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2012-01-04T07:45:00.001-08:00

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2012-01-04T02:36:00.000-08:00

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2011-12-23T01:41:00.000-08:00

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2011-12-20T00:28:00.001-08:00

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2011-12-07T16:16:00.000-08:00

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2011-12-07T04:17:00.001-08:00

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Medusa and Athena

2011-12-06T19:59:00.001-08:00

By Glenn Hefley © 2011It is difficult to transcribe, from across time, the myths of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, even more difficult to grasp the full meaning. All that we can do is attempt to understand the myths from what we know about the people, the culture and the values those people had at the time of the telling. We also have to keep in mind, especially with the Ancient myths, that

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2011-12-04T21:27:00.000-08:00

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Keeping it going

2011-12-03T10:37:00.001-08:00

Keeping a relationship going is a daily thing, but I was suprised to discover the advice of Dr. Gary Neuman in his book Connect to Love suggested that what women really want is time spent with their spouse. Of all the things we talk about women wanting, according to a vast amount of research, time with their spouse is number one. The majority of women in happy relationships get 30 minutes of

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2011-12-02T01:38:00.001-08:00

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2011-12-01T04:36:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-28T02:48:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-24T01:33:00.000-08:00

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2011-10-22T20:21:00.001-07:00

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2011-10-07T17:18:00.001-07:00

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Jephthah

2011-10-03T15:56:00.000-07:00

For me, the most horrific part of the Jephtha story is the way that priests, religions and even scholars insist on pushing this blame onto Jephtha himself -- posting this as a Rash Vow to God. Which is complete BS as near as I can tell, after re-reading the story several times. Since the 18th century, some scholars have questioned the traditional interpretation of Jephthah's sacrifice of his

Facebook Lockup

2011-10-03T06:58:00.001-07:00

My account on Facebook is locked up. Has been most of the night. So if you don't see me on there for a while, its because I have no access. Not really happy about the fact either. Facebook has not been the most stable of systems lately and when I think about putting more time and effort into placement and advertising, Facebook is not at the top of my list.

Yes, I hear you and I Apathize

2011-10-02T01:24:00.000-07:00

This idea hit me in the forehead this evening and I can't seem to get it out, so I guess I'm going to have to write it out. apathize (verb) - to actively show no interest in something, or anything - the act of intentional attention failure - to not care usage: It's normal for people to empathize with those in trouble, but all he does is apathize when someone else is struggling. On the

Santa Claus is in town???

2011-09-28T21:48:00.000-07:00

Can someone please tell me why Santa Claus is backing his fat Ass up into September?Took this at CVS tonight... It is still September! WTF mate!I understand that we should have the Christmas spirit all year long, but this is really going too far... it is seriously embarrassing Christmas is so commercialized that we except this level of advertisement for the holiday.Even if you are not a

Cairn - Rock Piles

2011-09-26T22:59:00.000-07:00

No matter what I am writing about, whatever subject matter I wish to apply to a fictional scene, some one out there is a total geek on the subject. I'm very fond of those people.Cairn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile of stones. It comes from the Irish: carn (plural cairn) or Scottish Gaelic: càrn (plural càirn).

Family First

2011-09-25T02:53:00.000-07:00

"Sure would be easier if Grandfather was dead.""Did you just wish our grandfather killed?""No. I just said it would be easier.""That's horrible!""Why? It’s not like he's more than money these days.""Jeffery! What has gotten into you? You can't possibly be so cruel!""Why is that cruel? I am just being sensible. Besides, it’s no worse than killing your husband.""That's got nothing to do with it!""

Brighter Than I Am

2011-09-24T18:43:00.000-07:00

Your eyes in the morning; bright, wonderful and clear. The happiness in them as you look at me. Your smile is almost as bright in the rising golden sun. You have just woken, half of your face still buried in the pillow, so you don’t yet remember all of the disappointments, or the heart breaks. You only remember you love me. Today I am going to be more, change, move with greater power and focus.

