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Being an avid troper, I discovered this through TV Tropes' "Writing Excuses" article. I figured, "Hey, I love researching stuff! And I need help researching all the little details for my story, anyway."

Specifically, I'm researching Pre-Christian/Medieval Germany and Ireland for a story because I'm sick of the generic "European fantasy" going around ( Read more... )

I'm working on a reincarnation story where the characters start out in Germany (specifically Bingen-on-the-Rhine) in the 700s, and end up, after several incarnations that end in blood and death, in 2011. The reason for all this born-again-ness is that one of the characters, knowing she was about to be executed, cast a spell to ensure that she and ( Read more... )

In a story I am writing (which takes place in Weimar era Germany), I want to set a scene outdoors in May or June. I've been looking at the weather singularities - Schafskälte (sheep's cold) and Eisheiligen (ice saints). Unfortunately, most of the information I am finding is in German and my language translation skills are still not very good ( Read more... )

Greetings! I'm working on an alternate history short story, in which WW1 never happens. Sort of; there's a large European War from about 1930-35, which then leads to the Cold War ( Read more... )

Setting: This takes place in the present day, but the child in question was born in 1980 and is nine years old. He skipped into the future several years, but all his knowledge would come from the 1980s. However, his friend is from Japan, born in 1988 but also skipped several years into the future ( Read more... )

I need a name that could be used for the personification of Death in Germany and surrounding regions. It can derive from any era post AD 500, though it might also be from an earlier mythology in the region if it survived up to that point. The original deity/spirit could be a ruler of the underworld, but the problem is, I need a male (der Tod, after ( Read more... )