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 read a lot of cookbooks. This is done mostly for fun. I’m currently reading a short but really interesting book about traditional Chinese cooking. The book was written by an Indian author who has clearly researched Chinese food very well but some of the translations of recipes or concepts get a bit strange. I’m currently done the soups and starters section and am onto the section labelled ‘food that is saucy.’ Cool? Is it also savvy? There’s a surprisingly large amount of ketchup in the recipes. No I don’t think I want a recipe for hot and sour soup that is thickened ketchup water with vinegar and a bit of cabbage. No I also don’t want to take a slice of white wonderbread, roll it into a tube, stuff it with canned corn, deep fry it and then top it with sesame seeds. What in God’s name do they eat in China? And why is it specifically an image of white wonderbread? China? Are you okay? I managed to take out the vinegar, water and corn starch that makes up most of the h...
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