I love how I'm listed first as moderator.

At least someone knows who truly 'reigns? here. ;)

I tease. :)

Just as a clarification, I'm only listed as a moderator so I can help Knightfall get his folder in order from an OOC perspective. Knightfall works and plays with many players, so I can only lay claim IC to the parts of his stories that are done with Fiona. The credit for the other stories in this folder goes to the extremely talented writers of those characters. As such, all are welcome to post in Reigns, play with the history and settings related to Alluvius, and expand on the ever growing list of contributors. :) Got a question' Just ask.

Congratulations!

Joining in with congratulations on the new folder! :-)

I already said this, but I'm super glad to see this folder and excited to see what you do with it! Congrats!

After a ....semi-long absence....I'm back again.

Another harvest season finished, and just when I think I can't mislike farming any more than I already do, when I think its gotten as bad as it could possibly get....my expectations are blown away. :p

Now to stop scratching my brow at the unholy miasma of work I started right before I left, and actually get around to accomplishing some of it.

I wanted to draw extra attention to some special posts made a couple weeks ago, in case you missed them....

DevilishOne began her own summaries thread in Of Wind and Myth:OOC. She kicks off the thread with incredibly detailed information about "A GreenStone Tale" and "Elven Journal". I can't wait to see the rest of the entries for her A GreenStone Tale folder.

Claire Farron made a A Table of Contents for what seems like the whole Lux Aeterna folder, from "Duo Corda, Unum Animam: Memoriis" to "Press Statement: Dragon's Gate Orphanage". What a daunting task! But she pulled it out perfectly.

Now that my own summary thread is up to date, I should probably do the same with the Reigns folder. We'll see. :P

Kudos to both ladies! :)

Fiona grew up as a Roman Catholic because the small island where she was born is deeply rooted in Catholic history. "The islanders are all practicing Roman Catholics." The monastery there was founded by one of the three patron saints of Ireland. "The island is sacred to St. Columba and very proud of its association with the saint." Read more about Tory Island's Religious Culture.

I reference St. Columba in my latest post to "Give Up the Ghost". Fiona refers to him as Colm Cille. I did this because this is his Irish name and baptismal name, which means "church dove?. In addition to his religious foundations for Tory Island, he also has several ties to the Neill family. I explored these ties in my post. Read more about him on Wikipedia and New Advent.

St. Columba or Columkille of lona was born in 521, at Gartan, in Donegal. He belonged to the Northern Hy Neill, his father being grandson of Conall Gulban son of Niall of the Nine Hostages; but he gave up all the worldly advantages of his high birth for religion. In the year 546 he built the monastery of Derry; after which, during the next fifteen years, he founded a great number of churches and monastery all over the country, among others those of Kells Swords, Tory Island, Lambay near Dublin, and Durrow in King's county, the last of which was his chief establishment in Ireland.

Source: http://www.irelandhistory.org/irish-history/ireland-irish-history/religion-and-learning.html

Absolutely loving Lightfall. It's a wonderful collaboration and I'm excited to keep reading!

I wanted to share some story summaries that I added to my Of A White Lady thread. I've worked on three projects so far this year, so I thought it was about time to add them to the list. Once I develop a few more, I will probably add another post to help break up the different stories of Fiona's life in Rhydin.

The first project I began this year was in February with "Give Up the Ghost". This is a practice writing exercise for me to, in a way, begin to write out Fiona's back story. Instead of writing it out in its entirety, I thought it might be a neat concept to have Fiona reminisce about her past, during the present. It is still a work in progress, but I do chip away at it here and there when I'm inspired. Since it highlights her past, it is not as high of a concern versus my more currently relevant projects.

Also in February, I started "Through Light and Shadow" with Shea Greenstone. In the story, Fiona meets Shea in a chance meeting in the woods surrounding Bristle Crios while Shea was on her way home to Rhydin from a battle in her homeland of Ehdel Ndor. Upon first sight, Shea incorrectly recognizes Fiona as a fire mage from her past. Both women go on the alert. Read the story to find out if the scene turned into a combative situation.

In May, I began "The Hallowed Manor" with Zynisch Lucis. A wrathful set of armor named Yakumo comes to find Fiona working in her office at Eternal House at Bristle Crios not long after she felt his malicious, otherworldly presence enter the grounds. Zynisch Lusic, member of Eternal House and professor at the Academy of Bristle Crios, emerged from the armor in an incorporeal ghostly spirit form to ask for her assistance. Read the story to find out more about his request.

Hey! I just wanted to point out an upcoming special date.

Happy one year anniversary to the RoA folder on Wednesday, September 9th.

Hey friends, readers, and all you other folks. Just a couple things I wanted to mention while they're still germane in terms of time frame. :)

Gubernatorial Race 2016

Seems like it started fast, but that could be my own hectic schedule. Congrats to everyone who chose to participate; what a colorful bunch of characters this year for sure.

Special mention obviously to the three finalists, in no particular order, Katt Batten, Ammy Spiritor, and Francis Collins. I'm not going to throw support behind any one candidate here (I vote by determining who each of my characters would likely support, and the person that gets the most of their support gets my vote - generally), but I think the three of you would each fill the role well, in your own ways (that's to the characters, and players both).

