Over on the Patreon, I’ve been talking about getting back into the Empire of Venom & Silk storyworld, and how the first step is to compile the various blog posts from last year into a single, easy-to-reference document.
Well. The first step of doing that is to put together a list of all those posts… which I’m doing right here:
- Spinning Up a New World – And so it begins!
- A Tone of Spiders – Talking about tone…
- A Setting for Spiders – Setting…
- Heroes (and Villains) of the Occupation – Characters…
- Eight-Legged Conflict – and Conflict
- You Are Here – Oh, it’s a map of the continent!
- Touring the Empire – Part 1 – Top tourist destinations of a spider-infested land!
- Touring the Empire – Part 2 – More points of interest!
- Magic, Mad Sciences, and the Milk of the Earth – Talking about how magic works here.
- Circles, Faces, and Elder Shrines – Creepy features!
- Visions of Venom & Silk – Discussion of imagery, with pictures by Eric Lofgren.
- Meet the Creepers – A list of different kinds of spiders in EVS
- Weave a Web of Magic – A closer look at the spell-casting spiders and the spells they cast
I skipped a couple posts in which I dithered and waffled of what to call the world. And I ignored all the Spider Siege posts, since those are more about game design than world-building, but otherwise, this post should serve as a good index for all things EVS so far.
If you’re a newcomer to Empire of Venom & Silk, I recommend starting at the top link and working your way down. It’s not only a cool fantasy world, but a proof of concept demonstrating how I go about creating storyworlds.
