A porous, patchwork reality -- where rice grows in blood-red paddies, where princesses romance their spears, where it is a bad idea to mispronounce a crocodile’s name.
A THOUSAND THOUSAND ISLANDS is a series of zines, designed for use in fantasy adventure tabletop RPGs. Ongoing since 2017, this project draws from the overlapping material cultures, lived stories, and mythistories of that region of the world variously called Indochina, Suvarnabhumi, and the Nusantara -- Southeast Asia.
"And so the old kingdom was punished, and so the old kingdom fell.
Its conquerors have rebuilt no walls, no bridges. Only this gateway: two grand, gaping maws, rising from the lake. Marking the entrance to Mr-Kr-Gr, the Death-rolled Kingdom, the Dismembered Land, who the common folk call Place of Crocodiles.
Be welcome. Watch for shapes lurking in the water."
Text by Zedeck Siew. Illustrations by Mun Kao.
A Thousand Thousand Islands — in a single bundle.
