“Oh. Oh well… I don’t do Mythics.”
/smile
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGcl_jZyj0
Strife’s reasons for allying with the Charred Council in Darksiders are quite a mystery and from what I’ve seen from the Cutscenes online he joined in hopes of answers. He clearly didn’t get any.
He was once an infamous Killer who didn’t need a reason to kill yet after joining the Charred Council he is all about questioning things. What sort of Genocides did Vulgrim(whom Strife knows full well enough to deem him absolutely not trustworthy) get him to commit and how much has Vulgrim kept from him!?
Fury of course later had to be duped by Vulgrim so Strife’s statement of not needing a reason to kill indicates that he is not the sort to care about reasons to wipe out entire civilizations(unlike Fury who was told she was removing invaders)!
Fury was a pawn while Strife was a hired goon whose curiosity drove him to the Charred Council in hopes of answers!
The Charred Council’s actions in Darksiders 3 are easy to decipher just from looking at Darksiders Genesis as well as Envy claiming the Talisman of Sin(owned by that Bird-thing that Fury mistook for Envy due to Envy’s insinuations) was the property of the Sins and the Horsemen’s Mutual Benefactor the Charred Council: They want to counter the Lord of the Hollows’ Animus!
Lucifer’s Animus was exposed to a camp that was completely wiped out with only a fraction of it’s taint escaping in a child so a Good Animus would shift Humanity’s Morality off balance and the Council doesn’t want that and thus needed the Talisman of Sin powered to Balance it out.
Of course Death’s previous withholding the knowledge of the Grand Abominations as well as War’s vouching for him made the Charred Council wary of telling the Horsemen of this plan and so pretended that the Deadly Sins escaped in an unknown fashion rather than being let out to power the Talisman of Sin and needing recapture now that the empowering is close to completion
The Charred Council don’t know Fury(who never cared about the Greater Good till it suited her) nor Strife(who just wants knowledge) as well as they know War and Death… That cost them…
Their agent holding the Talisman of Sin got killed and the Council seeing it as defiance had Fury’s Horse Rampage killed which enraged Fury into seeing the Council as Villains who fear the Horsemen… All because the Council didn’t know enough about Fury and Strife…
Your first book, unless you have a massive marketing campaign behind you, will almost never be financially successful. But that’s okay. This is your first time at the party and you’re just getting to know the other party goers as they are getting to know you.
The more you write, the more you market, the more you network, and so on, the more successful you will become.
Is it frightening? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes. Hell, all of the reviews on my novel were from advanced readers. I know people bought my book. They told me how much they enjoyed my book. But no one left a review.
But that was also in the dark days of Amazon cracking down on robo-reviews and the algorithm wouldn’t even let family members review.
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I would suggest to wait for 2 expansions to farm the dragonhawk mount, it does look pretty cool.
Tomorrow is somebody’s Birthday. 
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Pilgrims Bounty begins today!!!
Make sure to level all your alts in cooking!!
I know what I am going to be doing today!
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comes into the Lounge dragging a particularly large bear dressed in an Anduin Wrynn costume. The bear is, as usual, complaining
“I’ve told you before, as I have countless times before you psychopathic little midget; I am not a bear! I am Malfurion, the Archdruid! Just ask my wife…uhhh…Tyrone…I thi-”
smacks the bear in the head with a stick until he stops moving
That is one super duper naughty bear! Now he’s a birthday pinata for Cyndi!
trusses up the bear and hoists him up in the air before handing Cyndi a big stick with an bow that has otters on the ribbon
You just let me know if he doesn’t turn into tasty 
when you smack him good, okay? Happy Birthday, Cyndi!
P.S. don’t tell anyone, but that’s not really Anduin, it’s a bear I put a costume on!
giggles and climbs into Cyndi’s lap with his favorite blankie, a tasty , and watches adorable otter videos
I wish the laws of physics was applied to WoW. Like getting squashed under the elevator when it comes down and when a dead boss falls on you ,you get squashed too.
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It’s really rough to get that first book out there if you don’t have an agent and agency behind you. Do you “know” any social media influencers who would read and recommend the book? Can you arrange with a local bookstore to have a book signing? Are there internet places were “starving artists” hang out to encourage each other? Do you have an author’s Facebook or other media places where people can visit? Are there places that specialize in your genre where you can get a sympathetic response?
Basically, you have to get you and your book out there and that is a grinding test of anyone’s self esteem and ambition. See this as the part of your career where you are paying your dues and will make for good conversation when you are being interviewed in the future as a successful author.
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True but then kiss off all magic classes and most melee classes. Swinging a sword or other weapon the size of a surfboard isn’t going to work either. Oh, flying mounts? Let’s talk wingspans and lift. There isn’t much in the game that really works with physics or bio-mechanics. 
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This is very true. Even George R.R. Martin’s very first book signing had a whopping zero attendees!
But Pen is correct. Word of mouth promotion via readers is good. But nothing beats self-promotion. Facebook writing groups, an Instagram account, TWIT-ter…all are reasonable places to self-promote and meet self-pubbed authors who may be able to help you further your own career.
