Category: World Building

Ellendrí Chronicles Backgrounder Part I

This entry is part 2 of 14 in the series World Building. First in a series of graphic novel posts describing the background universe for my upcoming novels.

So … I’ve been doing lots of world building for my first novel. After getting it three-quarters written, I started having many questions that needed consistent answers, thus the exercise in creating a detailed background supported by a significant amount of research. Here’s my first installment of background information … written from Eldranth’s point of view.

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Map of the Ll’Ellendrÿn

This entry is part 3 of 14 in the series World Building.

Here is the star map for the Ll’Ellendrÿn region in a bit more detail.  This is a flattened, and somewhat figurative diagram, something like the old, artistic world maps for Earth (I didn’t put “Here there be dragons”, but that’s kind of the gist of things).

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Ellendrí Chronicles Backgrounder Part II

This entry is part 4 of 14 in the series World Building. Second in a series of graphic novel posts describing the background universe for my upcoming novels.

Here’s my second installment of background information … written from Eldranth’s point of view.  For those who missed the first graphic novel, please go back to this post.

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Ellendrí Chronicles Backgrounder Part III

This entry is part 5 of 14 in the series World Building. Third in a series of graphic novel posts describing the background universe for my upcoming novels.

Here’s my third installment of background information … written from Eldranth’s point of view.

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Ellendrïa—The Making of a Planet

This entry is part 7 of 14 in the series World Building.

Designing a solar system for Hauldrÿn (officially HIP 18433) was one of the first world building tasks that I set for myself.  Hauldrÿn is the home sun for a number of the major characters in my novel, and having a good working knowledge of this system will assist in many of my descriptive scenes.

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Ellendrí Chronicles Backgrounder Part IV

This entry is part 8 of 14 in the series World Building. Fourth in a series of graphic novel posts describing the background universe for my upcoming novels.

Here’s my fourth, and final, installment of background information on Hauldryn’s solar system … written from Eldranth’s point of view.

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