Quick Question: Anyone know why Wizards isn't doing storylines about random characters of the Ravnica world like they did for the legends of Kamigawa? Those short stories were a nice bonus, as they fleshed out a lot of background for the cards, and in most cases, were really solid writing - I think I like the Kirin's gathering story the most.
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Try Legendology. I'm not sure if they are or not, but thats were magic stories usually are. If not, I'm guessing it was only to expand on Legend's not mentioned in the novels and with a block with so many legends, there just gushing for some spotlight
Wow, I must say that's an ignorant thing to say-- wasted potential for Ravnica because mr.McGough didn't write it. Mr. Herndon did an excellent job writing both Ravnica and Guildpact. The only complaint anyone can logically make is that Rav and GP were barely (or at least very very loosely) connected. It's my belief that they originally intended to focus solely on the guilds in the expansion's, writing 3 stand-a-lone novels. I'd say it was a good idea if it were presented as not a cycle (trilogy), but as single books like The Thran.
I can see WoTC being a little sketchy on the idea after reading up to Guildpact. People are definately gonna want closure to Feathers' storyline, the Schism, Szadek, Jarad and Fonn, etc.
I can see Dissension reverting to connections again. I bet a bunch went on during Guildpact we didn't see and don't know about.
I have Geography question:
Where Madara Empire is placed?
I've read somewhere that on some islands or something, but where are they?
I imagined it as south/south east of Jamuraa--sort of due south from Zerapa and Nakaya/Vintara or southeast from Zhalfir until you hit that big expanse of ocean between the major halves of the supercontinent.
Does that help? If someone could show me a link to a good map of Jamuraa, I'd use that as a referent.
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This has been bugging me forever, maybe you can help, Mr. McGough: I've heard Jamuraa referred to as a supercontinent, and as a subcontinent on that supercontinent. Which one is it, and if it is a subcontinent, what is the name of the supercontinent, or does it even have one?
This has been bugging me forever, maybe you can help, Mr. McGough: I've heard Jamuraa referred to as a supercontinent, and as a subcontinent on that supercontinent. Which one is it, and if it is a subcontinent, what is the name of the supercontinent, or does it even have one?
Okay, I'm going to try to field this one and I'm using the Dominaria 1 map from the Dominaria Map thread (how would one link directle to that image from here?). The Story Team I was on (circa Urza/Invasion/Odyssey) talked about this quite a bit and this is the way we worked it out (keep in mind that the current Story Team always has the final say as to how things are--this is just the model we used at the time).
The landmass from Zhalfir all the way across to the right side of the map (including Nekaya et. al. and the place under the "Jamuraan Blight" label) is the "supercontinent" Jamuraa. You'll note that it's one contiguous landmass that's made up of three continent-sized pieces linked together by ithsmuses (ithsmusi?) and very narrow straights and so forth. The entire thing is considered Jamuraa.
Each of those continent-sized pieces of the supercontinent is a "subcontinent" of Jamuraa. The part that contains Zhalfir and Suq'Ata is one subcontinent; the part with Nekaya and Zerapa is another subcontinent.
We had to choose between making the entire thing Jamuraa or making and naming two new continents. I preferred the idea of one gigantic piece of real estate with a huge diversity of cultures and environments and enormous unexplored stretches--analogous to merging Asia, Africa, and Austrailia into one huge island and letting them work it out.
Anyway, that's what we meant at the time.
Oh, and for the record, I had positioned Madara somewhere south and east of the narrow straits that separate the Zhalfirin subcontinent from the unnamed subcontinent.:cool2:
Hope this helps,
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No offense, of course. I know how hard it is to write a book. Heh. It just felt like there was something missing from the first one.
I'm still buying the Guildpact Fat Pack, so this second one better be better. It better.
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but luckily the soul is wise -
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forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Okee dokes. But then, do the subcontinents have their own names?
Not that I know of. We casually referred to the one as the "Zhalfirin subcontinent" because that was the dominant culture/nation in the region (or at least, the one most central to the current story). The other was the "Kipamu subcontinent" or sometimes the "Vintara subcontinent," but we never nailed down one name for it.
That third one was never defined by name or nation, so I always just called it "the middle one.":D
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No offense, of course. I know how hard it is to write a book. Heh. It just felt like there was something missing from the first one.
I'm still buying the Guildpact Fat Pack, so this second one better be better. It better.
None taken, and thanks for reading. I hope you dig book 2!
Metallic- to answer your question in short, she was engulfed by the darkness of her masters' spell, and died. It's really unfortunate that, i really more or less expected Toshi to go into a fight with OK and Konda and Mochi in a 4 way battle royal, with Toshi eventually dying and being mourned by Hidetsugu, Kiku, and Michiko + Kitsune (especially Sharp Ear, maybe a sharp comment like "you selfish bastard, even in death".