The Fountain of Jephthah's Daughter

2011-09-01T18:56:00.000-07:00

The sky is bloody, like a burn festering with black and sand. There is no sun, no moon, no clear sky to see the stars. Cold iron walls the garden with spike posts and bars. Forty by forty by forty by forty the rose trees stand in staggered bloom dark with thorns they grow from pure white sand, stark and bold the grains hum in the wind and sing when walked on. No stone, no gray mar

Save Energy and Avoid the Blob thing

2011-07-28T02:46:00.000-07:00

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The Bone Dress of 1938

2011-05-29T11:12:00.000-07:00

I've been doing some fast research on the fashions of Death motif, for the Urken Biotch novel series and came across more than I thought i was going to come up with. For some reason I had it in my head that 'serious' designers weren't going to toy with a Death design. Again, I find that I am far from correct, which is why I still do research. This design is from 1938 and was created by a woman

Blood Concept Fragrance

2011-05-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

An Italian fragrance firm is releasing a line of unisex eau de perfumes called Blood Concept based on the four different blood groups, A, B, AB, and O. Which should let us know how far Italians will go to get an edge... ewe Debuted at Esxence 2011, a perfumery trade show, in Milan and will go on sale some time in September. All versions of the blood-scented fragrance has a hint of metallic

Zombie Frog -- I loved you!

2011-05-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

The Zombie Frog is made-to-order. How can anyone resist the Zombie Frog? It says so much with so little... and loosing more all the time. It truly is a gift that says.. something Can't wait to get my very own Zombie Frog!

Giant Human Bones!

2010-12-01T17:41:00.000-08:00

La mort du fossoyeur (Death of the gravedigger) by Carlos Schwabe In the year 5607 (1847), the Arabs, on digging near this grave, found a deep vault full of gigantic human bones, which excited the astonishment of every one at the great stature of the persons, the remains of whom they were. The Pacha forbade farther digging, and the cave was again closed up. http://www.jewish-history.com/

Outlines vs. MindMapping

2010-11-30T05:36:00.000-08:00

I was asked yesterday if I outlined my stories, and no, I really don't. However I do use the mind-mapping tools extensively. (Within Me the Other bleeds -- map using FreeMind format) On my laptop I use Freemind, as well as Mindjet MindManager Pro. On my iPad I am currently using MindMeister, because it was the best one I have found so far. When I say “best” however, this is a very subjective

Thought about happiness

2010-07-13T15:42:00.000-07:00

I find it increasingly interesting, that at this point in our history our power, technology and ability makes the Greek pantheon look like babes by comparison, and yet our knowledge of happiness is no more than the understanding acquired by Aristotle.

Nocturne

2010-06-24T19:46:00.001-07:00

-- From Sleeping with Nefarious Intent As your nocturnal neighbor, I slide next to you in Winter, whispering across your breath, the South Wind's wildest words. When dawn warms the window glass, and marmalade flame transverse the ceiling, I carefully caress your lips with thinly sliced strawberry, and mango until you smell the fresh roast brewing in the kitchen and are ready to brace against the

A Cardiac Episode

2010-06-16T17:45:00.001-07:00

There is a hollow carved in me,an area created by hepatic knurling.A space which serves as a hospicefor my Care, and Hope. A place where these twoare given warm towelslight but tasty food, and 236 channels of cable TVfor entertainment while theywait and bleed. I canhear the rasp of their labored breath; the chokinghemoptysis; the lesion wailsthey cry into their pillows whenthey believe no one

Lunacy

2010-06-16T17:00:00.000-07:00

from Sleeping with Nefarious Intent With the eddy motion of autumnal fog -- hushed as last breath around the shanks of men -- the Moon strolls to her apex; planets are her path stones. Her lunette breasts sheathed in the fabric of lithium clouds, keened sheer by the West wind, distract even far flown storm. Her youth is vibrant; Kev blue eyes, promethium skin. Her passage silent; latria songs

