#Mistland

[beyondmistland]

Turned 30 earlier this month so figured now would be a good time to formally announce my next book.

Tentative release date: Winter 2025

More details coming soon!

:)

[serenelunatic]

If you ever wanted to know which Mistland territory is the biggest, this post is for you

[smashpages]

Mistland is a five-issue adventure series that follows the suspects of a murder who are exiled in the frozen vastness of a place called the Mistland, created by Rafael Scavone and Rafael Albuquerque, written by Felipe Castilho with art by Felipe Watanabe, colors by Natalia Marques, letters by Deyvison Manes, and covers by Rafael Albuquerque.

Coming from Stout Club and Comixology in 2024. Read more

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: Mistland #5

Mistland #5 preview. As the truth about The Hollow and the Mistland unfurls, long-lost powers and memories resurface, and the fate of the three clans will be ultimately defined #comics #comicbooks

[alivesoul]

[beneathathousandskies]

Book Review: Eleventh Cycle (Mistland #1) - Kian N. Ardalan

Hello! Today I am sharing my review for Eleventh Cycle by Kian Ardalan, the first book in the Mistland series. This was a book that I really wanted to love, but as you will see from the length (and I apologise…I think this is my longest review to date) that didn’t happen. There is so much potential in this book, and it has some of the most spectacular worldbuilding, but it turned out not to be…

[lo-batteryy]

Something something vintage fantasy color pallet is perfect in the misltands

[serxeri]

Introducing a Jason Todd in an AU called Jay in Mistland. This has been living in my brain rent free for about a year now.

Essentially using the ideas of Lazarus Pit (from DCU) being excess ectoplasm (Danny Phantom) plus portals/rifts opening at random even briefly... which leads to....

What if: when Talia put Jason Todd into a Lazarus Pit which coincidentally a rift opened only enough for Jason to disappear from the pit... and he gets isekai'd to a different world, which is Mistland (Dragon Nest). Then he got adopted by a mercenary, kind of in a funny way-.

Basically like this.

Dialogue

Kanna: Welp, he's our responsibility now.

Yo: No, he's Ru's.

Ruarc: Why?!

Yo: You found him.

Later...

Ru: If anyone asks, you're my kid.

Yo (Miryo) is a character of @/broskiibean on twitter/x

I'll be tagging this au as Jay in Mistland AU. (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠) for I have more-

[crabdinners]

God Valheim is pretty

[kmlaney]

WIP questionnaire

tagged by @coffeewritesfiction and I am so sorry to take this long on a reply. Thanks for the tag!

Tagging @fallenscintilla (if you want! No pressure!) and @waywardwizzard and anyone who wants to!

1. What is the first part of your WIP that you created?

The very first line was: “D’ya think I care how it tastes?” I posted an edited version here. There's a snip of the original here.

For the record, it started as a character background for a TTRPG. In fact, it wasn’t even going to be the character I was going to play. Harrowed (undead/revenant) gunfighter? *eyeroll* Too cliché. I even made a homebrew archetype to play: a “spiritualist” in the late 1800’s sense. But that first line kept bugging me so I figured, okay. Fine. I’ll write this one scene and then work on my spiritualist. 

Yeah. No. I never played the spiritualist.

2. If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

I did all the fan stuff for Phil and Skyfallen, like playlists, faceclaims, all of that. I never did that before. I selected music for the theoretical TV show: main theme, a rotating list of outro/credits roll music, pieces for certain kinds of scenes. So if Skyfallen were a TV series, this would be the theme:

3. What are your favorite characters that you made? Why?

That’s like asking which of my pets was my favorite. I love them all. I guess I loved Phil enough to make them the viewpoint character. They’re a more-mature version of the kind of character I wrote when I was a kid, now with serious problems I can explore as an adult. I like Phil’s father, whom I was determined to fridge in the beginning because fridging is usually a female character. Ha Ha! Then I went and gave him a character arc that could only end in his death so he’s not fridged after all. 

I like Travelling Sam for being a conniving, money-grubbing jerk, but he’s fun to write. I like Eva as Carnival Mom; Maury for being a flamboyant, fun-to-be-around person hiding a serious drinking problem that everyone knows about. I like Doc Butcher for his name, for actually being trained as a vet but caring about everyone, and trying to do his best when he’s in over his head because he can’t do nothing. 

I like Maker Lewis for his change of heart, though he was already on the fence and just needed a shove. And I like Miss Warren for being a nosy reporter whom Phil doesn’t want to like but ends up liking anyway. She also lets me play at muckraking reporter. Choosing words to specifically slant a piece is a load of fun.

