Omniverse One

Heck, if a noble decides to dabble in such arts themselves and acts as a conductor for a whole concert... You might like to read Mary Gentle's The Black Opera ;-) . It's funny that you mention Lord Byron because there's definitely a romantic ideal in Auriga where, as a noble armed with nothing but ...

Which is to say, any particular accomplished Aurigan may have unique entrance music. It could work the other way around as well; if Salieri isn't present the King of Hungary cannot have his entrance music, because no-one except the maestro can perform it with his exacting transhuman precision, and ...

The Palmaran Confederacy does not have a modern constitution; rather it operates on a complex system of ancient charters, privileges and liberties accrued over centuries. The Tertia ('Thirty') is an assembly of representatives from all six Palmaran counties. Its seats are unevenly divided along line...

https://image.ibb.co/kbrWfe/Palmara_map.png The Palmaran Confederacy , the Grace of Palmara, Cenn Fiachta , Alermiai , Kust Susayliqiya is a collection of six city-states in the north of the Astrafican continent. Each has its own ruler or system of government: the Nazhindri Mantrik in Dal Salona, t...

The map is essentially hand drawn in paint.net. I've tried those online fancy map generators for RPGs and such but they never come out quite looking the way I want them to :-) . Were environmental oddities, like radioactive weirdness and Stalkerisms... even Annihilations, officially added into the S...

- Minor updates to Palmara: the Confederacy now consists of the counties Aleramo, Dal Salona, Falcaras, Ferromonte, Ravane and Tingitane. - Western continent upon which Dai Xich is located tentatively named Yãxhia. - There is a region in the Silent Sea, possibly named Fygonesia by Daedaleans, compri...

An overview of the bodies of water that have been named so far, mostly so I can keep them straight.

That's just about the most perfect term ever.

These esoterics are applied in other lands and nations, with variations, I presume? That honestly remains to be resolved. San Dorado in many ways is distinct from its world, not least because it's been developing in my head for many years longer than much of the setting. The intention is to include...

There is no final draft of San Dorado. The city is as much a physical as it is a symbolic and mental construct. It is not so by accident. The early foundations of San Dorado were based on the six principle sacred hills, the relationship between the hills and the geometric impressions that emerged be...

Denizens, In the years of yesteryore there used to be a much different forum here. That place vanished in a spectacular crash that took with much that is now lost and only half-remembered. The people however sang songs of a legendary backup that was said to exist in a distant mythical land called Si...

I haven't seen the first Jurassic World and have no plans to see the sequel. Something about those movies (or rather their trailers) makes them look so... flavorless, repetitious and unnecessary. Here's the place with the dinosaurs in it, there's the big amoral corporation running it, big shock: the...

Yeah. We don't know what Dathomir is, if it's a town or a planet or a station, why Maul is there or why it's relevant. Earlier in Solo it's suggested that the crime syndicates are working with the Empire; is Maul? If so, why? There's nothing in any of the movies that suggests he's even alive after K...

Yeah I agree with that summary. It's an enjoyable movie, the setpieces were neat and I liked all the seedy underbelly of the galaxy stuff. It's definitely not bad. My main issue with it is that... Honestly, the character of Han Solo appears extremely stagnant to me. From the start of the film he's a...

The Fluster Located along Rushlight Street and the Miracle Mile on Shevirat the Fluster ('the Courts', ‘the Tables’ or less favourably 'the Dead End') is the main financial district of the city and a notable centre for worldwide trade, both historically and in the present day. The Fluster is a warr...

And I think that's the main part of what annoys me in your review, the meta aspect of it. It comments on a bunch of things that I personally feel are neither here nor there with regards to this movie - people who aren't in it, movies that are yet to follow, things you can glean from sources external...

I find it odd that you would insist on calling a movie with pretty much all the Avengers in it not an Avengers movie, just because there's not a scene where all of them show up in the same place. It's still the Avengers trying to stop Thanos by doing Avengers things, but it's not the Avengers becaus...

"We're not quite sure what happened to Las Vegas. We know some people made it out of ground zero of the event. We know we sent some people in that never came back, or when they did - well let's just say no-one came back and leave it at that. It helps me sleep at night. We tried other ways too:...

If you're in one of them otheroid countries where Annihilation just shows up on Netflix, you're in luck. 'Cause that's a frickin' cool movie. I got my dose of lingering slow-burn body horror, and some good old 2001-style 'what the fuck is this alien thingo and what's it want we dunno' to go with it....

That fight at least was genuinely exciting, because it was the first time you got to see all the Avengers cut loose in a well choreographed battle against nameless alienoid hordes. Seriously that shot where they zoom from Avenger to Avenger in one glorious continuous CGI splurgefest of a shot is st...

I really liked Black Panther, it was a fine and fun movie, but it still coulda done without the giant brawl at the end, especially since it felt like there was 20 minutes of politics and character work cut from the final act to make room for a typical superhero fight. So many scenes that went nowher...

They'll print anything these days.

No worries gentlemen, this is all just one small inaugural step in my nine-step plan to have Shirley Manson whisper sweet nothings in my ear. Yes, step six is world domination... Wait, what do you mean, 'wrong Bond movie'?

For the time being, anyway. After all, how would one know for sure that one has well and truly snuffed someone that knows the DIRE SECRETS OF SHANGRI-LA?

"I know my job, Hugh. I kill the sonovabitch that tries to crush the world. And then I kill the the next, and the next, and the next. That's what I do. I don't particularly like doing it, but I'm very good at it. I'll grant you, the theatrics of immortality didn't come as easy to me as they ca...