Anyone here good with Latin Translations, or have a decent resource they could recommend? I'm working on a project and wanted to use a Latin title for it.

The title is "Death of Shadows"

Any help is appreciated

A few months ago, I wrote a thread up here asking for advice about establishing the rules of a supernatural world in a contemporary setting. After alot of thinking, I actually came up with some. I would like your opinions/questions on them just so I can iron them out.

Now, the story revolves around a side-type of human called "Alts". This race has been around as long as man and have been revered literally as gods and monsters, depending on the who and where. In the beginning, they were the megalomaniacal gods, like Cronus and the Titans, the Aztec gods who demanded people be flayed alive, the warring tribes of africa and the Americas being lead by different shamans and medicine men and the works. After The Flood (Noah's Flood for you western religions), the Alts were diminished, and their power became more localized, and their influence on normal people lessened

After the Flood, the Alts established these four rules in order to survive. Working backwards, they are:

   The fourth law is the Law of the Gate. An Alt cannot reverse the flow of life. Everything has it’s time and then must die and go back through the Gate.
   The third law is the Law of the Collar. An Alt cannot, through their power, bind another human being, living or dead. Free Will is the gift of all mankind.
   The second law is the Law of the Blade. An Alt cannot, through their power, kill another human being, except in a formal Challenge.
   And the First Law: The Law of The Shadows. Normal Humans can never know of our existence.
All other laws are waived if The First Law is threatened.

Any questions or comments are appreciated.

This one goes out to the Fantasy Writers, but if you have some imput, I ain't gonna stop you.

I'm working on a novel, I've got all my characters, all my plot points down and I pretty sure I know how the story is going to end (it could go a different direction between now and then)

One of the more major problems I'm having at this moment is establishing a set list of rules for the characters in the world to adhere to.

Let me explain. The story is an urban fantasy set in New York City. The premise is that most of the legends, myths and fables that have been collected over the ages are not just legends and myths and fables. They existed, in one form or another. The story features the decendants and practitioners of those legends, including Mages and Psychics of different flavors, Trolls, theriomorph's, people who are the living embodiment of the natural elements and so on and so forth.

Here's the question that I've been meaning to ask: It's the modern day, what has kept these people from outwardly using their powers and putting the rest of humanity under their boot.

Now I do have a skeleton law, mostly based around the myth of the Furies. That if one of these empowered humans (I refer to them as Alts) kills another person (Whether Alt or Human) using their powers, then they will be struck down dead, through one means or another. This is in effect unless under the terms of a formal challenge or declaration of war between one entity or another.

So I have that skeleton going on, but I want to flesh it out a bit more. Any suggestions or input is greatly appreciated.

- Craig

Hey guys, I've been working on this novel for a while now, and as a practice I've been writing short stories that help develop my main character and the world around him.

In one of the stories I write about Rape (both sexual and mental) and the overlying choices that the victims has afterwards, to either let it consume them or to use the pain inflicted on them as a source of strength.

Now, I've written about alot of the things my age group (college age) is known for, drinking, drugs, and morals as strong as kleenex in a monsoon. But this is by far the darkest I've delved.

My question is, have you ever written on a controversial topic? What was your experience writing it? Of people Reading it?