I’ll admit to not getting more than a sentence or two written on Chapter 5 of CeleKing1, but I have been making headway on the story’s outline. Unfortunately, it’s the latter half that I have mostly plotted out, which doesn’t help me much in the short term. Still, it’s progress and worth reporting. I know it won’t really have much impact on the story itself, but I’ve been working on naming all the noble houses on Erdi. That’s 1152 families. I was using the Baixing as a starting point, but even if there were more than the hundred in its name, it’s still well short of my goal. About 30% of the lords are non-Chinese and I figure several of the more common surnames will have multiple branch houses that have informal qualifiers to distinguish them (the ducal “Great Li” vs. the comital “Southern Li”, etc.). Then there are the toponyms. I’d like to at least have the map filled out to the county level, and there are 223 of those. You may consider this all to be a distraction from the actual writing of the story, but these are the measures I take for worldbuilding. Hopefully I can make more progress and catch up on my quota shortfall. (It doesn’t hurt that I’m already bored with this week’s event of GBF and that my hands can’t hold up to too much Hyrule All-Stars. ) Stay tuned.

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