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Category Archives: Forging a character

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Forging a world: Shadow and Light

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Tomas

In today’s post, I will return to sharing the details behind the creation of my fictional universe. Today, it’ll be focused on how I employ the Shadow vs. Light theme and its background.

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Forging characters: parent-child relationships pt.2

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Tomas

Continuing where I left off two weeks ago, today, I’ll look into the parent-child relationships in my writing project. As before, headers will be for the child’s name.

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Forging characters: parent-child relationships pt.1

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Tomas

A while ago, I looked into parent-child relationships in fiction. Today, I’ll look into some examples from my own project and share a bit of background. For clarity, the child’s name will be used for the headers.

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Forging a character: Tyr’eshal

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Tomas

After exploring most main and some second-tier characters, I’m coming around to the story of forging the very MC – and definitely the longest ‘making of’ story.

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Forging characters: the Marshwalkers

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Tomas

This time, I’ll look into the creation of not one, but three characters: the Marshwalker family, for the simple reason they’ve been created together.

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Forging a character: Captain Damian

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Tomas

In my elf-centric story, Captain Damian was the first major human character. Even though his beginnings were humble (regarding his presence in the story), he became a major supporting character. Today, I’ll look into the process of creating him.

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Forging a character: Queen Illeana

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Tomas

The queen was, for a long time, a minor character compared to the role of her husband, King Venelaos, or her daughter, Princess Nadyenne. Yet, as I developed the backstory, she gained some degree of importance – not one to take her to the spotlight but one that makes her an integral part of the story due to her heritage.

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Forging a character: Etian Windwalker

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Tomas

While I’ve planned to have a shaman in my story since the late concept stage, it took some time before a shaman character with a significant appearance was created – in the form of Etian Windwalker.

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Forging a character: Ellisia

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Tomas

The development of Ellisia mirorred that of Kraasian Darkwood for a long time. They were a pair from the start and they develped as one. Eventually, there were some other aspects I managed to show through her.

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Forging a character: King Venelaos

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Tomas

Today, I return to share some background about developing a character. King Venelaos is one of the oldest characters in my work-in-progress fantasy. After all, what kind of fantasy world does not have someone to rule it? And, as it is with the oldest characters, he had a lot of time to grow.

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