About Us

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My name is Scott Goldsmith, a happily married father of two and the creator of The Mirrored Realm. That being said in truth it is not as easy as all that. Like most things in life I have taken inspiration from many places, I have worked as an Archaeologist in the Mediterranean and as a weapons engineer in the UK, I now live in Australia and enjoy a pleasant career within the Orthopedic industry. Each of my many and varied occupations has lent something to my imagination and as such The Mirrored Realm itself. However as the title suggests this piece is 'About Us', and it is from this 'Us' that I have taken most of my inspiration.

I am but one of four, and we are...

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'The WoodCiders'

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We four first coalesced in 1994 (Around about then anyway) normally in the Windmill Pub after work. We all lived in or around Croydon in the UK where we drank much, smoked more and generally tried our hardest to get over the shock of being adults.

We were Geeks and to all intense and purposes we still are.

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Some years earlier during my late teens the concept of 'The Mirrored Realm' was something I toyed with late into the night whilst participating in various Role Playing games in the little dubiously acquired counsel flat in Forest Hill that i called home. Whilst pizza cooled on the side board and the little black cat got increasingly more stoned by eating the Marijuana tree growing in my Kitchen, we would slay multitudes of the dark denizens of the various fantasy realms we visited whilst trying desperately to fathom the meaning of the obscure riddles and temporal displacements that accosted us, all so our imaginary characters could go up just that one more level.

These were the heavy Role Play years and it was in the smoke filled living room of those heady days that 'The Mirrored Realm' was born.

Like with most things however the path to the here and now was full of unimaginable turns.  Life, beer, and girls all colluded to put my creation on the very back burner. It never went away, but it did take an awfully long time before i finally picked up a pencil and began working on it again... (Keyboard actually not a pencil).

And so we come to the near present, Wives and children adorn our lives now yet part of us still lives in that pub on the railway bridge, Guinness in hand our childish inner Geeks still revel in those lost days. So it was that for old time sake we formed the WoodCiders, the four lonely characters that would once more set foot to the adventuring path so us old gits could relive a bit of our youth once more. So the adventure began, the role-playing game that spanned the world not only brought the four old friends back together but it also gave renewed vigor to 'The Mirrored Realm', only this time its here to stay. 

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