Now that I've finished serialising chapter extracts from The Ironwood Staff on Subscribestar, I'm serialising some of the backstory to the two books. This stuff was written down longhand all in a rush over the course of a few days, once I'd heard Mike Oldfied's Music of the Spheres. I have absolutely no clue how or why it sparked that in me, but I am a long-standing Oldfield fan, since my early 20s.
We had our origin the Place of Awakening, before the Sun and Moon. There are none now who remember it, the chances of the World have taken them all.
My grandfather’s grandfather lived in the ages of starlight. He remembered the Place, and how he and so many others fled at the coming of a being of light and power. Some stayed, and none know what became of them.
Of those who escaped, many were lost. There were shadows beyond the hills of the Place, and they came for the eladi in the dark. It was a time of terror, when one heard screams and pleading, sometimes cut short, sometimes the screaming and weeping would fade as the eladi were taken away. There were children then who lost their parents as they lay hidden, shaking in terror. As they lay in the bush, too scared even to breathe, Father Dorwin appeared, seeking the scatterlings. He had fled with them, but was strong and agile enough to fight off the nameless things that sewed the dark into a trap, and cut through it all. Father Dorwin saved so many in that time.
It may have been that he wished to return to the Place; but it was surrounded by forest, haunted by the Things In The Dark, but he perceived them and took them south.
Read the whole thing here. I'm having work done on a second edition as well, which should hopefully make the book more marketable and easier to read.
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