Introducing Forged Lord Comics
Some twenty years ago, I was approached at a comic convention by a skinny teenager with black-rimmed glasses. He said “I’m Luke Crane! I love the Iron Empires! I want to do a role playing game based on your comics!” I don’t remember what I said. I hope I was polite and encouraging. I know I shared his enthusiasm [...]
Continue ReadingI AM COUNT UDULOR
The singers of songs will remember me. I am Most Devout Count Sekaman Comor Udulor, Forged Lord of Valabham, Lion of Lasyé, Blessed of Ahmilahk. My father, cherish his memory, was a great and noble lord, but he was obsessed with the details of governance. Diplomacy, finance, law and policy are necessary to good governance, but are [...]
Continue ReadingThis is the way the world ends.
THIS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS – NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER We are the lesser sons of greater fathers. There was a time, ten thousand years ago, when explorers leapt from world to world like wildfire. There was a great age of discovery, when our scientists wrested secret after secret from the cosmos. There were telepaths to look inside [...]
Continue ReadingHow the Interstellar Medium Affects Distortion Technology
In the Iron Empires, space travel is accomplished by way of the Distortion Drive. This technology functions optimally in a vacuum, being extremely sensitive to even the smallest amount of matter in the drive’s active envelope. Thus the “terrain” of space is of crucial importance to any Hammer Lord. The Interstellar Medium [...]
Continue ReadingHis Infinite Strip
When I was a teenager, growing up in Syracuse NY, I used to spend all of my available money on art books. Not just any art books, not the educational books my parents bought me about “fine” artists, all safely carrying society’s seal of approval. These were books with titles like “The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo”. Books crammed [...]
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