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Worldbuilding: Togorun & the Immortality Schools
Learn more about OROBORO’s immortality schools and Togorun, the headless scholar known as the Crownless King.
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Reflections on OROBORO: No-Eyes
This is part of a series of essays reflecting on my writing and my dark fantasy setting, called OROBORO. Some of the earliest stories I set in the world of OROBORO were about a character called No-Eyes, who was a conman and necromancer. I imagined him as a kind of Cenobite astronaut—his head would be encased
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Reflections on OROBORO: Princess Mononoke & The Duality of Humanity
This is part of a series of essays reflecting on my writing and my dark fantasy setting, called OROBORO. When I was in middle school, I saw the Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke. Set in medieval Japan, it follows Ashitaka, a young man who becomes cursed by a monstrous beast. Two quotes from that movie
