I've lost so much sleep, screwed up my sleep hours and apparently I have started to lose weight since I began turning the countless scraps of paper, pieces and folders into a rough and crude storyline. Clear enough signs that I am going down the same route as my six year obsession (and still do) love of Final Fantasy XI which I am currently blaming this story on in fact. Hurray for games corrupting my mind enough to envision fantasy worlds in detail so great that I actually cry with joy, sadness and frustration about what I see and could never draw. If anyone asks me why I write, I sure am prepared with an answer. Don't ya think?
Carrying on, to describe Gaea is to describe a magicless world utterly consumed in a single glorious religion placing the Goddess Vale as the dictator of all life. Unbeknownst to all, but the highest nobility, the Cardinals which act as spiritual advisers are more then just the descendants of Vale, they are the tools upon which peace is maintained. Exceptions exist for those in places of greater importance, culture clashes and societal rule, but they are the embodiment of her will.
Those descended from Vale possess power and control of their bodies far beyond 'human'. Longevity and one key trait makes itself known in these chosen people, (great intelligence, physical strength, spiritual sense). Purest bloods halt aging in youth, 2nd+ Cardinals in childhood and Keepers at 60-65, should they live that long. This exception is widely known and becomes the reason for people rallying under these chosen. It would be hard to parallel their real world counterparts, but given the same situation Cardinal Wentz would be similar to Peter, Aphonia to Caesar, Hilga to Stalin while those still far superior such as Media, Vale and Marja take the place of deities, and are worshiped as such.
A world devoid of conflict becomes stagnant. Under this principal predators seek to create chaos and war, empowering the people and enacting change. Three decades of peace is about to end without a cause, or reason other then sin.
YWS Pieces - Chapter Title - Info and is it up!?
Prologue - Prologue Revision 2 - Currently being rewritten as story progresses - Up!
Chapter 01 - Aphonia Part 1 - Introducing Aphonia, Cardinal Wentz, Brother Raye- UP!
Chapter 02 - Aphonia Part 2 - UP!
Chapter 03 - Aphonia Part 3 - UP
Chapter 04 - Aphonia Part 4 UP!
Chapter 05 - Aphonia Part 5 UP!
Chapter 06 - Bloodsport Part 1 - Introducing Raquil, Hilga, Kek, Griff. Gonna be rated R, kiddies! UP!
Chapter 07 - Bloodsport Part 2 UP!
Chapter 08 - Bloodsport Part 3 UP!
Chapter 09 - Bloodsport Part 4 UP!
Chapter 10 - Encounter in the Forest Part 1Up!
Chapter 11 - Encounter in the Forest Part 2 UP!
Chapter 12 - Media UP!
Chapter 13 - Cardinal Cein Part 1 UP!
Chapter 14 - Cardinal Cein Part 2 UP!
Chapter 15 - Cardinal Cein Part 3 UP!
Chapter 16 - Gyudin Part 1 UP!
Chapter 17 - Gyudin Part 2 UP!
Chapter 18 - Saverz Up!
Chapter 19 - Cenal Up!
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Frux is an experimental type of fiction I am writing. I wanted to combine a lot of my political and social workings with a new spin and not having the issue of names or places to weigh me down. Being direct and taking the all-knowing historical narrative, the work currently details the exploits of King Silver Wolvenglory the Sixth from the time of his father's death, ascension and years upon the throne.
It is my first attempt at connecting bloodlines across lands and stretching back 5 or more generations in an effort to capture the delicate order and corruption of aristocrat families, or in this case, the court of a king.
Since their is a large cast of characters, I have the forgone conclusion that the reader is to grasp from the words any appearance of the figure and let their actions, thoughts and reservations form the character unless otherwise a description is necessary. Not a 'talking head' phenomenon because the actual dialogue exists in a past tense in which the reader already is aware of what happens, but how and why becomes the stage upon which the story is biased on.
For example in the first chapter the reader already knows Wolvenglory the Sixth becomes king, but the journey and trials he experiences is meant to be done in such a way that it maintains the reader's attention instead of using conventional foreshadowing and other writing tools to string out the work with a great deal of filler and senseless development or scenes.
Think of a WWII documentary, or series. A good one is Hitler's bodyguard which shows on the military channel. Hitler had over 40 attempts on his life, and they all ended in failure. Series over right? No, who tried to kill him, what was the plot and how he survived are all the more amazing that the viewer understands why the most hated man in the world thought himself to be under the power of divine protection! We know the ending, but the instances leading up to it are stranger then fiction and a dozen times more shocking then what most people actually believe. I want the same sense of wonder and unique take in my writing as what that documentary created.
That is why, Frux is an experimental fiction, different from anything I have ever read and probably ever will. Yet, it draws me and seems to write itself with beauty and style I cannot obtain from traditional third person omniscient narrative and not the stream-of-consciousness narrative. More akin to an epistolary narrative the work breaks off and becomes something for which I do not have a word for.
The Wise King of the Frozen North Part 1 - Up.
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