Something catchy like that, but no, Kiku had to go and die
I was wondering if anyone knew what month Dissension was coming out? I know the set got moved up 1 month due to Coldsnap, but i wasn't positive if that meant the same for the novel? I know Mr.Herndon is currently on a deadline, but i'm not sure if it's for Dissension or not?
Anyone know anything? Especially you Mr.Mcgough? (who is also on a deadline for book 1 of the next block i imagine).
To quote the book: "Remember who you are" Toshi called. "Remember who you hate. Cling to the things that mean the most to you, or the shadows will consume you in the end." Kiku's eyes fluttered and she nodded....the mahotsukai herself vanished from sight. Seconds later, the black bubble imploded on itself....
It doesn't seem to me that she was near death by any means.
Sorry, I posted a reply to this question yesterday but I think Internet Explorer ate it. :mad1:
Kiku is by no means dead and I absolutely intended it that way. Toshi's send-off isn't meant to be a mournful, "I'll-miss-you-now-that-you're-dead" goodbye, it's more of a "hang-tough-wish-I-could-do-more-but-you're-on-you're-own" goodbye. At the end of Savior she's overwhelmed by the mahotsukai master's curse and her battle with Hidetsugu, and she is consumed by the shadow power they bestowed upon her. She's not dying, she's being pulled away to another place.
But Kiku is a tough chick, and smart, and determined, and I say there's no way she doesn't tough this out and eventually gain control of the curse. She'll find her back to Kamigawa someday...but who knows what shape she'll be in? That's for WotC and future authors to decide.
I agree that the climax of the trilogy could have been longer, and if I had more time and a higher word count I would have loved to expand it. That said, I am still very happy with what's on the page, even if the pace is a bit on the breathless side.
RE: the end of the book, I'm tempted to make a lame academic joke about an anti-hero requiring an anti-climax (hey, I went to grad school for this stuff, so you know I can sling that hash when I have to ). But keeping Toshi out of the final showdown was a conscious choice on my part--though it's Toshi's story, I wanted to keep him true to his self-interested and sneaky black-mana nature. Throughout the book, Toshi isn't so much the do-er of grand deeds as the agent of or conduit for the true do-er's power. He begs/borrows/steals it for as long as he can and employs it to his own ends. That's essentially what he's doing when he turns Kyodai loose...protecting himself, in the hopes that she'll either flee from or fight against OK...and every second she buys him is another chance to come up with another way out.
I'm not trying to dismiss your opinion of the finale, but I hope we can agree that I just did things with the pacing and the conclusion on purpose that you didn't so much care for...rather than us agreeing that I'm a crappy writer, which is going to be a much harder sell on your end, if I do say so myself :wink2: .
Thanks for the question, and I'm glad you liked the book enough to them questions and to want to discuss it.
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hi I really like to thank you because for me being a latinamerican(spanishspeaker) i really dint like to learn english until i saw the book of chainers torment that is one of my fav books. since that day im reading a lot beater and my english skill are gatting better so for that i whant to thank you and to tell you to keep on the great work you do with those books
hi I really like to thank you because for me being a latinamerican(spanishspeaker) i really dint like to learn english until i saw the book of chainers torment that is one of my fav books. since that day im reading a lot beater and my english skill are gatting better so for that i whant to thank you and to tell you to keep on the great work you do with those books
Wow.
First, let me say "you're welcome." I love it when someone likes the stories I write, but it's a different magnitude of cool when something I wrote actually encourages someone to read...and improve their English overall. Chew on that, JK Rowling!
I won't say I'm humbled (because I'm incredibly big-headed, both literally and figuratively, plus Cory would call me on it right away), but I am immensely flattered and gratified. Thank you for taking the time to tell me this...just wait until my mom sees your post (yeah, I've been out of the house for 20 years and I still like to impress my mom).
I also won't insult you by falling back on my weak high school Spanish, but if you have the time, I'd be interested in how "My name is Skellum and I wear a silly hat" translates into your native language. Just for kicks.
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy some of my other work, as well. You really made my day.
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hi I really like to thank you because for me being a latinamerican(spanishspeaker) i really dint like to learn english until i saw the book of chainers torment that is one of my fav books. since that day im reading a lot beater and my english skill are gatting better so for that i whant to thank you and to tell you to keep on the great work you do with those books
p.s. Does "Castigador" translate into "Punisher" or something similar? (Told you my Spanish was weak). That's pretty sweet. It's right up there with the Italian translation of "reckoner" (from the Kamigawa novels, which are so far in Italian and German)--"Vendettadore."
