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    Entry #6 The Serpent Sea 2023-09-16
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Dear unknown person, I don't want to use this gopher den to 
dump files and forget them. I don't know if you'd call that a 
file dump. I know that the usual thing is to turn your web 
space into a self-praising ad, so I'll try and find a nice 
middle point, where I just share what I'm working on.

Firsty things first, I'm not that good at writing in English.
If I've written this thing in a language other than my own is
because of people I've met, friends you may call them, and they
happen to read English. So don't expect perfection. I have to
work slowly, reaching out for the meaning of this and that word
and if it makes sense in the context, and all that. It's time
consuming and even irritating, for it breaks the flow of writing
but it does the job for my humble needs. With all those disclaimers
out of the way,

Allow me to introduce you to my fiction works on my gopher. As
they stand out today, they are three: "Koy's diary", "Evil like
us" and "Heart of Valor", all set in the "Serpent Sea" middle 
fantasy world.
 
So, what's this "Serpent Sea"? Imagine a planet mostly as ours, 
change the geography, add orcs, goblins and some hidden creatures,
toss a pinch of hidden, subtle magic here and there. That's the
main thing; then suppose there used to be a human empire, that
fell down and the orcs somehow destroyed, long ago. But there's
an area of the world, the Serpent Sea, where humans turned the
tide, and built a new civilization, one based on freely associated
city states, independent but sharing many laws and regulations,
and... there's the s-word, meaning slavery. Not in the Gorean
sense or in the American one, more like in the Ancient Roman one,
done for the usual reasons of greed and everybody else is doing
it. So that's the core of the setting.

I think I should stop here, not to make this post into a wiki;
there's not too much yet at this point, but you'd probably enjoy
the map, I hope. You could even use it for your own ttrpg games.
Anyway, they are on /fiction/serpent_sea, as it should be 
obvious from the main gopher map of this hole.

Oh, and about "Middle Fantasy"? I shall tell you.