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Old Poems 5 - EmoAlone
I want to be alone
I don't want to be alone
with the monster in my chest.

A sound downstairs
they're talking again
it hates the sound of people talking
the monster roars.

There are words
I can't hold them in anymore
overflowing, like water left in the freezer
the bottle cracks
the monster squirms anxiously
it wants out.

everything is blurry
I hate the feeling of crying

sitting on the bed
the monster starts pacing again
aching for freedom or blood, I don't know.

like a lion at the zoo
behind the iron bars of my timidness
isn't there a way to let it out?

on the floor of my messy room
among books and papers
salvatio

Old Poems 4 - Who? Who knows.I wake.
The sun dies
in a sky
stained with blood.
The blood of
my prey.
I am emperor.
A fearsome king.
From my throne -
the blackened heavens -
I watch
my silent kingdom.
Sleep, my subjects,
or find
that death flies
on white wings.

Old Poems 3 - can't fit a titl1
Time passes slowly
among the whitened pines.
There is a quiet beauty in
winter's stillness.
In such a place, darkness has no meaning.

2
A pine tree that has lost its green
is a sad thing indeed;
especially against the
whitened ground of winter.
But time makes quiet all things.

Old Poems 2 - Good Poem?A fog falls across the empty world
whitening the night.
In the naked trees
black crows loom like
patches of an empty sky
that isn't there.
Between them blooms a single
sunflower
like a drop of yellow paint
on the grey eternity.

Old Poems 1 - Bad PoemO my lovely love,
Your eyes are like the stars above,
Your hair is like the sun at noon,
Your skin is pale as the moon,
And I would follow where you go,
If you would only love me so.

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Map of Shalyeunby ~StarRaven

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200 years ago, in this land of Shalyeun, a star fell to earth, and the world began to change.

Even now, 200 years later, pieces of this "star" continue to be found all over Shalyeun. They are jewel-like shards, valuable not only for their beauty, but for the fact that they hold within them magic, ranging from mundane to powerful.

There is, however, a flaw in their power - they corrupt and kill the natural magic of Shalyeun, making it impossible for those who use the shards.

The Jenaviir believe the star shards are a gift from the gods, and use them to power magical weapons to protect the people from the beasts that have been corrupted by the star's power.

The Aldynni, on the other hand, believe that the shards are a curse, and seek out the fragments to destroy them before the magic of Shalyeun is beyond repair.

As these wars rage, something has begun to stir in the darkness beyond our world. It wants the star shards, and to get them, it will purge mankind from existence.

love 2 2

joy 1 1

wow 2 2

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~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

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~StarRaven Aug 6, 2009

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~duo7700 Jul 22, 2009 Professional Writer

Fantastic...er!
I still can't get over those mountains... and I just noticed that thar be monsters in them thar waters!

~StarRaven Jul 23, 2009

Thanks.

I've gotten lots of compliments on my mountains... maybe I'll do a tutorial. They're a little time-consuming, but they're really quite easy.

I just put that monster in.

~KungFuAmadeus Aug 6, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yes! Tutorial please! Those mountains rock out loud.

~KungFuAmadeus Jul 15, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

For a little more fantasy-appropriate solution for your marshes (i.e. a hand-drawn look), you could modify that cartography marsh symbol by removing the vertical "reed" marks, and only featuring the 2-3 horizontal dashes for your map. I've seen that done on a few maps before, but I wouldn't know where to point you. Just run a search of fantasy novels, and check out their maps maybe? Certainly at least one of them has a marsh.

~StarRaven Jul 19, 2009

*slaps forehead* DUH. "Fantasy" the one word I haven't included in my Google image searches. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In my weeks of searching, I think that's the best advice so far. Haha!

*Asherok Jul 15, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

and i love the mountains you did there XD there so pretty

~StarRaven Jul 19, 2009

Thanks!! I'm quite proud of them, actually. They're kind of a pain in the butt to draw out by hand (just because there's so many of them....) I tried to come up with a custom brush (or a set of custom brushes) that would work for them, but I haven't managed anything yet.

*Asherok Jul 20, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

o.o u did all that by hand.... u are a god. teach my oh great master.

lol

~StarRaven Jul 21, 2009

It's not nearly as hard as it looks, hehe. Let me see....

[link] Here's a great tutorial for Gimp, even though it's not the style I used on this map....

I've learned a lot from the Cartographers' Guild, even though I have managed to come up with some things (like those mountains) on my own. Maybe I'll make a tutorial. Tutorials are hard.... D:

It's pretty easy. I just scribbled in where I wanted them to go on a mostly-transparent layer, and then drew them in one at a time on a new layer from the bottom up....

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