It's just fun to say out loud. "Vendettadore." I may get that tattoed on me somewhere....:D
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Forgive me if it's already been asked, but why did the black and red dragons not make an appearance in the Kamigawa books?
Mostly because of space limitations and an already-crowded cast of characters and plotlines. As I recall, the dragons weren't fully nailed down card- or art- or name-wise until late in the game as I wrote Champions, so by the time they were ready to be included the story had gone in a direction that didn't include these two dragons.
Specifically, I had planned roles for Keiga and Yosei and a cameo for Jugan, as I saw them as the patron spirit-guardians of important color-specific places (Eiganjo, Minamo, and Jukai). Kokusho and Ryusei didn't make the cut in part because there were already so many important red and black characters (Hidetsugu, Godo, the Yamazakis; Toshi, Kiku, Marrow-Gnawer) and because the Sokenzan mountains and the Takenuma swamps weren't so directly threatened as the plot unfolded.
I realize that's not much of an answer if your favorite card/character got cut, but maybe you can take some consolation in this peek at the creative process?
(crickets)
Hello? Is this thing on? Ahh, nuts. You just can't pleased everybody, I guess.
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First, let me say "you're welcome." I love it when someone likes the stories I write, but it's a different magnitude of cool when something I wrote actually encourages someone to read...and improve their English overall. Chew on that, JK Rowling!
I won't say I'm humbled (because I'm incredibly big-headed, both literally and figuratively, plus Cory would call me on it right away), but I am immensely flattered and gratified. Thank you for taking the time to tell me this...just wait until my mom sees your post (yeah, I've been out of the house for 20 years and I still like to impress my mom).
I also won't insult you by falling back on my weak high school Spanish, but if you have the time, I'd be interested in how "My name is Skellum and I wear a silly hat" translates into your native language. Just for kicks.
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy some of my other work, as well. You really made my day.
well the translation is this:
Mi nombre es Skellum y yo uso un sombrero (raro o estupudio) all depend on the situation.
an this is my msn and email [EMAIL="edrosari@hotmail.com"]edrosari@hotmail.com[/EMAIL] you need any spanish tranlation let me know and is no insult as long as you want to improve your skills and yes castigador mean puninsher
Firstly, thanks a lot for answering my question. Thats definitely the way I interpreted the story, except that I thought Toshi would return to her at the end of the story. Your explanation is perfect though.
Secondly, while I'd love nothing more than to see charatcers like Kiku appear in future blocks as tie-ins (and not only because I love huge story arcs, but because Kiku was a generally great character), I just don't see it happening. Apart from Karn's involvement in Judgement and the whole Mirrodin cycle, I think there have been many opportunities to bring back rich and/or unfulfilled characters; but they have never been re-introduced. I'm not talking specifically about Kiku, but do you know Wizards' policy on the reintroduction of old charcters? And why Karn is the only exception (that I can think of)?
well since the saqy that the umesawa sorry for my spelling once again had a decendent so how says that kiku dint had his son jummmm good q and mybe scott has an anwser or make a sub novel about it lol hope wotc and hasbro let you
Wow...this just gave me a weird, language-geek thought that's going to send me onto a total off-topic tangent:
Frank Castle was born Francis Castiglione. Which I always thought was Italian for "Castle."
Sure is close to Castigador, though. I wonder if the people who created the character knew that?
CJH, who doesn't have a quarter of the Punisher knowledge that McGough has in his pinky.
Wow...this just gave me a weird, language-geek thought that's going to send me onto a total off-topic tangent:
Frank Castle was born Francis Castiglione. Which I always thought was Italian for "Castle."
Sure is close to Castigador, though. I wonder if the people who created the character knew that?
CJH, who doesn't have a quarter of the Punisher knowledge that McGough has in his pinky.
yes this very of topic but if you see punisher the movie the new version his family live in my island lol that funny
Last night my mom (a longtime student of Shinto and Buddhist mysticism) received a small package I sent containing a handful of Kamigawa-block cards. I wanted her to see them and I knew she would appreciate the art, even if she views the Magic game with something between amusement and earnest disapproval.
She loved them, and boy, was I surprised when the first comment she made was not on the handsome artworks, but the flavor text about the kami and Michiko Konda. She's intrigued about the plight of Kamigawa and I'm sending the series of books her way. I can only say that I'm confident she will find them refreshing and dealing skillfully with subject matter that demands a very respectful and conscious approach, especially from Western writers.
