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Planes? Isn't that MtG-ish?

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As regards constructs, I'd much prefer Realms of Artifice, to 'of the Constructs.'

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As regards constructs, I'd much prefer Realms of Artifice, to 'of the Constructs.'

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Including Artifice in the book's title would also help denote content-stories about magical and/or non-mechanical constructs -- in other words, those artificial beings that were forged via combinations of arcane and/or divine application, like golems for example.

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I have only one request for such an anthology, however. Trobriand and his magnificent construct-creations must feature somewhere in the stories.

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Well, I did mention Squch...

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For Realms of the Constructs, remember it doesn't only have to be individual constructs. It can also be about the people who make them and why. The two stories I would like to see would be something by Richard Lee Byers about Dorn (before, during, or after the Rage of Dragons trilogy) and something by Paul S Kemp about Brennus Tanthul, who if I recall correctly was into making constructs before he went into divination. The latter of those two would hopefully be set way in the past while his mother was still alive.

Beyond those two, you have assorted living constructs to write about. Perhaps a magic user in one of the old empires experimenting with construct making. Perhaps a dying mage attempting to place his mind inside a construct. Maybe a Lord of Blades esque character who wants to rally constructs to his cause. A story about the statues in Waterdeep could be interesting. Their construction, a past use of them perhaps, or a story detailing when they went crazy due to the Spellplague (maybe even as a lead in into The God Catcher)

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Not being a devil's advocate here, but I just don't see it as Realmsian. Not that there are no constructs in FR. However, they've always been given too little attetion, and I guess that's because constructs are too steampunk-ish, and there's Eberron for that.

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Those who like constructs might find this novel quite interesting. It's about a wizard/artificer, aided by nothing but his incalculable intelligence, who transforms himself into a "breathing" construct. A fascinating story from a NY Times Bestselling Author.

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Through a place that wasn’t, where time held no meaning, the figure walked.

Winds blew, and they were not winds. Without source, without direction, they tossed the outsider’s hair one way, clothes another. They were the hot gusts of an arid desert, the frigid breath of the whirling blizzard. They bore the perfume of growing things, the rancid tang of death, and scents unknown to any sane world.

The ground rolled, and it was not ground. Shifting grays and black—not a color so much as a lack of color—formed a surface scarcely less treacherous than quicksand. Through it, deep beneath it, high above it in what could hardly be called a sky, snaked rivers of fire, of lightning, of liquid earth and jagged water, of raw mana. Colors unseen by human eyes flew overhead, refusing to congeal, soaring on wings of forgotten truths, borne aloft by stray gusts. Mountains of once and future worlds wept tears of sorrow for realities that never were, unchosen futures that no other would ever mourn.

Chaos. Impossibility. Insanity.

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