Snakes and flooding

Today my mission is to sort out Kingdoms' timeline, so I know what's happening when, and what my antags are doing while I'm paying attention to Isyllt and her zombie cobras*. Losing track of antags is one of my biggest problems.

In the course of my calendar-staring, I realized that I had started the book in time for the inundation of the deNile. This kind of turns the kingdoms of dust into the kingdoms of silty floodplains, but it would require a lot of alteration to the timeline to avoid, so I'm going to embrace it. This means also embracing the sociopolitical ramifications of the season on the plot, and vice versa.

At least flooding rivers give me things to describe. They also increase the chances of throwing Isyllt into a body of water, since that's become a running joke in these books.


*Sadly, the zombie cobras do not join the adventuring party. It would be so much more awesome if they did. Hmm...

The naming of things

Quick! Name my ghoul city, which likely lies somewhere in the Sarcophagus Mountains. I have been stuck on this sentence for half an hour now, and unable to put in a note and move on.

ETA: Oops, I should clarify. It's a ghul city. In the Fauxgyptian empire.