Last night my mom (a longtime student of Shinto and Buddhist mysticism) received a small package I sent containing a handful of Kamigawa-block cards. I wanted her to see them and I knew she would appreciate the art, even if she views the Magic game with something between amusement and earnest disapproval.
She loved them, and boy, was I surprised when the first comment she made was not on the handsome artworks, but the flavor text about the kami and Michiko Konda. She's intrigued about the plight of Kamigawa and I'm sending the series of books her way. I can only say that I'm confident she will find them refreshing and dealing skillfully with subject matter that demands a very respectful and conscious approach, especially from Western writers.
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend. Do let me know what your mom thinks of the novels.
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I can see WoTC being a little sketchy on the idea after reading up to Guildpact. People are definately gonna want closure to Feathers' storyline, the Schism, Szadek, Jarad and Fonn, etc.
I can see Dissension reverting to connections again. I bet a bunch went on during Guildpact we didn't see and don't know about.
I imagined it as south/south east of Jamuraa--sort of due south from Zerapa and Nakaya/Vintara or southeast from Zhalfir until you hit that big expanse of ocean between the major halves of the supercontinent.
Does that help? If someone could show me a link to a good map of Jamuraa, I'd use that as a referent.
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Okay, I'm going to try to field this one and I'm using the Dominaria 1 map from the Dominaria Map thread (how would one link directle to that image from here?). The Story Team I was on (circa Urza/Invasion/Odyssey) talked about this quite a bit and this is the way we worked it out (keep in mind that the current Story Team always has the final say as to how things are--this is just the model we used at the time).
The landmass from Zhalfir all the way across to the right side of the map (including Nekaya et. al. and the place under the "Jamuraan Blight" label) is the "supercontinent" Jamuraa. You'll note that it's one contiguous landmass that's made up of three continent-sized pieces linked together by ithsmuses (ithsmusi?) and very narrow straights and so forth. The entire thing is considered Jamuraa.
Each of those continent-sized pieces of the supercontinent is a "subcontinent" of Jamuraa. The part that contains Zhalfir and Suq'Ata is one subcontinent; the part with Nekaya and Zerapa is another subcontinent.
We had to choose between making the entire thing Jamuraa or making and naming two new continents. I preferred the idea of one gigantic piece of real estate with a huge diversity of cultures and environments and enormous unexplored stretches--analogous to merging Asia, Africa, and Austrailia into one huge island and letting them work it out.
Anyway, that's what we meant at the time.
Oh, and for the record, I had positioned Madara somewhere south and east of the narrow straits that separate the Zhalfirin subcontinent from the unnamed subcontinent.:cool2:
Hope this helps,
McG
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No offense, of course. I know how hard it is to write a book. Heh. It just felt like there was something missing from the first one.
I'm still buying the Guildpact Fat Pack, so this second one better be better. It better.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Not that I know of. We casually referred to the one as the "Zhalfirin subcontinent" because that was the dominant culture/nation in the region (or at least, the one most central to the current story). The other was the "Kipamu subcontinent" or sometimes the "Vintara subcontinent," but we never nailed down one name for it.
That third one was never defined by name or nation, so I always just called it "the middle one.":D
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None taken, and thanks for reading. I hope you dig book 2!
CJH
Something catchy like that, but no, Kiku had to go and die
I was wondering if anyone knew what month Dissension was coming out? I know the set got moved up 1 month due to Coldsnap, but i wasn't positive if that meant the same for the novel? I know Mr.Herndon is currently on a deadline, but i'm not sure if it's for Dissension or not?
Anyone know anything? Especially you Mr.Mcgough? (who is also on a deadline for book 1 of the next block i imagine).
Sorry, I posted a reply to this question yesterday but I think Internet Explorer ate it. :mad1:
Kiku is by no means dead and I absolutely intended it that way. Toshi's send-off isn't meant to be a mournful, "I'll-miss-you-now-that-you're-dead" goodbye, it's more of a "hang-tough-wish-I-could-do-more-but-you're-on-you're-own" goodbye. At the end of Savior she's overwhelmed by the mahotsukai master's curse and her battle with Hidetsugu, and she is consumed by the shadow power they bestowed upon her. She's not dying, she's being pulled away to another place.
But Kiku is a tough chick, and smart, and determined, and I say there's no way she doesn't tough this out and eventually gain control of the curse. She'll find her back to Kamigawa someday...but who knows what shape she'll be in? That's for WotC and future authors to decide.
I agree that the climax of the trilogy could have been longer, and if I had more time and a higher word count I would have loved to expand it. That said, I am still very happy with what's on the page, even if the pace is a bit on the breathless side.
