Alagai Hora
Woke up this morning feeling crappy. Not sure if it’s just allergies/exhaustion or a cold coming on, but of course it happens right before I head down to Baltimore for 5 days to attend Balticon.
So I was grumpy, until two awesome things happened. First, my iPad arrived, just in time for the trip, despite the fact that it was not due till Saturday (too late to bring it):
And second, I received an e-mail entry for the Warding Contest from French Jess reminding me why I <3 her.
Hi Peat,
Hope you are well! I’ve seen that you are very busy this days! That’s great!
First I wanted to thank you and Dani for the bookplate! I stuck it in my Desert Spear and it’s just so beautiful! It made my boyfriend jealous!
I’m actually devouring the Desert Spear! I had no time to read in my trip to Corsica, always hiking (under the rain…), so I had to delay the beginning of my reading when I came back home! I’m almost at the end of the first part and GOD it’s good to be back in your world!!! I LOVE it so much! I’ll tell you what I think of the entire book as soon as I finish it 🙂
But I write for another reason! As soon as I saw on your website that another contest had began, I told myself “I HAVE to do something for this one as well”!
I love your contests, it’s always a lot of fun to find ideas and DO things, crazy, or not!
So I had a few ideas for this one, but I must wait until a go back at my parent’s where I got all my stuff to achieve these, so I started to seek more ideas that I can create while I’m here in South France! I was reading the first part of the Desert Spear when I finally had one. I love Inevera’s character, and am fascinated by alagai’s magic, so I decided to try to make my version of alagai hora! So I waited the night, slaughtered some demons, took some bones, and carved them with wards (I don’t have prophecy wards, so I took the Misc wards and the mind ward) and Krasian symbols I invented from Arabic alphabet. And then, all I had to do was close the curtains, light a candle, and cast the bones:
Have a good day!
And expect another message in a few day when I finish the Desert Spear!
Jess
that’s pretty cool… the only problem is the Alagai Hora were carved out of Alagai bones, not painted on… but still cool 🙂
It’s wonderful that you are getting thoughts
from this post as well as from our argument made here.