Design Graphics

Golden filigree/swirly decorative graphics & construction sign
From Adobe Stock and used under a Standard license for visual assets. May or may not be altered by me, which is permissable under said license.
Parchment textures
From a long-defunct website called rainharbour.net
The Black Lace background tile
I have no idea, to be honest. I've had it since 2007 so I've long since forgotten where it came from. If you know, please do let me know.

 

Imagery

Images
Unless otherwise mentioned were created by the author using AI programs. This is mostly Stable Diffusion 1.5, though I am starting to move into SDXL and Flux. I do hand-alter them, and occasionally have them finish off work I hand drew.

Font Credits

  It's just a long list ok

General Text Fonts

All fonts used in the text proper are from Google Fonts:
Large headers - Metamorphous
Medium Headers/Drop caps - Cinzel
Small headers--Crimson Text

 
Character Handwriting
Asmodeus - Comforter Brush
Astaroth - Sassy Frass
Azrael - Windsong
Cain - Allison
Dagon - Qwigley
Dante - Splash
Duck - Inspiration
Gabriel - Shalimar
Grigorius - Smooch
Isis - Babylonica
Leviael - Bonheur Royale
Mastema - Water Brush
Samael - Kolker Brush
Generic Handwriting 1 - Oooh Baby
Generic Handwriting 2 - Whisper
Generic Handwriting 3 - Grey Qo
Generic Handwriting 4 - Qwitcher Grypen
Generic Handwriting 5 - Lavishly Yours
Generic Handwriting 6 - Monsieur La Doulaise
Generic Handwriting 7 - Mea Culpa
Generic Handwriting 8 - Passions Conflict
Generic Handwriting 9 - Miss Fajardose
Generic Handwriting 10 - Cherish
Generic Handwriting 11 - Mr. De Haviland
Generic Handwriting 12 - Ruthie
Generic Handwriting 13 - Stalemate
Generic Handwriting 14 - CRUELLY EXCISED as I accidentally used the same font twice. Generic Handwriting 15 - Licorice
Generic Handwriting 16 - Lovers Quarrel
Generic Handwriting 17 - Condiment
Generic Handwriting 18 - Dr. Sugiyama
Logolike - Yellowtail
Ivyfont - Ivy Font
Heart Font - Love Light
WeathertypeFont - IM Fell English
Playful font - Puppies Play
Milonga Font - Milonga
Pixel Print Font: Pixelify

"Crimson Court" logo
LeKick, an Adobe font available to users of Adobe products. Used with permission.


 

Tools I Have Used (or Will)

Inkarnate
Overlap maps
Dungeon Alchemist
Regional and Interior Maps
Hero Forge
Virtual Miniatures
Talespire
Complicated or Unique Maps
Microscope: A Fractal Roleplaying Game
Great for worldbuilding and timeline brainstorming
The Ultimate RPG Campfire Card Deck
For focusing on characters and their details
Story Engine Card System
Just the best for unsticking the brain.
Create Galaxy
Used to create the starmaps and starry skies on headers.
Obsidian
To organize stuff. I do most of my pre-planning in Obsidian (and pre-writing when I pre-write...).
OneNote
Yeah I use both this and Obsidian... Anyway, I keep information and SD prompts for specific characters and such in One Note.
Photoshop
Eh, you know what this is.
Clip Studio
I used to use this just on my iPad but I'm moving it to my PC so I should be using it more often now.
Free BBCode Table Generator
If you see a BBCode table, it came from here. They make my head hurt.
Study with Cats
My very favorite Pomodoro. I do wish their whole backlog was still on youtube, because I find it use it less on Patreon, but it's free either way.
Vulgar Language
I use this to generate the initial rules and vocabulary of my languages and then I, uh, slowly slowly slowly go through and alter things and make sure I don't hate any of the sounds.
Height Comparison
For scaling. I used it to help with scaling when I put together the banner on the Characters page.

 

Sites That Taught Me Stuff

CodeAcademy
I took their CSS courses to catch up with modern CSS. ...I think I still have one more lesson to do...
Bring Your Own Laptop
Where I learned Adobe Illustrator!
Advanced Uses of Tags
My entire navigation system is based on this. Thank you Satrium!
W3Docs
A lot of fine-tuning CSS was learned here.
Tips and Tricks for Using Icons
The bullet point and big/small quotes would not exist if not for this! Thank you, hcraven!
Nnie's CSS Repository
General information, and most notably... styling the breadcrumbs. Hell yeah! Thank you, Annie Stein!
Stormbril's CSS Add-Ons
I bought them all and then studied them, lmao. I don't think I've used any of them directly, but it taught me a lot. Thank you Stormbril!

Hearts For...

hugowalker
I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be able to do anything useful without you there to support and inspire and brainstorm and cheer. Also, I can't overstate how influential your thoughts, your writing, your artwork, and yourself have been to me both creatively and personally. AND THANK YOU FOR MICROSCOPING THE WORLD'S HISTORY GAPS WITH ME.

Thanks To...

Um, Everyone Who Follows CC or Me, and Everyone Who Drives By, Too
I'll be honest, I didn't expect anyone but me and hugo up there to read this. I've been incredibly flattered and blown away by how many people have come by and chosen to stay and the awards and honorary mentions I've received. It's all inspiring! And it's definitely inspired me to improve the site with quality of life features like the navigation menu and little summaries.

Clare C. Marshall
She does actual play videos of herself using things like Microscope or Story Engine to worldbuild and brainstorm. It's very inspirational. Hope she's doing well.

Inspirations...

Berserk, by Kentaro Miura
Genuinely my favorite piece of fiction of all time. Obviously there's a great deal of air space between the kind of story Berserk is and the kind of world/story I'm creating, but the influences are all over everything I do.

Generators

Names

  • Aeldan
  • The Ever-changing Book of Names (Sadly no longer available)
  • Donjon
  • Mythopedia
  • Fantasy Name Generators
  • FantasyNameGen
  • Namesery
  • Mythjourneys

    • Other

  • Azgaar's github
  • Watabou's tools
  • Fake Word Generator
    • Early Chuck Palahniuk Novels
    Mostly the rhythm of his writing, which ate its way into my brain decades ago.
    Interview with the Vampire (tv show)
    I started watching this long after I started working on/developing CC, but it serves as an inspiration for me because it's tonally and thematically similar to some aspects of what I want to do... and it's an extraordinary piece of work, so it reminds me that these things can be done excellently. The shiny star one aims for even when it is out of reach!
    "Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer" by Tanith Lee
    To be honest I haven't read it in ages, but it was formative.
    "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman et al
    If Berserk didn't exist, this would be my favorite piece of fiction of all time. I know Gaiman is... a problem, but the past is the past.
    "Monster" by Naoki Urasawa
    If Berserk and Sandman didn't exist, this...
    A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    Not the show. The books. I'm not being an elitist, it's just that I read the books much earlier and all the way through whereas I stopped watching the show sometime in Season 2
    Gossip Girl
    Listen. If you get Berserk and Gossip Girl and merge them into a story with a lot of lgbtq themes and isekai elements then you'd have something not wholly unlike this world. Don't think about it too much.
    A bunch of Isekai Webcomics
    At some point isekai webtoons became a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine - action isekai, romance isekai, whatever - and that's basically how I came across the tropes that I'm trying to examine.
    Music to get me in the Empirica Sin mood
    "Starlight: by Rachael Yamagata
    "The Lonely" and "Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perri
    "Cicio" from the soundtrack to the House on Fata Morgana
    "Feel" from the soundtrack to Lies of Pi
    The albums "Timber" and "Whaler" by Sophie B. Hawkins
    "Body Parts" by Jump Little Children
    The album "Haunted" by Poe
    "Sunshiny Milk" by Nostalghia
    "Schadenfreude" by Karyn Whittemore
    Everything Damien Rice
    The albums "Equipoise" and "Building the Colossus" by Happy Rhodes
    "The Scientist" and "Yellow" by Coldplay
    "The Ruler and the Killer" by Kid Cudi
    The albums "Idler Wheel" and "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" by Fiona Apple
    The album "War in Wonderland" by Neoni
    ...I could keep going
    Years in fandom
    Just years and years.