Project Thesis

I have a lot of ideas rattling around up in my head and I'd like to show them to people. The but in that sentence is that most people expect a story attached to the idea, or want there to be some form of classical narrative to anchor it all. I'm actually incredibly bad at all that. Narrative is a sticky, tricky process where characters have to be developed and imbued with wills and intentions. They have to be wound up with motivations that feel reasonable and their reactions to those motivators have to be proportional. Almost any of these things can fall apart or fail to deliver with the slightest misalignment. I don't have the patience for that. What I do have though are settings. I also have a lot of training in graphic design, logo design, iconography, font selection, illustration, composition, and a whole bunch of other fancy terms to armor myself in as an artist. I can bring these things together, describe places through the things in them rather than a bog standard narrative. I've spent a lot of time considering how I would go about this, and this site is the result.

I present Sigilacra: An exploration of fantasy worlds through their branding, iconography, and other items that help anchor it. I don't plan on describing these worlds through extended blocks of fiction. Instead I'll be posting images and logos along with a tag for what world it belongs to, and a broad description about where it fits in the world. I might post more in this later as the thesis grows and changes, I consider this a stepping stone more than an unmovable edifice, but this is the base idea.

Now lets see if any of this actually works *hits publish*.