This week we should be celebrating the 9th birthday of my son.
Instead we are celebrating the 9th anniversary since his murder.
If you have any information, please call FBI Portland Office @ 207-774-9322
ask for Agent Andy Drewer.
November 14, 2013 10PM @ Southern Maine Community College Art Studio Bug-Light Parking Lot: 3 strangers armed with golf clubs, attacked me from behind while I was loading bags into the backseat of my car. They were a blond woman 60s-ish whom the others called "Claire", a natural red-haired woman also 60sish who called herself "Kendra", and a bald man, football player-body-type-build in his 30sish. I was 8 months pregnant. They murdered my baby, ruptured 3 discs in my spine, shattered 3 vertebra, broke my pelvis, hips, and knees. I was paralyzed for 5 months and was 18 months relearning to walk. The nerve damage has left me with limited use of my hands, legs, bladder, and intestines.
On top of that, they have also taken to harassing the baby's father, a disfigured, homeless, WW2 veteran, whom they call "Etoile". They spread hateful rumours about him claiming he is a cryptid, a demon, or most often what they term "an amphibious alien". He lives in pine branch lean-toos he builds in Old Orchard Beach and Ocean Park, and they have been hunting the locations of them, tearing them down, and smashing up his belongings.
April 10, 2015 1PM at 146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach Maine a gang of estimated 74 people, some of them wearing ku klux klan robes, invaded my farm, used a Blow Brothers sewage truck to pump 500+gallons of sewage into my motorhome flooding it to over the kitchen counters deep, ripped out all the cabinets and built in furniture, while 14 men armed with guns, held my family down on the ice and snow, with guns to our heads, and used cinder block bricks and a metal pole with metal wire loops to beat and behead 10 of my 12 foster children (the youngest age 4, the oldest age 16). May 15, 2015 they returned and nailed their heads to my front door. The 3 people of the November 14, 2013 attack were among the group.
September 12, 2015, 9AM a dozen+ of these same people arrived again in my driveway at 146, this time chanting: "Too gay for the family friendly town of Old Orchard Beach. Kill of be killed. Remember Saco Shaw's, Transgender Murder Store, kill the transvestites before they kill us all", one white haired man in a dark green pick up truck was leading the herd, while waving a rifle over his head and shooting at me and my pink motorhome, he shot several holes through my neighbour's shed. The crowd was accusing me of being a male-to-female "transgender terrorist" (they thought I was Muslim because I wear Catholic veiling).
June 26, 2016, the same 2 women of the first 2 attacks, arrived at my Scarborough WalMart workplace, and in a near repeat of the first attack, again while I was leaned over the back seat of my car putting bags in, this time they attacked with a chopping cart, re-injuring my spine, hip, and pelvis that was not yet fully healed from the first attack. The blond "Claire" woman was screaming "That's EelKat, she tried to kill my husband!" while the redhead screamed "I'm Kendra Silvermander it's my turn the shine!" They sped away in a early2000s-vintage gold Volvo SUV station wagon. This attack left me permanently crippled, and bedridden from 2016 until May 2022.
November 21, 2021: They shot "Etiole" in Biddeford, while he was staying at the tent-shanty-village with about 50 other homeless people along the Saco River in Biddeford. They made the claim he was a "suicide demon" citing that he was driving locals to suicide by putting "evil eye curses" on them.
These people murdered my baby, attempted to murder the baby's father, drove a backhoe over our house, and left me crippled for the rest of my life in their attempt to murder me.
I do not know who these people are. I never saw them before these attacks, and I've not seen them outside of these attacks. The police and FBI believe I was not the intended target, and that they were likely after my mother because of posts she makes on FaceBook and got us mixed up. The Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police and the FBI are seeking information leading to their identity and arrest.
More Info @ eelkat.com
Long detailed info on the over 200 attacks they have done between June 2001 and May 2022, including photos of them driving a backhoe over our house on August 8, 2013 and the details of the malicious "amphibious alien" rumour they have been spreading about a local homeless disabled veteran @
https://www.eelkat.com/AmphibiousAliens.html
Images:
July 4th 2013: my car in front of my house.
August 8, 2013: me getting home from work to find a backhoe sitting on top of my house.
The FBI already found the people with the backhoe incident, and learned that the backhoe driver was paid $600 and given a fake demolition paper, the paper stating one of my relatives (the one who paid him the $600) owned my land. The backhoe driver was unaware that the man he was dealing with was not the owner. I have lived at 146 Portland Ave since 1975 and have owned the land since 1983, it has never been owned by anyone else, even though we have now learned that both my mother and my father and 3 of my uncles had been actively going around Old Orchard Beach claiming they owned my land.
This happened 3 months before my son was murdered and the police and FBI believe my son was murdered BECAUSE of this picture being posted on FaceBook, and my mother making inciting/inflammatory posts about it on HER FaceBook, where she falsely accused me of being a witch. The FBI and OOB police believe the golf club wielding woman of November 14, 2013, is somehow connected to the backhoe driving over my house incident.
Since the murder, 3 other different backhoes have invading my land to dig up my yard, looking for the grave of my son. There is a family cemetery on my land, the stones dating mostly in the 1500s and 1600s, with a few from the past hundred years, the most recent being my son in 2013. 146 Portland Ave has belonged to my family since 1530, and I inherited it in 1983 from my grandmother Helen Ricker Allen. The most recent backhoe attack happened September 19, 2020, when they illegally cut down several trees in my yard, and started construction of a road through my yard between my pink 1975 Dodge Sportsman motorhome and BackElder Brooke, again the backhoe digging up and destroying large portions of my farm, in their search for my murdered son's grave. They dug up 16 of the graves in this attack.
We have had to remove the grave markers from the family grave in order to stop these vandals and their illegally trespassing construction equipment from destroying the graves.
