Category: Lore

Book 2 in the Skeltouch Saga will take our main character, Sinprejic, out into the world and away from his small town home of Arnoria. I have long had a large amount of conceptual material tucked away in corners of my brain regarding the various regions of the world I am creating. Although the wizards he meets in Metamancer are from other regions, wizards, as a rule, don’t discuss their origins, so I was spared most of the need to formalize and set details in stone.

While the students at the wizard’s academy will also be cagey about their past, I want to be sure that these inexperienced wizards-in-training have some slip-ups and tells that hint at their origins. Also, there will be some non-wizard folks encountered, and later books will visit more regions so I’m going to have to get those right to avoid contradicting myself later. As such, part of my work on the continuation of the series is further fleshing out of the wider world.

To keep my readers entertained and reward those who have subscribed during this process, I’ve decided to publish some subscriber-only posts detailing some of the world lore as it becomes semi-solid. Details may change before publication, but hopefully, the general feel will remain consistent.

Please don’t fear the subscription. Zmancy is not a huge evil company. Right now it’s just me and I have absolutely no use for your email aside from letting you know when I’ve posted something here, I’m attending an event or I (finally!) publish another book. Why have subscriber content at all? For the same reason as every other content creator… to entice you to provide an email I can use to let you know when I’ve created content. Without some way to communicate to my readers, I’m just posting into the void… which is of course fairly pointless.

However, unlike Patreon subscriptions, this one is 100% free.

The first such post will discuss this map of the duchy containing Arnoria, the town on which the first book is centered, ruled by Baron D’Arnor.