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Wizards’ War
I am nearly completed with this manuscript (Hooray!!!).
This is the prequel about sixty years before the events in Quest for the Fallen Star.
Synopsis
The story is
from the point of view of Apprentice A’stoc. His
name is Lamar Westas before acquiring his
wizard-apprentice name A’stoc (in the ring-rune
tongue his name means “seeker”). At its core, this story is about how a
young man, with a desire to become a wizard, finds himself in a world on
the verge of destruction, and he is swept up in the battle against the
forces of evil. He is a naive young man forced to grow up, accept the world
he is given, and make the hardest choices for himself and the magical world
of Infinitera.
The Writing Process
Now, why the
hell would I write about what happened before Quest and not the story after Quest? Well, because as I was writing Quest, I was writing back story to create a realistic feel to
my world of Infinitera. I created a whole series of events that led to
where the characters were today. And when I did that, I realized that there
was a whole other story there. But I stuck to my guns and finished the Quest manuscript, and turned to
drafting Wizards’ War.
My imagination
does not run out, I dream up one thing after another to fit into Infinitera. I love this world! I
used to play a lot in this world. So, it’s turned into a whole alternate
reality for me. I don’t know why I dream up far-fetched fantasy, but I do.
Most probably influenced by all those fantasy books I read as a kid. That’s
part of it. But the other part is that my brain works differently from a
lot of folks I know. I have a crazy imagination, always trying to fit two
weird thoughts together to make some new one. Virtual reality has always
been more fun than the reality I’m stuck with. I think that is why I have
such an addiction to playing computer games like Civilization III and IV. I
like being ruler of worlds of my own design.
Possible Later Books
What this list
below represents is a conglomeration of thought games and notes and a few
drafted chapters of additional things I’d like to write about in Infinitera. And if I have the
opportunity, I’ll write them. If not, then into the black hole when I die.
Hope for Infinitera is the story idea for right after
Quest. It is from Chentelle’s point of view. This
is the one that fans expected to have written. But alas, I have about three
chapters drafted and not much else except for some thoughts and whims.
Hopefully, I can turn this into reality one day.
As for the rest
of the title ideas, they are bits and fritters of thoughts and notes.
- Hope for Infinitera
- King of Tengar
- The Hordeland
War
- The Dragon Lords of Infinitera
- The Shipsages
of Inarr
- The Unmaking of Creation
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