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Anyway, what kind of artifact are we talking here? It seems to me like it'd have to be something like city-sized to go and nearly extinguish a sun. Which would be pretty fun - imagine being inside a sun-killing god-machine as it fires up and flares with ancient unstable magic.

Moreover, what exactly does the artifact do? I imagine it kills suns in one way or another, or at least grievously harms them. If so, then when it activates would it go out and shoot down Fyr? Thus sending Maki on a quest to come back and get revenge for the planet that nearly killed its brother?

Imagine something like a hundred days of endless night if the artifact fires up, followed by Maki returning in full and bringing a hundred days of searing red light. That'd be something for the theologians to think about.

Also how exactly are Fyr and Maki different? Do they embody different concepts in the popular consciousness? Are they particularly different in actual character? Are they actively shaped by the beliefs of the Oberonians? What religions exist around them and/or other gods, if there actually are any?

A few questions and comments regarding your map:

- I see you've put down 20 countries, but only 13 of them have names. This implies to me that you've prioritized putting down borders over fleshing out the countries. This is almost certainly a bad idea; letting your countries grow naturally as you write their histories is a much more natural and fun process than trying to fill an arbitrary number of countries and writing backstories to justify their borders.

- On that note, what kind of culture do your countries have? How do the people there live? This kind of stuff is more important than you can imagine. Making places more distinct than "Generic European Fantasy" is key to having an immersive and interesting world.

- Why is all of that space uninhabited? There's nothing wrong with having area where nobody lives, but there should be a reason why. Looking at real-world history, typically only the most truly inhospitable places of the Earth were completely uninhabited--even "empty" land like the Mongolian steppes or the frozen north of Fennoscandia has people who live there. Alternatively, is the empty space on the main landmass Orc territory, as your backstory seems to imply? If so, you should probably mark that--usually, even areas with no rigid nation-states occupying the region are marked with something like "such-and-such tribes" or "so-and-so territory".

- How big is this stuff? Like, is this place Europe-sized or Asia-sized? Does it take a week to get from Espera to Eralta or a month?

- Where's this High Lake? Is it the hole-looking thing at the Galta-Alem border?

- What is the purpose of the seemingly uninhabited landmasses to the east and south?

That seems weird saying that O.O.

So I didn't see the debate, but mom did, and what she said about it is worrying. Though note that she's voting for Trump, just to give you a good idea of where she's coming from.

One thing specifically she said happened struck me as hilariously horrible.
According to mom, at one point Bernie Sanders literally said he would "Only support universal free college for Blacks"

So, is mom just mishearing things to fit her bias, or is that an actual standpoint of Bernie's position?