Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy, a blog dedicated to all things fantasy and speculative fiction, from book reviews to essays on world building, characters, and favorite novels.

Saturday Art: Arxeal (Anidril System, #5)

Continuing the Anidril System series, today we have with us Arxeal, first of the gas giants. (Original art by Raina Nightingale). Arxeal is the first, and smaller, of Anidril's two gas giants. In fact, Arxeal is a very small gas giant, with only six major moons, though some of those moons are quite large. Being …

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Saturday Art: Areaer (Anidril System, #2)

Hi! Next Saturday will be more HEART OF FIRE art, just before the release... For now, here's Areaer. Areaer is Anidril's second planet. Very similar in size, composition, and year to our Earth, if you somehow found yourself on Areaer, perhaps the first clue that you were somewhere new would be the night sky, full …

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Raina’s Fantastic Ramblings: Discovering Beauty Through World-building

This one is likely to be a little short, since I have been busy lately preparing some books to be published (or re-published), and have not kept ahead of things. So, today I'm just going to talk a little about something that has been on my mind: how writing stories has broadened my appreciation of …

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