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A Bit of Fun: Character Doormats

This concept started way back in 2008. I saw a doormat on I Can Has Cheezburger? with the word “Leave” on it, and thought it fit Heruvael (Hileko’s father) perfectly. So I ran with that inspiration and made a small animated gif with a few character doormats. When it came back to mind recently, I could not resist the opportunity to add additional doormats.

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June 21, 2026 Filed Under: Illustration, Worldbuilding Tagged With: Avarii, End of Days, Geren’s Passage, humor, Hyarmi

Guide to Hyarmi Coat Colors

Just like many people have an image spring to mind when they read or hear the phrase palomino horse, many humans in Huavaen understood what a brown and tan hyarmi would look like. The guide below was made to assist people not born there with understanding how the various hyarmi coat colors appear.

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August 25, 2025 Filed Under: Illustration, Worldbuilding Tagged With: Geren’s Passage, Hyarmi

Guide to Measurements

Length


Both humans and hyarmi use the same system of length measurement.

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May 24, 2025 Filed Under: Worldbuilding Tagged With: End of Days, Geren’s Passage

Illustration: Reunited

My illustration ideas usually sit in line for years, until it’s the correct season, other higher-priority projects are completed, and I have the computer and 3D model resources to tackle it.

And then comes a situation like this! Since the moment I met Spilled Ink and Sungleam Under Storm in writing End of Days, I’ve been itching to do a picture of them together.

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March 20, 2025 Filed Under: Illustration, Worldbuilding Tagged With: Avarii, End of Days

Character Guide – Geren’s Passage

Pronunciations shown below are provided using the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols.

Hyarmi name pronunciations are given with humanized equivalents for sounds in the hyarmi language that cannot easily be produced by humans.

For those interested in hearing a pronunciation, copy the IPA notation into this IPA reader and select one of the American voices, such as Joanna or Joey. My grateful thanks to the maker of that resource!

To learn about nations, races, and other terms, please visit the glossary page.

All mage rankings are given in the Dominion/Glashowal system, not Bivordian ranking or an older ranking system.

This list contains characters from the first two Geren novels.

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November 4, 2024 Filed Under: Worldbuilding Tagged With: Geren’s Passage

Maps

Yes, finally. Maps!

I am creating Geren’s travel maps in a simple diary style to keep them as readable as possible in print or on an e-reader screen. For additional maps, it’s full-color fun.

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September 30, 2024 Filed Under: Worldbuilding Tagged With: End of Days, Geren’s Passage

Illustration: One Shining Day

Thanks to horrid quantities of overtime, my second summer illustration project for 2023 wound up stretching out from June to September.

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September 12, 2023 Filed Under: Illustration, Worldbuilding Tagged With: Avarii

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