In Seldith stood seven estates.
There were many houses, of course, some of them large enough to be considered manors, many buildings and homes and a great number of farms and plantations – but there were seven Estates.
From East to West, the first was the home of the Leader and thus whoever lived there had the First Vote, which was most powerful. The second home was for the Head of Priests, who held the second vote. Continue reading
I discovered probably a year ago that drawing maps, when there’s no stress and no requirement, is a very soothing activity for me. I have some doodled maps that chart spaces that don’t yet exist in fiction and may never see paper, but they were still very fun to make. I even plotted a journey of an unknown adventuring crew over one map!
(This may also be why I have more unfinished maps than finished ones…)
Yesterday, I discovered, or rather, perhaps, solidified, that folding-paper things also does this for me.
This is interesting, because I am a) not great at following diagrammed instructions (for a fox I made to stick in a piece of mail, T. figured it out from the directions and then showed me), and b) not great at precision at all. Like, even the amount required to cut a perfect square is really pushing it for me.
But it’s fun.
I’ve been making scrap-paper envelopes, which are sort of barely folding-paper stuff, so I bought 3 calendars for 30 cents each at the Dollar General to play with.
And for Christmas, my friends got me The Art of the Fold, by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol ( https://www.artofthefold.com/ ), so I’ve started working through these.
This led to me making a teeny accordion book (an inch and a half by just under three inches finished size) from one calendar page and putting little 1/3 index cards into each of the pockets, on which I wrote a rather short letter. Since, you know, I’m still writing back replies from Month of letters. 😀
What will come next? Stay tuned to find out!