Walking through Logan

2010-03-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

Here I move among the happenings,breathing the miasmas of needing,hearing the the wrenching seizures of solitudeand foot fall through the shallowsof winter's watershorded in pot-holes. In the dark looks, under the heavy browsof the shadows limping past, needing,I see their eyes are no longer lucid devices.Headlights and Broadwaysby static amber light and speeding white-bluea boy picks from the

The Furies and Lucidity

2010-03-13T17:00:00.000-08:00

You hear a hundred darker lineseach turn of the sunlightmine are only troubling in an articulate wayThe voice of the callingfrom outside the amber lightinside the edge of shadowsis easy to ignoreHe is mad you sayHis is intoxicated and estrangedHe is not me you sayYou walk on untouchedMy words are ruthless lucidityDark, yes, Shadow, yes... clearnot coal for wrathbut edged for bloodlettingWithin

The Morrigan

2010-03-12T22:11:00.000-08:00

From Ghost Pictures She is the vibration, the note, the chord of night's abject abysses which sundered my eye's light From full lips dropped with red wine dew; Moonlight silver on her wetting tongue... perish Between stones and surrendersunder descending onyx autumnon brittle leaves and moss rockWinter's waters draw from breatha cannonade of thirst. Crow and wolf and cat's eyes will open

The Time that held her Still

2010-03-12T16:31:00.000-08:00

The Time that held her StillThe musk of rotting wallslaced with

Mom not the mother of the child in her womb - Chimerism

2010-03-12T16:10:00.000-08:00

Off the Wikipedia page for Lydia Fairchild. Lydia Fairchild was pregnant with her third child, when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for welfare support in 2002, she was requested to provide DNA evidence that Townsend was the father of her children. While the results showed Townsend was certainly the father of the children, the DNA tests

The soul(s) of the Chimera

2010-03-01T10:36:00.000-08:00

This is perhaps a bit deep for blog posting, but it has been on my mind since starting the novel Winter's Harvest.One of the characters is a Chimera, which I'm sure most of you have figured out from the amount of time I've spent researching the subject. The idea of a chimera is that you have two different embryos, and one has been completely absorbed into the other.Now, if we look at the (very

Can't find a site to write your Term Paper?

2010-03-01T07:53:00.000-08:00

It is very likely that you can't, not after Google was ordered to remove over 500 web sites from their index, because of plagiarism claims, an action based on the DMCA. You can find a copy of the court order on Chilling Effects. Just about all of the web sites are owned by a small group of individuals, which propagated the same information, using a spamming type of SEO stratagey, so I can't say

New Brain, New Day, New You

2010-02-28T09:46:00.000-08:00

New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus. This is the long term memory area, the hard drive for those of us who think better with metaphors. Neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered that the birth of new cells, which depends on brain activity, also depends on a protein that is involved in changing epigenetic marks in the cell's genetic

Cloning and the copying of beings..

2010-02-28T06:26:00.000-08:00

In most fiction (since that is where human clones exist at present), there is always the assumption that a clone is an exact copy. In fact the angst of the young Picard in the movie Nemisis, is that he is a clone a copy of Captian Picard, and therefore not his own person.Going through some of the research on DNA, cells, nueropeptides and epigenetics, I have come across several papers in the

Critical Mass in San Diego

2010-02-27T19:21:00.001-08:00

Regarding the post I made last night about the bicyclist in Downtown, the group is called Critical Mass, which I'm sure I knew, but flaked out on. When I was in San Fransisco I saw them hit the downtown area with a much larger group. It was, brilliant, to put it mildly.Critical Mass is all over the world now. Of course, not everyone thinks they are as cool as I do. Critical Mass is an idea that

The things that change our DNA

2010-02-27T09:14:00.000-08:00

The possible factors that can change the human DNA are being discovered all the time. These changes mostly affect the Germline DNA.Germline cells are immortal, in the sense that they can reproduce indefinitely. This is largely due to the activity of the enzyme known as telomerase. This enzyme extends the telomeres of the chromosome, preventing chromosome fusions and other negative effects of

