Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.