The FBI believes these construction crews are being hired by the golf club wielding women, and believe she is trying to destroy the grave of my son, due to a fear of his golf club smashed skull being used as court evidence against her.
The most recent attacks by these people occurred November 21, 2021 and March 27, 2022 when they attacked my painted Volvo while it was parked at my dad's apartment in Biddeford, both times the vandals also cut all the wires to electricity, internet, and cable off the apartment building, effecting all 9 families living there.
The Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police Departments as well as the Portland FBI are seeking any information regarding any and all of these attacks on my family, my home, my land, or my cars.
If you have any information, please call FBI Portland Office @ 207-774-9322
ask for Agent Andy Drewer.
Number of continents in your fantasy world?
Discussion in 'Fantasy' started by Millamber, Aug 21, 2017.
** I'm not sure if I should put this here for Fantasy, or in World Building? Please move as appropriate **
I'm just wondering, for those that make up their own worlds when writing fantasy novels, how do you decide upon the number of continents you'll use? Or do you not even bother? Do you just make one large area for the story, and expand as and when/if you need to?
I'm curious on what process you follow when making your world for your fantasy novels?
I do my worldbuilding culturally/society based, and write up a background story for each one (about 10k to 20k words each group) and each influenced by geographic regions, but, have never drawn up a map or tried to figure out how many countries/ continents/ providence/ etc there were. It's never something that has been important to the story to know. Partly because the main character himself doesn't know and every novel in the series is told from his POV.
I use the background story as a reference point when writing about the group/ race/ culture. It'll list important features of their society, foods unique to their culture, harvests/ crops/ trade goods they are known for, religious practices and family traditions particular to their culture. Fashion, jewelry, home life, education style, money, creation stories, mythologies, deities, tribal customs, building materials, imports and exports, transportation, sex, food, housing, the various types of pets people have, things their people find important, things they find taboo. Any important people, leaders, wars, natural disasters, events. That sort of stuff. I'll write it up as though it were a wikipedia page for their people. This acts as my reference point while writing the novel itself. Many of the details may not be featured in the story, but the details affect the people and how they think and act.
I know when a lot of people hear the term worldbuilding they think about mapmaking and cartography, measuring the land, tossing mountains here and lakes there, charting out roads, and making sure characters don't make a move unless they stick to the drawn out maps... but... to me, that's planet building, not world building.
Worldbuilding to me is not the planet and it's landscape, but rather it's people and their society, thus, the world.
I mean, think about it... a world without a society is not a world at all, it's just a deserted planet. A population and it's culture is what makes a planet an inhabited world.
And, you as a writer yourself... how much of your map do you actually use in the story? Do you really write in detail the directions of the streets and the placement of the houses? How much of your mapmaking do you ACTUALLY USE in your written novel?
When was the last time you read a story that wrote out map directions? How boring would that even be to read?
Worldbuilding is more than building a planet, putting setting places in it, and then randomly dropping your characters inside.
Thus you see me, instead of creating a planet, rather creating societies. But then you don't see me massively building up every society either. One set of notes, may focus on the cities food culture, because in that particular story, Quaraun is looking for a place to stop and eat. Another set of notes may focus on the local cult's traditions, because Quaraun is gonna have a run in with the cult leader. In both cases, I may completely neglect to detail any other aspect of their society, because no other aspect of their society is important to the story.
In other words... I don't waste my time building intricate details that will never be used in the story. If the readers are never going to see it, then why bother building it?
You must remember, that unlike the hobby writer who will spend a decade or more writing a single novel, I'm writing a novel a month and publishing 4 a year. When writing is your job, you don't have the option to meander around, lazying your ass off creating useless nothings for the sake of filling up every corner of your world, whether you'll ever use it in the story or not. You flesh out what needs to be fleshed out, you focus on details that are important to the story, and then you move on.
Main character, Quaraun, ends up visiting a lot of cultures around the world, so I have a lot of these background story reference notebooks. He's a wandering vagabond wizard just walking around the world. Once in a while gets on a ship and crosses an ocean. Sometimes he's in deserts, sometimes jungels, but most times here's in Northern frozen wastelands and arboreal forests. The stories all deal with his personal interactions with the people he meets. He never really knows where he is, and just described the area as "swamp land" or "desert" or "on the coast" and "a small village" or "roaming tribe" a big city, etc without ever stopping to ask anyone "So, what is the name of this town/city/country?"
Another thing is Quaraun's personality. He views Humans as a parasite that are destroying the planet. Thus he doesn't care to know the names of this race of Humans vs that race of Humans. He's not interested in the name of this insignificant Human religion vs that equally insignificant Human religion.
Elf society does not lay claim to land. They do not feel it is possibly to own land. They have no concept of territorial boundaries and naming provinces or countries or continents. Thus you see Quaraun not acknowledging the fact that Humans do these things. So again, even more lack of a need to chart continents.
Elves never developed weapons and do not fight in wars. They are generally a peaceful people living in small tribal communities. So most Elf groups are not big enough to have political leaders or governments. Quaraun comes from one of the largest Elf groups and they only had around 300 people. There's never any wars or battles or politics and such going on (well, it probably is going on somewhere, but he's no interest in that stuff, so those sorts of things are never mentioned) and as a result of this, there has never been a need for me to sit down and figure what the specific landmass variations are or what to name them.
And so, because of the way I write the novels, I don't feel a need to build certain aspects of the world, including to have not even drawn out a map of the world, thus I have no clue how many continents there are.
It's generally assumed to be a quasi-alternate earth, with similar land mass and similar history, though the races and countries are quite different, so I suppose it's logical to assume 7 continents, but it may not be. I suppose I should eventually try to figure it out. 40th anniversary of the series is next year, making a map of the world might be a good thing to do for that.
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