Alterations in the ID of a DNA Fingerprint

2010-02-27T07:43:00.000-08:00

Of course the panacea of DNA Fingerprinting for criminals, is to be able to alter the existing DNA finger print, either for the duration of the crime, or for the investigation afterward.Just the idea of mucking about with your core DNA areas, sounds like an invitation for primate mutation (and an ape appetite for vegetation), the thought of actually doing it is, well ... fairly creepy. But then,

Bicycle Protesters hit San Diego

2010-02-26T21:32:00.000-08:00

Just after 8:00pm a group of bicycle protesters emerged downtown, numbering well over 500. I wasn't able to count them as they went by, but considering my first estimate was 1000(based on the amount of times the traffic lights cycled as they road through the intersection of 4th and Broadway), I'm betting "over 500" is at the very least, accurate.Three groups of bicycle cops were in the garden

A Introduction look at DNA Finger Printing

2010-02-25T02:35:00.000-08:00

I've posted a few "overview" looks at DNA Finger Printing so far on this blog, this time the link is to an article on JSTOR, An Introduction to DNA Finger PrintingPersonally, getting the same information from different authors helps my writing on the subject. While the information is basically the same, the choice of words, vocabulary and the focus of importance is often different between two

Passing the Buck - Homeless in San Diego

2010-02-24T13:34:00.000-08:00

The Museum of San Diego History, for its NOW! program starting Feb 25th is showing the Passing the Buck: Homeless in San Diego exhibit."Although there is great concern for assisting the homeless, where to house them in San Diego is a political hot button."Time for the show is 6:00pm - 7:30pm Admission is Free, and promises to be an informative look at what is really being done for the homeless in

The Chimera

2010-02-24T02:13:00.000-08:00

In Greek mythology, "chimera," derived from the Greek word for "billy goat," referred to a fire-breathing she-demon that was part lion, part goat, and part dragon or snake. Getting rid of this killer was quite an achievement, and Bellerophon was heaped with praise and riches for his courageous and clever dispatch of the beast. The term "chimera" has come down to us through the ages with 3

The Chimera and the Crime

2010-02-23T02:18:00.000-08:00

There is a fantastic paper on the subject of the Chimera as directly related to Crime Scene investigation.CHIMERAS: DOUBLE THE DNA-DOUBLE THE FUN FORCRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS, PROSECUTORS, ANDDEFENSE ATTORNEYS?(This Link is to a PDF File)One thing she doesn't address, which does come up in the Winter's Harvest novel, is the idea of triplets or ... more... in the make up of the Chimera.Despite

DNA Uses in Crime Investigation

2010-02-23T02:11:00.000-08:00

A report issued by the Justice Department in 2002 indicated that two-thirds of chief prosecutors in the United States rely on DNA testing during investigations and trials. The use of DNA evidence has exonerated at least ten individuals who were wrongly convicted of murder and faced the death penalty, while the sentences of more than 100 others convicted of lesser crimes were overturned based upon

DNA Fingerprinting - An Overview

2010-02-23T01:16:00.000-08:00

For the novel Winter's Harvest I have had to spend quite a bit of time looking into the techniques of DNA fingerprinting. This is a basic overview of how a DNA fingerprint is extracted from evidence at a crime scene, produced by the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Scion, and RPG from White Wolf Publishing

2009-09-12T20:18:00.000-07:00

Looking forward to getting into the Scion RPG Series and learning the Storyteller rule set. I'm working quite a bit on the Scarn.com web site, and expanding the content areas into Scion, and World of Darkness. World of Darkness is coming out probably next year as an MMORPG, so there is quite a bit of work to do on the Scarn.com site between now and then.

