Shores of Night

 Welcome back to the blog and to the regular discussion of Werewolf: The Apocalypse.  This week, I'll be diving into three more Pentex subsidiaries focused on health and wellness. I explained why I wanted to do this in the last blog, but it more or less boils down to being struck how odd it was to me that there was nothing connecting Pentex to this area. This is an attempt to change that.  The first blog post detailed a health food chain, a luxury mineral salts company, and a New Age and Witchcraft book publisher and how they serve the Wyrm. Today we'll learn about an essential oils 'direct marketing' company, an online yoga business, and a men's health company.  Buckle up, this is a long one.  Eden's Blessing Essential Oils A 'Direct Marketing' Company based out of Cedar City, Utah, Eden's Blessing was founded in the late 19th Century. Initially created by two Mormon families, the Blacklocks and the Ellis', the company began as a producer of ano...

Hello and welcome back to the Shores of Night!   As it's a Wednesday and I still haven't run out of advice on creating worlds, welcome to the latest section of the World-Building Series.  If you're new, hello, and please don't run away, I'm really quite friendly. I'm just a little bit obsessed with building settings and worlds for roleplaying, fiction, or just for the sake of doing it. Making fictional settings is something I find very rewarding, and in showing you how to go about it I hope you'll find a love for it too.   This week, we'll start discussing how to include the Fantastic in your worlds. I know we've discussed magic and so on as part of the building process before, but I want to get right into the details of what, how, and most importantly, why to include something outside the mundane. Whether we're adding magic, super powers, psionics, advanced technology, or anything else that shifts the world away from what's outside our windo...

 Hello!  Welcome back to the Shores of Night, or if you're new here welcome for the first time. It's lovely to have you here. As usual, Sundays are dedicated to Werewolf: the Apocalypse , a roleplaying game by White Wolf Publishing , though the version I'll be referencing is the 20th Anniversary Edition published by Onyx Path Publishing . Last Sunday we talked about Pentex, and how the corporation operates slightly differently to some of the threats in the game, and discussed a couple of ideas about how the corporations might be incorporated into a Chronicle. Today, I want to think about how the company subverts anything it touches and how within the World of Darkness at least, Pentex operates to corrupt everything, turning even the most benign things into weapons for the Wyrm.  Partly, I want to focus on the Wellness industry because there are instances where it already seems a bit... weird, but also because health is one of humanity's underlying interests and it would...

 Welcome to the next part of the World-Building series! If you're new, hello—please subscribe and follow for more insights on creativity and world-building. Today, we're looking at something a little different because simply saying "have fun" isn't always helpful advice—what does that actually mean? I’m sure nobody needs my guidance on how to enjoy themselves, especially since my idea of fun involves playing roleplaying games, reading books, and listening to podcasts. If that sounds like you—welcome, kindred spirit! But "have fun" as advice can feel vague. Here, I mean it in the sense of keeping your passion for world-building alive. It’s easy to start strong and then burn out, get distracted, or feel like you've wasted your time. My pile of unfinished projects is a testament to that! I know the pain of losing momentum or chasing a shiny new idea. Hopefully, these tips will help you avoid the same fate. World-building—whether for roleplaying, writin...