I see alot of custom dolls on youtube. Has anyone done a custom doll of any of the Tayledras?

Looking for a list of musical instruments found in Valdemar. Thanks!

I'm in Chapter 11 of VALDEMAR (3rd book in the Founding story) and I wanted to mention something.

We get facts wrong as far as recalling details from book to book, but, we are old. And tired. And overworked. It happens.

But it has to be said, our seeming discrepancy between older-period stories and current-time details is often intentional. The knowledge later-period characters may have about what Was Before has usually been corrupted by time. History kinda works that way. Alas.

Imagine the anguished cries of history buffs at TV screens, over details that would have been important to the period, but are just plain wrong. Historians aren't (usually) trying to be brats when they savage media misrepresentations, they're trying to keep the drift to a minimum, and that gets frustrating.

But, that drift is a part of who we are as people. We shaved apes like to modify things. Deeply troubled people wind up as fearless, perfect heroes once the stories have aged a bunch (looking at you, Skan). Ancient rulers like Kordas are revered as flawless, infinitely-wise paragons a millenium later. Amazing people get written out of the history books, and factual accounts often just plain get lost.

Misty and I typically show character PoV at the time of an event as an eyewitness account, as an accurate view of what is perceived by that character---but it's part of PoV discipline that senses don't tell the truth, they tell the perception. We love our characters, but wow, do they get duped, operate on bad information, misremember, and get things outright wrong. Again, that's simply part of being a fallible meatsack. We're all like that. Sometimes, we're our own Unreliable Witnesses.

History as we understand it---lacking Shin'a'in memory imprint tapestries as we are--- is amorphous, and events are modified to suit whoever's telling the story--often, just to make a better story of it.

When dealing with anything over a few decades' time, we try to represent the decay of facts, reassignments of importance, and the evolution of language (such as Gesten's legendary thoughtfulness winding up in modern era Velgarth as the word "gesten," which means "Thank you."),

Shout out to historians and librarians. You fight the good fight.

Now, back to Prince Restil....

Mercedes sneaks in references to popular culture more and more lately. It was particularly obvious in Beyond, when Mage Jonathon was showing around cat pictures from imagur (imgur online), and when the Doll told Kordas "We can remember it for you." and he asks "Wholesale?" (A reference to a Philip Dick sf story, which became the film Total Recall.)

I just saw a pop culture reference in Gryphon in Light, but my goldfish brain has already forgotten. The point of this post is - do you think we should add a pop culture references article?

Just a quick question-is/will there be a mass market paperback version of Beyond coming out?

The death of Daren's father on this page is in accord with the event described in By The Sword. The shock of his son trying to kill the Queen of Valdemar being a probable cause of his death.

but...

In Exile's Honor the story is a bit different. Daren's father dies and Daren is called home while his middle brother is not. Queen Seleny and he were having marital troubles which her husband played on in order to wheedle his way back into the Queen's good graces before he attempts to assassinate her.