Patina, Forgery, Tombs, and Brothers

2009-06-15T17:47:00.000-07:00

Today boys and girls our new word is Patina Patina (pronounced /'pætnə/ or /pə'tinə/) is a film on the surface of bronze or similar metals (produced by oxidation over a long period); a sheen on wooden furniture produced by age, wear, and polishing; or any such acquired change of a surface through age and exposure. On metal, patina is a coating of various chemical compounds such as oxides or

Sharpening the saw at Yale

2009-06-15T16:39:00.000-07:00

There is more to life than what I know, and certainly my powers of observation, while above average, do not bring n all that they could in any situation. Have to sharpen the mind from other sources. The OpenCourseWare that many of the larger colleges in the country are participating in , definitely helps when I want to add something larger to my experience than a blog post or a book.I've been

What is really fun... and perhaps telling

2009-06-14T12:27:00.000-07:00

I took a quick break here to eat some lunch, and jumped on to YouTube (obviously). Instead of my normal delving into the world of Anime madness, I looked up some lectures, book readings and authors who talk about writing Fantasy and Science Fiction. I find it comforting that most “made” writers freely talk about the insanity and force of will involved in novel writing.What I found first, however,

William Gibson - Spook Country

2009-06-14T12:21:00.000-07:00

This guy is very much a hero of mine. When I read his book Neuromancer (years ago), it opened an amazing world of words, and action and story telling which no other writer before (or since ... to be honest) has been close to, and while my style of writing is nothing like his, it is his vision-art which illumed my darkness, birthing shadows... in screams and blood, and night... just like most

Maybe politics is better

2009-06-14T11:11:00.000-07:00

It is amazing to me the weirdness which is instantly brought into any discussion of religion, belief or spirituality. At this moment I'm not talking about anyone who has posted an email to me, or left a comment. What caught my eye, and prompted this post is an Ad in the strip on the side, which suggested that you could learn how to jump into the dimension of God, and go visit him.As far as I know

Thoughts about Asherah – God's Girl Friend

2009-06-10T18:03:00.000-07:00

I found a copy of Time Magazine on the train yesterday coming back into downtown. Normally I don't read such dribble, but it had a tempting article titled Decoding God's Changing Moods, by Robert Wright, who I've never heard of, but that doesn't mean anything.Anyway, the article was fairly interesting, and then about half way through, he brings up the topic of Asherah, using the term Mistress in

So useful its frightening...

2009-06-08T16:32:00.001-07:00

Google Docs and OpenOfficeIt is rather rare that a writer gets a new tool that is more than simply a distraction from doing things he should be doing... like ... writing. However, this one is amazing, and if you work as a writer, or if you are a student, take the time to check this out.I use OpenOffice, instead of hampering tools like Microsoft Word (which cost a fortune and don't do what I want

St. Dismas in the novel Forever Jack

2009-05-30T13:49:00.000-07:00

Saint Dismas is the Good Thief, the man crucified at the right hand of Christ.There is quite a bit of controversy about this saint, certainly more than any other Catholic Saint, or the Eastern Orthodox Saint. For a great many of the years between the crucifixion, and today, Dismas' name has been added to and removed from the list of saints in Rome, depending on how the current Pope felt about the

Sky Descriptions in Forever Jack

2009-05-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

In chapter 18 of Forever Jack, I wanted to use the Egyptian constellations as a way of noting the passing of time. Normally I would have just made it up, but really felt I didn't know enough about the Egyptian constellations and their formations to pull that off, if any reader of the novel was even slightly aware of how they really moved across the sky.To solve this, I used a program called

Lectures on the Book of Genesis

2009-05-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

I was very impressed with the Teaching Company's lectures on the Book of Genesis. These were way beyond expectation and certainly helped with my writing of Forever Jack. Gary Rendsburg gives 24 lectures on the book, and he brought up several points I had not considered, or didn't know about -- which is a treat for me. I don't know how many times I have read Genesis as a complete book, and

Happy Towel Day Douglas -- I still miss you

2009-05-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

FUOLORNIS FIRE DRAGONSFrom the works of Douglas Adams The Fuolornis Fire Dragons were revered throughout the lands of Brequinda in the Foth of Avalars for their savage beauty, their noble ways, and their habit of biting people who didn't revere them.....Why was this? The answer was simple.SEXThere is, for some unfathomed reason, something almost unbearably sexy about having huge fire breathing

