I have added my notes for Earendel, a worldbuilding project by my friend Corey and myself. It's currently a mess, but I hope to organize it soon. There will be a bunch of broken links to copyrighted images that I have removed.

I don't write much, I'm not very good at it. But here's a fragment that I wrote in February 2024. I wrote it as part of my worldbuilding of Gorwellis. I liked that world, and I may revisit it someday, but all of the worldbuilding was done using AI, and it isn't something I can really call mine.

As I wander into the vast unknown land, I guess I should state here a recounting to my journey up to this point, as up until today I have had no provisions for writing, having lost my journals to the sea.  Hopefully this one survives better than the last.

I am Samuel James Puckman, Esquire.  I am a writer and explorer, and I have come to Gorwellis to find new experiences to publish back in Eonvale, where admittedly I have had little success.  I came to this land via a merchant vessel, which hired me on for the trip.  About half way through the journey, one of the sailors took a disliking to me and threw my journals and supplies into the sea.  Luckily I still had my silver on my person.

I arrived in this small village of Landfall in the Duchy of Laurel, part of the Kingdom of Mercy.  It is a small Kingdom compared to Eonvale, but it is said that they have nearly as many churches, and have two abbeys, The Abbey of St. Ealdwin the great, and the Abbey of St. Cletus the fisher.  I plan on visiting both abbeys, but I have to admit, the prospect of staying at the abbey of Cletus I find a bit dull.  It's a small remote place.

Today I spent all morning in the customs office, obtaining a writ of free passage.  After that was complete, I spent a long time exploring the streets of Landfall.  They have two pubs here, one for locals and another for “Continentals”.  I shall endeavor to dine with the locals tonight.

There is also a church in the peculiar style of this land.  There are three shrines within, one to each of the great saints.  The exterior of the church looks like a three pointed star with the ends removed.  The priest has a raised dais which he stands upon, and preaches to his congregation,  who all stand around him equally.  Surrounding the dais is a spiral stair that the priest ascends at the beginning of the sermon.

There is a tower outside of the church and disconnected from it which holds the bell.  This tower looks older than the church, so perhaps the original church was replaced?  The priest had no idea about the history of the church, or at least did not tell me.

I met a merchant that is traveling to Aldercrest, the capital of Ealdwinrealm.  He says that if I go to the western edge of the country, I may encounter Elves!  Imagine that, an elf in the flesh.**

Here is a newspaper clipping from August 24, 1771. It documents that the ship "Recovery" had sailed. That ship was carrying Philip Burbach to America, where his son would adopt the name Purbaugh. I do plan on adding a genealogy section to this site at some point.