4. What other pieces of media do you think your fan base would share?

Skyfallen has its roots in Westerns, so people who like cinematic westerns are a potential fanbase. I include horror, steampunk, and gothic elements, so if your venn diagram of interests includes those things then it might be for you. 

Things I like that influenced or feel like this story: Silverado, The Magnificent Seven, RIPD 2 Rise of the Damned (movies. I hate to admit that last one but it was fun). Deadlands (TTRPG game. I created Phil for this setting). The Dark Tower novels--primarily Wizard and Glass but any of the parts dealing with Roland’s world. 

There is zero romance. Phil’s ace, there is no main love interest, and anyone who gets together does so very off-screen. 

5. What has been your biggest struggle with your WIP?

When writing the draft, the individual scenes flew out of my brain. I could hardly write them fast enough. In deep editing, though, it’s the big-picture stuff I find challenging. Which themes do I want to emphasize and which are less important? Do I really need all this buildup or should I start later? I need to show certain things so the later ones make sense, but that makes it even longer. It’s already very long; shouldn’t I be cutting things down? Argh. It's frustrating.

6. Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

There are animals. Most are utilitarian: Horses, dogs, cats, chickens, cows. There are monsters also (for certain values of “monster”) all along the continuum from “non-sapient animal” through to “self-aware human intelligence.” 

The way they figure into the story is more interesting. In life, Phil liked animals in general and had a special fondness for horses and mules. After dying and coming back reanimated, animals can’t stand to be around them. Phil doesn’t figure it out right away, and it hurts when they do.

7. How do your characters get around? (Ex. Trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

For the area the characters are in for the bulk of the story, most people walk, ride horses, or ride in wagons, carts, or coaches pulled by horses or teams of horses. There are a couple of trains but they are rare. In other areas, trains are common, as are ferries and lake boats. Airships exist; they are novelties and considered simultaneously luxurious and dangerous. In larger cities, along with the horse-drawn vehicles, people have bicycles, rickshaws, pedal-powered rickshaws, and palanquins. Automatons in a variety of configurations may be subbed in for horses or people in any of those conveyances. 

8. What part of your WIP are you working on right now?

I’ve identified some specific foreshadowing that needs to happen. So I need to add that in. There are a few names that aren’t consistent; they’re flagged so I can fix them. I need to put in a few encounters so later ones make sense. It’s not exactly foreshadowing so much as worldbuilding. So editing stuff.

9. What aspects (tropes, maybe) of your WIP do you think will draw people in?

I have a hard time identifying tropes in my work, probably because I’m in the trees, so to speak, and can’t see the forest. Or groves, to push the metaphor. Having said that, here’s an attempt:

Portal/isekai

Found family

Unlikely group of heroes

Humans can be evil; monsters can be sympathetic

Religion, Magic, and cults 

Monsters dwelling among humans

Enemies to not-friends (don’t push your luck)

Things get worse

Everyone has secrets

Lost memories, memory tampering

Weird West

Steampunk and Gothic Horror

Gunslinger/trick shot

Noble Demon/antihero

Good is not nice

I did come up with one of those taglines that you might see on the bottom of the cover of a book: 

“Every Skyfallen has something they want to forget. And everyone in the Mistlands is Skyfallen.”

10. What are your hopes for your WIP?

Originally I was hoping for traditional publishing. I might still try to go that way. I’m also looking into self-pub, and websites that host serial stories. I think this story fits better into a serial format than a traditional book format. I need to make it more coherent (hence editing phase)

[beyondmistland]

One of my co-authors, @cynicalclassicist, commissioned this art of Mistland's twin princesses for my 30th birthday! :)

Nova Grey-Nunn (left) and Ultima Grey-Nunn (right) by Dracona_Arts

Feel free to like or reblog but please do not repost! All rights reserved.

[dailynie-nie]

My treehouse complex in the server. I live as the only swamp settler.

[serenelunatic]

I'm studying political parties in french class at uni rn and the discussion somehow gave us this

The anti goddess faction is far left now lmao

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: Mistland #3

Mistland #3 preview. The true nature of the Mistland starts to unveil itself. A beast is tracking down the exiled, and an ancient horror lies under the ice #comics #comicbooks

[czerwonywilk]

Recently I started working on a base on border of mistlands and ashlands' boiling oceans, I found a perfect formation to build some kind of tower or small buildings attached to this rock

I made some wooden stairs to go up and down, but have trouble deciding on which material to use for building (stone or black marble)

[quilldesignz]

So my friends finally convinced me to wander into the Mistlands...