Hello. C J here. I’ve just updated the Regency page with some new information. I’m working on designing cards for it full time now but as with most jobs I do the buildings, furniture and landscapes need to be done in Minecraft first to make sure they work. What does a Nexus look like? What clothing goes well with an Ascalan alleyway? Does Ascalan magic need to go well with their wallpaper? Well, Minecraft can answer these questions.
These cards and the spells they contain are all based on real life magic. Regency is entirely real stuff that I’m drawing to keep the ideas in circulation. No one really practices Medieval Alchemy anymore, for example. I can draw Medieval Alchemy concepts. I feel I should to keep the science alive.
I’m currently working out a puzzle. I want the art on the gems you use to pay for spells to correlate to the text on the spell. If a spell requires one coin, a shot of rum and a prayer then I want there to be gems that depict a coin, a shot of rum and that exact prayer. This spell is obviously paid for in more than one colour of gem.
But what about mages? Mages exist in the setting and can use all gems of any colour. What do their spells look like on the inside? Gems dictate what resources and materials a spell costs. Some spells in real life don’t list a cost. The Law of Attraction is like this. They’re entirely internal but have effects externally. If that isn’t the most literal definition of magic I’ve ever heard then I don’t know what is. I’ll work on this.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. I've got four new recipes for everyone here. We have everything from Chinese chicken to homemade hot apple cider. Enjoy. The Emperor’s Potatoes Here we have the first food item I ever finished designing for Food of the World – Carthia. I tried three combinations of traditional Asian ingredients and pasta under the assumption that I was doing Italian-Chinese food for the book. I could not for the life of me get any of them to be exciting. They were fine. I don’t eat fine. I got bored of the pasta thing and then thought to myself, ‘what happens if I swap the pasta for another starch? What about a potato?’ It worked. Really well. It worked so well I named them The Emperor’s Potatoes. They’re mashed potatoes and I left the skins on because I like vitamins and then that got me thinking about the traditional medicinal food of Ancient China, ginger. Could I put ginger in a potato dish and have it work? Yes. I can. That surprised me. Be warned, these are almost dangerousl...
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