Current mood:	hopeful
Current music:	Minkus - La Bayadere (Yes, still)

Romantic Age Wraith needs a better title ;-)

Romantic Age Wraith This is my other big project at the moment. I seem to have volunteered myself to write a Romantic Age setting for Wraith: the Oblivion. It should be a whole lot of fun, but I have absolutely no idea where to start. I guess the best thing to do would be to go out with a notebook and pen tomorrow, sit down and make a whole load of notes and rough ideas. The basic ideas behind it at the moment are as follows: * The French Revolution - The old order was being overthrown. People's way of life was breaking down. People thought it was the end of the world. * Mount Tambora - In 1816, Mount Tambora errupted and summer never came. For those who believed that Judgement Day was just around the corner, this only confirmed their suspicions. * A Brave New World - In the Romantic era, America had just achieved Independance. The world was still a very big place, filled with hundreds of diverse cultures and peoples. * The Great Poets - This was the rise of great writers such as Shelley, Keats, Byron, Coleridge and Wordsworth, they challenged the old ways of things and completely revoloutioised the way people wrote and read poetry. * The Rise of Science - Just as this was an age of great art and dreams, so science was slowly beginning to overtake alchemy. The secrets of the world were beginning to be explained. It was one final flare of awe in the face of the unknown before the human mind began to explain everything away. I'm sure there are lots of other things I'd like to confront. If nothing else then all that is to do with the Skinlands, I still need to figure out what was going on in the lands of the Dead at that time, and the books I've checked so far have virtually nothing for the period, so it looks as if I'm going to have free reign. But that also means that there's going to be an awful lot of work to do.