Free from Jerusalem

2009-05-25T11:03:00.000-07:00

It isn't that I don't like historic research -- in fact I love it, but I really need to be more careful regarding the subjects/timelines I choose to jump into. Thirty days writing a single chapter is rather frustrating, but I finally got enough information, and insight to get what I wanted into the chapter, and finished it last night. So now I can get back to editing the rest and move forward to

Interesting Jerusalem conflict

2009-05-24T19:06:00.000-07:00

I recently was reading more on first century Jerusalem. Judaea in Hellenistic and Roman times By Shimon ApplebaumRoman law and history in the New Testament By Septimus BussSeptimus Buss makes an interesting statement, that the Talmud says "... the power of capital punishment was away from the ecclesiastical judges [The Sanhedrin] for forty years prior to the fall of the temple. There are two

Timelines and events

2009-05-24T18:39:00.000-07:00

It is amazingly difficult to bring to bear anything solid for accounts happening in Jerusalem in the first fifty years of the first century. For the most part, we are stuck with Biblical accounts, which are vague and rather inaccurate as well. But it is what we have...Upon the death of Herod, his kingdom is divided among his three surviving sons, Philip, Antipas, and Archelaus.These three

Little trouble with Days of the Week

2009-05-22T18:52:00.000-07:00

In the honest hope of someone having an insight on this recent problem I've stepped into, I posted several cries for help in a few groups and forums.It appears there is a small problem with trying to figure out what day of the week Christ was crucified on... awk! The Last Supper is suppose to be the Passover meal.The way the days work in Hebrew tradition is: the day starts at sunset. So, Friday,

The large sucking sound of Messianic Study

2009-05-10T13:31:00.000-07:00

The more I learn, the more I know the Messianic study and idea has little to do with the novel, and yet, I continue to read and learn about the Messiah concept. What a mess that is. Don't go there. It hurts the brain after a while and then, most of the rest of the body as well.I'm basically writing this to remind myself that I'm not studying the messianic stuff any more, I'm finishing up the

Writing about Ancient Days

2009-05-08T18:30:00.000-07:00

The bane of historical sections in fictional novels, is the writer of the fictional novel. Ideas and settings are hard enough to come up with, and when you get a good story line running in your head, the last thing you want is some archeologist coming up with a fact that makes your great idea impossible, or at the very least highly unlikely.For example, I had a great mental image of Dismas

Map of Alexandria I used for the first Forever Jack Novel

2009-05-08T17:26:00.000-07:00

I found this map on Michael Livingston's web site. He did a bit of editing to the version he found. While most of my descriptions are going to be vague, especially concerning places that simply do not exist any longer, in order to write the passages, I need to know what they look like.I guess it is quite a bit like the characters of a fiction novel. You note and create a much larger profile for

An outline map of Ancient Alexandria

2009-05-08T17:17:00.000-07:00

This looks like it was possibly a campaign map of some sort. Not very detailed

Messiah Ideas and View Points in Forever Jack

2009-05-08T15:52:00.000-07:00

I believe at this point, I'm going to drop most of the Apocalyptic and Messiah ideas in this Forever Jack novel, and revisit them in the course of the other two. There is simply too much to really digest, and they weren't part of my original ideas for the novel.In my Google Book List there are a number of book titles that I have put in under the tag of Messianic Study which I'm currently reading

Shadow Dance continues

2008-09-06T10:55:00.001-07:00

The Shadow Dance Novel has been on a rather long sabbatical, however recently I've found the time to re-enter the world of the Scarred Lands and continue the story of Elaine's entry and ascension in the world of Drendari. "Life," her father Edrin Northstar, Prince of the High Elf Tera Vi, tells her, "is ascending beyond your child, and becoming more than yourself."The characters and heroes are

Seriously loving AutoREALM

2008-01-17T20:24:00.001-08:00

I've been working on the Scarred Lands web site, making adventure modules, and I'm not very good at maps. Maps are important for a module however, you really need good ones. AutoRealm seems to be my answer for this lack of talent on my part.The only problem you might have is that it has an Access violation on Windows Vista, but then, what doesn't have an access violation on Windows Vista?