Against The Wicked City

I've mentioned before that the setting of ATWC is loosely pegged to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which for the peoples of Ce...

Art plays a major role in how we visualise other cultures. Our view of ancient Greece is heavily shaped by all those white marble statues: w...

Even in its decayed state, the Wicked City remains a major centre of trade in six commodities: clockwork technology, medicines and opia...

Most of the land through which the Great Road passes is extremely barren, and as such its route is determined by a continuous compromise ...

As I've mentioned before , one of the things that interests me about Central Asia is the diversity of its religious traditions. Judia...

if this was actually written by Chris Tamm it would have been better just imagine its all in white text on a black background writin...

The length of the Great Road is dotted with cities, but it is also littered with ruins. The road itself is vastly older, and more resilie...

Khan's palace, Kokand, Uzbekistan. There are dozens of cities strung out along the four-thousand-mile length of the Great Road, and...