HeirofAlexander's Ink Explosion

**Heiro de Bodemloze** · January 31, 2012, 09:14 AM

HEIROFALEXANDER'S
INK EXPLOSION

Here I have decided to put in all my contributions to this beautiful site and forum. It will range from entries to the tale of the week, vergil's challenge, scriptorium competition as well as private writing projects, both ongoing and previous. In addition to these will there be the official things I do, such as writing for modifications, writing guides, reviews. And of course the things I do for Content Staff, namely as per now the critic's quill. I have also decided to put some of my own history at the total war center, though short I assure you, and maybe some of my future plans and ideas for writing. This collection of my works, both great and small, might be lenghty for some, but then again, writing is basically the only thing I do. I hope you enjoy this ride through heirofalexander's life and lies.

Table of Contents

THE TALE OF THE WEEK
THE VERGIL'S CHALLENGE
THE SCRIPTORIUM COMPETITION

PREVIOUS SMALL WORKS
THE TALE OF NOBUTADA 2.0

THE CRITIC'S QUILL
THE HELIOS

WESTEROS: TOTAL WAR

THE TALE OF THE WEEK
The tale of the week is an absolutely wonderful competition hosted by the staff of the writer's study. Every week one of the staffers will put up a competition, including a themed picture and five keywords that must always be included in the entry. At the end of the week submission is closed and a poll put up. After a week of voting for your one to three favourites the winner is determined - he gains one wscm point and is one step closer to the next medal, be it bronze, silver or gold. I have very fond memories of the tale of the week - or totw for short - as it was where my affluences with the writer's study and its welcoming staff and lurkers. I remember after a year of absence I stumbled into the total war center
once again. To my now delight, I also came across the tale of the week section, though the reason is not present in my mind. I remember finding my way into the tale of the week discussion thread and
asking noobishly what the tale of the week was. Not long after I received a particularly friendly private message from Boustrophedon. He informed me of the basics, and was graceful enough to look through the drafts I had for my first entry. Ah, I was young and green at those times... since then I have been eager to enter the tale of the week whenever time and inspiration are both available.

ENTRIES
TotW 122 - One To Rule Them All
TotW 123 - The Architect of Defeat
TotW 124 - A Game of Shadows
TotW 125 - The Sun Sets On An Age - Winner
TotW 126 - Eternity Lasts Forever
TotW 127 - The Prisoner's Dream
TotW 128 - For Love And Duty
TotW 129 - Victory!
TotW 130 - For the Shogun
TotW 131 - Outpost
TotW 132 - Merry Men of the Forest
TotW 133 - A Brief Respite
TotW 160 - Resurrection
TotW 165 - Nothing Is True

THE VERGIL'S CHALLENGE
The Vergil's Challenge is a newly (as per the autumn of twenty twelve) restarted competition that does not give the regular wscm points but rather the victor is given a price of total war downloadable content or games. At seeing the theme of the first competition, I was immediately filled with inspiration. Another great competition hosted at the writer's study.

ENTRIES
Vergil's Challenge - Loyalty (Not yet finished, thereby no link to my submission.)

THE SCRIPTORIUM COMPETITION
The librarians of the scriptorium host this magnificent competition twice a year. Once during winter and another during the summer. I found this competition last winter (the one of early twenty twelve) and entered the short fiction almost at once. To my great joy and surprise I ended up with a third place, winning a bronze medallion.

ENTRIES
The Scriptorium Winter Competition 2012 - Short Fiction
The Scriptorium Summer Competition 2012 - Long Fiction

EARLY CREATIVE WRITING PIECES
After my initial activites at the writer's study, I was soon spurred to join in the - at the time - not so populous creative writing section. This is a forums where anyone can post their works - be it the spur of the moment of a long planned
revelation - both in short stories or series. With time and the great effort of especially the forum moderator Shankbot de Bodemloze, the creative writing has become a place of great activity among writers both new and experienced. My first series on this site was 'the tale of nobutada' a series that was inspired by a short story I did once. After tons of positive feedback and support, I finished it and went on to a new theme - the crusades. A story meant to portray the
characters more than the story I invested quite a lot of time into it at first, but after a while seeing it was not all I had hoped I became less and less interested in it. Sadly.

MY WORKS
The Tale of Nobutada
---- The story of a young man born into a family of samurai, Nobutada is a vassal of the Takeda clan of Kai province in Japan. Set during the period called Sengoku Jidai, also the time period of the Total War titles Shogun and Shogun 2, it features all the epic large battles of Takeda Shingen, the warlord, as well as some minor development of the character I named Il Nobutada.

Blood & Iron
---- A story of a family that gets divided by the cravings of the King who goes to crusade against the pagan Saracen. This story I used mostly for character development and to experiment on character arch and the use of point of view storylines. With time though, I sadly got tired of the era and the story, and finished the story in what can only be called shameful display. However, I have been getting some minor hints and requests that I should do a 2.0 for this story as well, so the story may not be dead yet...

The Tale of Nobutada 2.0
---- Not completely sated with my work on the first Nobutada tale, as well as feeling as there was another story to be told there, I stared working on another. Much more in depth research went into it, made out the chapters I'd write etc. It was, or is I should say as it is still running, the same storyline, many of the same characters - though some have been altered to bring more to the story.
(An amazing header made by Emperor of Hell for my tale):

CONTENT STAFF

THE CRITIC'S QUILL
During the spring of 2012 I started writing for the Critic's Quill, a publication focusing on the reviewing of After Action Reports and articles touching on the concerns of writing.

Issue 33

Review: The Hunter of Blunders by Lucky Lewis

Issue 34

Review: The Wolf Among Dogs by Radzeer

Issue 35

Article: The Importance of Description in Writing

Issue 36

Review: Resurgam by IrishHitman

Issue 37

THE HELIOS
After getting a taste for Content work, I approached Lord Rahl, editor of the Helios, to write for him and the team. He gracefully accepted, and since then (autumn 2012) I've been writing for the publication. The difference between this publication and the Quill is that the Helios specifies in articles, mostly historical or informative, political or otherwise enlightening.

Issue 66

Article: The Downfall of the Takeda

WESTEROS: TOTAL WAR
During the early autumn of 2012 I was lucky enough to join the higly talented team of modders who are currently composing the modification for Medieval II: Total War - Kingdom, based off the hit fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin (which has also been adapted into the HBO TV show Game of Thrones).

The talents I could offer lay I writing and some researching to help my fellow developers. I have so far mainly been doing the units description, which involved writing fairly unique descriptions for the great number of different units made for the mod. I have also been assisting fellow member Inarus in building descriptions.

The sig I was given for becoming a part of the WTW team: