The Realm of Kaerwyn

Well, just letting you all know that Issue 21 of The Realm of Kaerwyn is well underway.

Each Kaerwyn page takes a significant amount of time to produce and as such, it really helps me out a ton for anyone that is willing to help support it monetarily. And, that said, there’s now two ways you can help support it month to month.

We have Patreon and now we have Ko-Fi memberships! Ko-Fi also allows one time ‘tips’ without a commitment.

In addition, I have added wallpapers that were previously only available to $10+ supporters on my Patreon shop. So if you just want to buy one, you can!
Monthly supporters will get to see the comic updating much earlier than the public sites!
If you enjoy the comic, please consider subscribing! If you can’t afford it, please tell other people about it and help spread the word!

In addition, The Realm of Kaerwyn is a role playing site. We call it “Creative Group Writing” Role Playing. You create a character and you play that character in a chat room with other players. The best part, it’s free. And you get to participate in some of the same types of plots and stories as we’ve posted as comics (Note: the comic version and RP version are separate and characters from the RP are not necessarily included in the comic. So don’t sign up thinking you’ll get a character in the comic, please.)

More information on Kaerwyn is available on our Wiki. Please don’t let the rules scare you. They can be intimidating, but we always try to help newcomers learn and adjust, even if you might break one or two from time to time. The rules exist to help us keep things running smoothly – knowing that we allow characters from all kinds of different worlds and places, with all kinds of powers and items.

If you think that your writing or your English is not good enough, try it out anyway. We’ve helped people get better at writing through the practice that comes from role play. Some of our ESL players have gone from being barely understandable to indistinguishable from native English speakers.

Note that Kaerwyn is for players who are 15+ years old. Please don’t try to join it if you’re not already 15.

So we hope to see you there!

Hi everyone. You might have noticed the site has changed significantly. Some things from the old Grawlix based site are missing (The Discus comments), and the calendar is … very messed up. Let me explain.

Grawlix was a shiny new comic Content Management System (CMS) when we first got it, and the developers for it seemed very eager to continue working on it. That was great until one day they just disappeared and stopped supporting it. During that time, PHP, one of the most popular web scripting languages upgraded their servers from 5 to 7 (I don’t know what happened to 6 either). And php7 was not backwards compatible with many things that was built for php5. We have run php5 for as long as we were able, but like most things regarding web services we cannot control, we were forced to upgrade to the latest version of php. To make a long story short, the update was out of our control and broke Grawlix.

So what could we do about it? The answer was simple – go back to Comicpress/Comic Easel for WordPress. We stopped using WordPress because it mysteriously stopped working one day that we never quite figured out. But WordPress is still the standard for webcomic hosting and here we are. There are some nice things about WordPress, but there will be some issues that may exist long term.

Notably:

• The Calendar is messed up: Comicpress/Comic Easel has a bulk uploader, and this was basically a requirement for a comic that has almost 1500 pages. The only problem is that the pages have to be in a Year-Month-Day format. All the pages were in a Issue#Page# format for Grawlix. The only way we could feasibly bulk upload all of these pages was to assign the first page an arbitrary date and go up from there. Now some of the issues in the past, that used WordPress originally still had their YYYY-MM-DD format, so we used them were we could. But the others didn’t. So you’ll see large blocks of pages being uploaded where the upload date does not match anything else for them, including the year as listed on the comic page’s copyright line (That is the year it was actually created so that year is correct).
• The Discus comments are gone. I was told there might be a way to restore things, but it’s not really on the to-do list right now.
• Filler images were not uploaded. So all those cute pics for Xmas or whatever aren’t there anymore.
• I haven’t set up a way for users to log in yet. I need to find a good user manager plugin for that since wordpress’s native stuff is pretty weak. I’ll get to that as soon as I’m able.

There might be some other problems that we haven’t found or fixed yet. But for now, enjoy the new site.