I really don't want to single anyone out, either, but I have to mention the Humanity First movement. Very interesting approach to the Governor SL, and just in general. I was speaking with someone OOC about the HF movement, and I mentioned that they (Francis Collins et al) were a villain, and the person I was speaking with countered that they were just misunderstood. For the record, I think that's almost the hallmark of all villainy. Not -all-, but almost all. Somewhere along the line, I think, there's usually a fork in the road that a character (PC, NPC, storyline itself even) that hinges on some form of misunderstanding. On one side of the fork you have heroes, anti-heroes, and the like, while on the other side you start a progress towards villainy - though your speed on that path may vary.

Please don't take any of the above as criticism either, it's more a commentary. I find what you're doing both provocative and fitting to the times we live in - and obviously by the returns from the first ballot, you're commanding fair attention from it, which is certainly your due. While it's unlikely that my characters in their majority (none are real 'humans', even if they could pass themselves off) would vote for Collins, I'm really interested to see where this goes.

THAT being said, anyone swayed by what I just said, to vote for HF, should really check out the other two contenders. You'd be doing a disservice to yourself, and your characters by not doing so.

Lame Duck Governor

Alright. So the election is in full swing. But what about the old, new guy?

Here's looking at you, Ebon. :)

Not to sound a stalker, but although I wasn't around as much as I've wanted to be, I've kept tabs (literally, in the case of web browsers) on what?s been going on. Congrats on a great run as Gov., I think in the very least you provided a lot of much needed stability to the Governorship, and the associated SL, and were definitely the driving force in keeping it alive - and off of life support, even - so that it could still be going today.

In retrospect, the title I chose for this section was misleading. I don't know how the elections work here, if its immediate change or if there's a period where you (Ebon) are still the Gov and there's a Gov elect. At any rate, you definitely have proved yourself to be the opposite of a lame duck, I would say, during your tenure. So, without -more- fuss, again - congrats.

Happy Anniversary

Ok, last, and ....I'd say not least, but that would be unnecessarily egocentric; happy anniversary to our little folder here, those who've written in it - and also those who are reading!

I can't tell you how many WTF moments I've had upon glancing into the folder and noticing the view counts attributed to some of the threads (here's looking at you, Rising Son readers - whoever you are). Thanks for your continued support and patronage, like I said earlier in this post, I'm not around nearly as much as I'd like to be, but on the other hand I'm not disappearing either.

So, cheers to that, and to all of you.

-K

Waves and hellos to the lovely folder you all have here. Sorry it's taken me so long to get to it and reading things. Happy to see you all doing well and belated Happy anniversary for your folder!

Seeing this is where a few people are active that I'd like to bounce a budding idea off of, I'll post it here and if I need to redirect elsewhere I will be happy to do so.

I've been sitting a lot on my hands with Ammy teaching things since, well, a lot has fallen apart in my life in the real world. Much has been put into reassembly. That said, I am enjoying having her a student but my long time rp mate mentioned that it may be time she just bites the bullet and teaches a class again. She threw an idea at me and I want to in turn, bounce it here and see if it is something that has merit.

She suggested, that Ammy, being a deity of sorts, attempt to teach a fun, open minded class that aims to discuss and explore varied deities and gods in how they are structured, how their powers may function or work, etc. As well as to show how quite a few deity 'types' can be just as normal and fallible as any mortal. A basic 101 sort of Deitology to see how various realms could consider something divine but not be focused on any religious view points of the deities themselves. What would you all think?

Thank you for the response. I will copy and post my original post to the BC OCC thread and if you don't mind, Knightfall, may I in include your post as an initial response as well? I think perhaps I was wondering how the A&M class was discussed enough in the early stages of thought before being offered. I think that is where I have missed a step.

Friends, Writers, Forum-folk,

So, tempus fugit and all that, eh' In the process of making my return from yet another savage, metaphorical, beating. I finally find myself with the time to work on things and play again after not posting for a couple of months " several things have been in the editors docket but haven't had the time to finish them.

Expect to see a return to, and near conclusion of, Fringe Sojourn in the next few weeks, along with a finishing out of the Bloodlines FAQ. The latter is a case of knowing what I want to write, but not necessarily knowing how to say it; after looking away for a bit, it's come back " somewhat " into focus.

Obviously, for those of you reading or playing along at Bristle Crios in the A&M Theory thread, something is coming down the pipe for that as well " hopefully by this weekend. I apologize for the time it's taken me to get back to it " my inability to move it forward is one of my current great annoyances. I'll make it up to you " somehow. :)

Finally, for any of you who keep reading or re-reading Rising Son, I have to ask: what is it, the fact that you can't figure out who the son is" The reason for the continually rising view count has been a subject of some amusing discussion between myself and the co-author, and I'm here to tell you: we kind of forgot to state it explicitly, so you'll have to wait for the follow up ? also in the works.

As always, Best regards, K

If anyone hasn't seen Senka's amazing Confessions art series yet, be sure to check them out.

They are beautiful sketches based on character confessions of their deepest secrets.

Here I thought the first one was always going to be my favorite, but wow, this new set is just as amazing. I can't wait to see what the next set will bring!

Hello from a ghost in the wind.