A reader, after all, is only part of the equation. I can absolutely love a particular book but if the author themselves aren’t out pounding the pavement like nobody’s business then you’re more likely to fall short of your goal.
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We tend to also be able to go through NPC’s and players like we are ghosts.
/gasps
Am I a ghost? I can also go through some trees as I’m flying. Maybe we are in some kind of metrix dimension created by some one or…
My character is now aware that she is made up, and the world she lives in is not real. Someone is controlling our reality.
Better put my phone away before Eitrigg, catches me.
Don’t look at me like that we all have phones what other way are our characters supposed to be on the forums.
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I don’t use Facebook because of my own personal issues. I do try and tweet market every day.
I also have a website I need to update sometime. I haven’t used it in a while because trying to do everything is just overwhelming at times.
I don’t know even how to attempt book signing yet.
I was going to start linking my book when I publish short stories though. Get my current fan base to try and go to Amazon.
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Just started watching a Walkthrough of Castlevania Lament of Innocence and noticed that Castlevania’s Doors are the exact same steel as Alessa’s Otherworld! As if Dracula’s Throne Room being made of Blood-Stained Metal Grates wasn’t enough there is now proof that Death’s aesthetics were older than Silent Hill’s founding!
Incidentally the Memos of Silent Hill Book of Memories states that Silent Hill’s religion and the Books of Memories were all brought to the Order by Valtiel AKA Metatron AKA Samael AKA Death…
Death was plotting Grimoire of Souls from the beginning! Death swooped in and hijacked the Order’s religion for his own schemes turning the Order from a Native American Cult into a Church with all the fixings of Dracula’s Chapels!
The 21 Sacraments and the Ritual of Holy Assumption are nothing more than an elaborate attempt to resurrect Count Dracula!
The Order’s God being reborn is simply the Order using it’s traditional resurrection ritual using Alessa as the one rebirthing the God while the 21 Sacraments requires the Sun God’s sacrifice and the sacrifice of the Receiver of Wisdom to resurrect Count Dracula!
Check out your locally owned bookstores in person. There is one near me in NC that, upon staff approval of the author’s book, that will lease shelf space and even host local signings. Business cards are a great tool as well. Not only do they allow you to market directly but a ton of places like coffee shops and other types of public venues will allow you to keep them available for their patrons.
Local bookclubs are another great way to market. Send a copy for review to your local newspaper. Look into possibly doing public readings at your local library, coffee shop, anywhere that offers live performances.
Marketing, particularly self-marketing, can be an absolutely terrifying prospect. But the important thing…the most important thing is to do what you do best, GET CREATIVE with it.
See, the book is only a relatively small part of the equation. Maybe about eh…20-25% of it. The other 75 to 80% is advertising yourself to new peeps. And, in my humble opinion, I think you have quite an interesting journey to talk about and to write stories about.
You got this, Merlina. It’s time to have faith in yourself the way I know I and several other people do. You’ve earned that. Not only from myself and others, but most importantly, from yourself.
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I know of some stuff to do irl but I feel like that will be easier once covid restricaions lift. Also I am person who is not willing to go out so I am more about “do stuff online.”
No doubt. But don’t wait for restrictions to lift entirely. Strike while the advertising market is “fresh” and stand out.
Online marketing will only go so far if you’re not already established. One of my original mentors started his professional career by writing about a friend of his that passed away. He literally assembled his books by hand late at night after having them printed one by one at Kinkos.
Point is, online is good. But despite not “being an in-person person”, you have to kind of force yourself to be one.
True story time. I was a MAJOR introvert up through the one year I spent away at college. I mean, it was bad. And this was well before the internet. But when I screwed myself out of a collegiate education, I went into the USMC…as a 90lb scrawny little puke who’d always eschwed anything remotely physically strenuous.
Yet, the day I marched across that parade deck in my Class A uniform with my Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, my attitude had changed profoundly. And it took some time to figure out why. But it was because I not only overcame my own stupid adversity and utter disdain of physical exercise, I’d done so in the most extreme manner.
At the end of the day, regardless of how you go about it, remember: this is your chosen career path, your business and livlihood. You’re the CEO, in this case literally, of your own future. Carry your head high and walk f***in’ PROUD of yourself. And push yourself to break those limitations anyone else and especially you place upon yourself!
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“I actually have a market set up for mine, if I can ever get them written.”
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I still don’t get how in person marketing will help more than online marketing.
I get that there is some stuff that will help and I will be trying to do it in the future but still I have felt that I have been able to meet more people though the internet with how things are these days and that is just who I am. I don’t feel comftable travaling all over the place and such.
But I have had a better time establashing a market online.
I am not trying to say I won’t do in person stuff I am just trying to say online is going to be a bigger part of my deal as it already is. It is what I spent part of the last year doing.
I attualy feel in person marketing would be more diffiuct than online.
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Dazed & confused. So cute and paranoid
“Love the song reference, but what does that have to do with me?”
/giggle