Goddess entirely. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️
The USA has a long history of doing this. You have to stop thinking of Trump as an aberration, he’s a reversion to type. Even your best Presidents, like FDR, we’re not above using executive orders to enrich their supporters (eg the seizing of Japanese property and businesses in 1941)
Marc Riggsbee@marcriggsbee.bsky.social · 3d agoHeed the warning.
The Goddess Darzi-Ekh -- the Sun -- is the the chief deity. Nidzi -- Mother Earth -- is the second most important goddess, not quite as important but almost. There are a number of lesser goddesses as well. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 4d ago#MythAugust Day 2 Tell us about the major god(s) or spirit(s) in your fantasy religion! This is meant to be a broad overview - we'll have focused questions for specific gods later! Feel free to interpret the question as loosely as you need to if you aren't working with a traditional pantheon 😁
The religion is state-sanctioned and features a paramount Goddess and subordinate goddesses under her. There is no male deity — the entire idea would strike the characters in my story as ludicrous. #MythAugust
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d agoHello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️
Just the word count, for the most part, especially when doing the first draft. Later on other things become important, like trying to determine if the plot points fall in the “right” spot. #PretendPanel
Kara Moon 🏴☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 5d agoI'm back, #pretendpanel ! And thanks to @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social I've got another month of questions 💜 so let's go... August 1st: Do you use data visualization to track your writing progress? What does that look like for you? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#PretendPanel 7/31: As many of you will know, I released my debut sci-fi romance, The Stars Will Be Our Ocean, this past month. I'm so proud of the work that went into it, so grateful to everyone who supported me along the way or read the finished piece. Links in the replies!
Lizzie Blackwood@lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 6d agoIt's been a privilege hosting for you all this month, #PretendPanel! As is tradition, this final Friday of July is a Freebie Friday! Share or ask anything you like, and make sure to check other people's responses and answer their questions as well. 💜 See you in August!
Thanks @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social for doing a great job this month! It’s thinks like PretendPanel that keep me coming back #PretendPanel
Lizzie Blackwood@lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 6d agoIt's been a privilege hosting for you all this month, #PretendPanel! As is tradition, this final Friday of July is a Freebie Friday! Share or ask anything you like, and make sure to check other people's responses and answer their questions as well. 💜 See you in August!
This is priceless!! I treasure people whose sense of humour is strong enough to be able to laugh at themselves.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6d agoNo professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
#QueryTrenches #AmQuerying Just got a rejection....for a query sent May 15, 2025. That's right, 443 days later -- 1 year, 2 months, and 16 days. Just imagine if an author took that long to respond to an agent...
A short story -- the second one I ever got published -- about freedom, love and youth, and poor decisions. open.substack.com/pub/eolaspel...
"By the Cherry Tree"
Freedom has a price
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#PretendPanel Ambivalent! Unless it's like, little modifications the author made to each specific copy, at which point I go from "huh" to
Lizzie Blackwood@lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy Saturday, #PretendPanel! With special limited edition print releases being something of an industry staple these days, how do YOU feel about special artistic embellishments on book exteriors? This can be alternate covers, special finishes, sprayed edges, anything above and beyond in print.
I think sprayed edges are neat! But tbh selling special editions with alt covers and limited releases just feels like a cash grab most of the time.
Lizzie Blackwood@lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy Saturday, #PretendPanel! With special limited edition print releases being something of an industry staple these days, how do YOU feel about special artistic embellishments on book exteriors? This can be alternate covers, special finishes, sprayed edges, anything above and beyond in print.
Edge painting/drawing always struck me as rather neat, as did gilding, back in the day. But its not much of a factor in whether I buy a book or not...buying two, less expensive titles has always appealed to me more than buying a single title with bells and whistles. #PretendPanel
Lizzie Blackwood@lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy Saturday, #PretendPanel! With special limited edition print releases being something of an industry staple these days, how do YOU feel about special artistic embellishments on book exteriors? This can be alternate covers, special finishes, sprayed edges, anything above and beyond in print.
