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Announcing Aubade

 Hello. C J here. I just released the first drafts of four of the planned eleven Compass books. Compass is a series of books that aims to show the rest of the setting Creation away from the Astral. Creation has at present twelve planned settled regions that do not share a common history or origin except for sharing the same list of gods. The Astral is only one of these regions.

The next up to be detailed is Aubade. Aubade, the word, means a song sung at dawn. I like the word. Aubade the setting is still under development but it serves an important role in the setting Creation as a whole. All of the other eleven Creation settings have a core theme that they run on, often a genre. Champion is epic or biblical era fantasy. Nebula is dark science fiction. Eternity is steampunk fantasy. Hunter is post apocalyptic science fiction. Astral is colonial era fantasy based on real life cultures.

There are more genres planned but these are the ones released so far. Aubade is composed of everything I have left over that isn’t sorted into one of these genres. The genre for Aubade is kind of undefined as its goal is to ensure that none of my ideas or source material go to waste. I’ve typed some of Aubade today. It’s going well but it did a thing that I wasn’t expecting.

Somehow, despite all the concepts and nations in it having no common origin, Aubade is turning into the setting’s generic fantasy region. Aubade is now the normal one. That surprised me. I wasn’t planning generic fantasy for the setting as a whole since it’s been done well before by other companies and brands. I didn’t want to compete with them. It turns out I will be entering into that market as well. I’ll post a draft of the book once I have at least one chapter done of it.

C J Mcpherson

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