RE: the end of the book, I'm tempted to make a lame academic joke about an anti-hero requiring an anti-climax (hey, I went to grad school for this stuff, so you know I can sling that hash when I have to ). But keeping Toshi out of the final showdown was a conscious choice on my part--though it's Toshi's story, I wanted to keep him true to his self-interested and sneaky black-mana nature. Throughout the book, Toshi isn't so much the do-er of grand deeds as the agent of or conduit for the true do-er's power. He begs/borrows/steals it for as long as he can and employs it to his own ends. That's essentially what he's doing when he turns Kyodai loose...protecting himself, in the hopes that she'll either flee from or fight against OK...and every second she buys him is another chance to come up with another way out.
I'm not trying to dismiss your opinion of the finale, but I hope we can agree that I just did things with the pacing and the conclusion on purpose that you didn't so much care for...rather than us agreeing that I'm a crappy writer, which is going to be a much harder sell on your end, if I do say so myself :wink2: .
Thanks for the question, and I'm glad you liked the book enough to them questions and to want to discuss it.
McG
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Wow.
First, let me say "you're welcome." I love it when someone likes the stories I write, but it's a different magnitude of cool when something I wrote actually encourages someone to read...and improve their English overall. Chew on that, JK Rowling!
I won't say I'm humbled (because I'm incredibly big-headed, both literally and figuratively, plus Cory would call me on it right away), but I am immensely flattered and gratified. Thank you for taking the time to tell me this...just wait until my mom sees your post (yeah, I've been out of the house for 20 years and I still like to impress my mom).
I also won't insult you by falling back on my weak high school Spanish, but if you have the time, I'd be interested in how "My name is Skellum and I wear a silly hat" translates into your native language. Just for kicks.
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy some of my other work, as well. You really made my day.
McG
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p.s. Does "Castigador" translate into "Punisher" or something similar? (Told you my Spanish was weak). That's pretty sweet. It's right up there with the Italian translation of "reckoner" (from the Kamigawa novels, which are so far in Italian and German)--"Vendettadore."
It's just fun to say out loud. "Vendettadore." I may get that tattoed on me somewhere....:D
McG
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Mostly because of space limitations and an already-crowded cast of characters and plotlines. As I recall, the dragons weren't fully nailed down card- or art- or name-wise until late in the game as I wrote Champions, so by the time they were ready to be included the story had gone in a direction that didn't include these two dragons.
Specifically, I had planned roles for Keiga and Yosei and a cameo for Jugan, as I saw them as the patron spirit-guardians of important color-specific places (Eiganjo, Minamo, and Jukai). Kokusho and Ryusei didn't make the cut in part because there were already so many important red and black characters (Hidetsugu, Godo, the Yamazakis; Toshi, Kiku, Marrow-Gnawer) and because the Sokenzan mountains and the Takenuma swamps weren't so directly threatened as the plot unfolded.
I realize that's not much of an answer if your favorite card/character got cut, but maybe you can take some consolation in this peek at the creative process?
(crickets)
Hello? Is this thing on? Ahh, nuts. You just can't pleased everybody, I guess.
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well the translation is this:
Mi nombre es Skellum y yo uso un sombrero (raro o estupudio) all depend on the situation.
an this is my msn and email [EMAIL="edrosari@hotmail.com"]edrosari@hotmail.com[/EMAIL] you need any spanish tranlation let me know and is no insult as long as you want to improve your skills and yes castigador mean puninsher
well since the saqy that the umesawa sorry for my spelling once again had a decendent so how says that kiku dint had his son jummmm good q and mybe scott has an anwser or make a sub novel about it lol hope wotc and hasbro let you
Frank Castle was born Francis Castiglione. Which I always thought was Italian for "Castle."
Sure is close to Castigador, though. I wonder if the people who created the character knew that?
CJH, who doesn't have a quarter of the Punisher knowledge that McGough has in his pinky.
yes this very of topic but if you see punisher the movie the new version his family live in my island lol that funny
Last night my mom (a longtime student of Shinto and Buddhist mysticism) received a small package I sent containing a handful of Kamigawa-block cards. I wanted her to see them and I knew she would appreciate the art, even if she views the Magic game with something between amusement and earnest disapproval.
She loved them, and boy, was I surprised when the first comment she made was not on the handsome artworks, but the flavor text about the kami and Michiko Konda. She's intrigued about the plight of Kamigawa and I'm sending the series of books her way. I can only say that I'm confident she will find them refreshing and dealing skillfully with subject matter that demands a very respectful and conscious approach, especially from Western writers.
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend. Do let me know what your mom thinks of the novels.
McG
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Q: i was thinking would it be posible that you can make a character like a spanish guy like a conquistador or something lol
and mi nombre es skellum y tengo un sombrero gracioso