CONCEIVED IN HIS NAME: SHADOW GENESIS: INCEPTION EXCERPT [Revised]

"I wanted Shadow Genesis to have a bit of a 'Beginning Feel' as to how the realm of Shadara, originally Shadowrealm in the first novel, was created. Being one raised under multiple spiritual and religious beliefs, I turned to Genesis I for inspiration. I am spiritual by default, but I also respect others sense of faith."

Sometime back (this old blog post) I revealed the prologue to 'Shadow Genesis: Inception' as a means to further explain my aim to relate the title and its events with the creation of Shadara itself and what is to come through the series. Pulling from the 'Greatest Book of all books', I discovered how much my work clicks with Genesis I in the bible, and how the creator brought our world into existence. What better way than telling the world through others?

Take Elder Scrolls for example. In game books provide various lore written by other entities in the world of Nirn for the player to discover and immerse themselves in. The player gets a better feel for the Elder Scrolls universe and its 'life'... catch my drift without further gamer elaboration?

Without further explanation, check out my newly revised opening to Inception. I took the 'Prologue' tag off (after much contemplation and advice from others) and made it an nice excerpt written by one of Shadara's inhabitants.

Conceived in His Name

From Darkness to light, births first twilight. It breaks, shimmers, to scatter endless brilliance. To conceive twilight’s dark, the infinite of stars. Betwixt its cradle luster, our home is born.

By breath of its maker, who roams still its watery wake, he deems his creation forever in essence, to live endless amidst its cradle of stars.

He blankets the night sky with Eos veil, and from his finger, the light of Luna. The maker saw his work with please, and he divides Luna from eternal night. Where night stirs beneath Luna’s spark, darkness stirs even, while Luna’s light breaks darkness to dawn.

The maker deems this so with please, then parts its watery seas, and within its airy gap arise land. The maker molds and erects this land; its waters recede and gather. Now land exists with sea, and the maker is pleased. He waves his hand across barren land, sprout from voiceless call. In comes the flora of life.

Our home sprouts vegetation, from the smallest of plants to the greatest of trees. All bestowed by the will of its maker, who steadies his work with please.

Then the maker waves his hand once more, and from flora comes our world’s wilds, creatures of land, sky, and sea. The maker saw this with please, but his creation respires incomplete.

From the core of his being, the maker’s flesh, the essence of life, is harvest. He waves his hand once more, and the flesh of his being seeds our home. Flesh becomes sentient, and with the wild and its creatures lives the first of his image. The maker saw this with please, and so the firsts shall rule over all creatures of land, sky, and sea.

The firsts shall soften our home with great diversity, to swell great and plenty. As the maker saw this too with please, he brings forth his last creations, the heart of the world, and its kin.

From the realm’s heart surface the true kind, kindred of the crux and overseers of our home and all that is existing. He gives them a name, “Elementai,” and all of the names of the firsts who now roam. He names our world’s crux after his own, and all that is edible theirs to consume.

Then the maker said to them. “I, Umbra Divinius of Dark, give you the world, the beloved nightrealm of Shadara, made in my image, and forever in darks twilight. Embrace its creation, and rule its eternal course. Know its creatures, the mass of Shadaran kind, and guard its crux that beats beneath its earth, for it is the reason of your existence, the life core of all that is my creation. Know the passage of time, guided by night’s Luna, and all its periods and recess.”

The elementai and the firsts of Shadaran kind follow his words, and with the last of his breath, he ignites the world. From the center of its core light rises and lives. Kindling every plant, stone, and creature of chosen.

The realm of Shadara illumes with life, as light and dark lives in harmony. The maker saw his creation complete, while into the twilight’s dark he ebbs with please.

-Ty’Ka Tikhal

(Shadara’s Genesis: First Creed)

Though Shadow Genesis Volume One: Preludes of War is out... and been out since 2010, I still suggest checking it out, as well as staying up to date on the coming of its reboot. I have been taking a good break before working on its 3rd draft while also checking out different publishing options both traditional and indie. Leaning forward towards Book Baby for that one, but then there is this interesting site called JukePop I have discovered through a fellow author name Joan Albright. I recommend checking her out!


And now I go back to note taking without OneNote, working with Evernote, and getting my gamer fix on... among other things.

Mark of Umbra | Khan Dynasty

 

SHADOW GENESIS | INCEPTION - PART ONE PREVIEW

I… must… have… Dragon Age!

After watching this footage right here, I swear, I get that strong need to play… but like everyone else, I must wait until October for Dragon Age III: Inquisition.

By then, I should have my Ps4.

Meanwhile, been rebuilding Part I intro to SG:I. Apologies for not showing this one before, and just skipping to Part II’s intro preview… but hey, I did show the Prologue of Umbra Divinius of Dark and how he creates Shadara. Yeah… a straight ‘Genesis I’… sort of.

My novel is not Shadow Genesis for nothing, so I had to make it ‘work’. To make up for that ‘skipperoo’ I present Part I preview of SG:I, introducing Malice herself… and her ‘cute insomnia’.

PART I

A tiring sky calms its tears, easing the rain away for a coming siesta. In its wake, a lively luna above rests to a darkening light above a shroud of colorful aurorae, Eos Veil, tapering to a faint shining spread. A lazy mass of winking stars mingle in its spread, stars that could shine no brighter behind its tiresome hues. Captivating, for anyone bound by land can easily lose themselves in a marvel upon the millions upon millions of stars sprawled along its dark. It is to say, that the uncountable populace living in the world’s largest city more than likely failed to lift their heads. The busy streets of Centra, the capital city of Darkgear Prime, is notorious for its mesmeric sights, more so than what a stargazer would claim far best than the typical urbane of city life.

The central city’s popularity stems from the very heart of its outstanding form, housing Shadara realm’s great sovereignty, the Khan Dynasty.

The Khans retained a rigid declaration over the realm for many eras. History details an aggressive start to power, and like any rise to such boundless hegemony, comes the many falls and twisted perversions staining ones hands in irrefutable transgression. As these series of events emerge long before the coming of Shadara’s new crown, dark and ruthless than the now, each bit of indiscretion bears heavy and irksome in weight upon her shoulders. Last of her family bloodline, Sovereign Malice La’Shade Khan has a lot to account for. Her birthright is more than just sitting on a throne she rarely occupies, and more than just wearing a crown that she hardly fashions herself with. In her opinion, she did not care for material holdings notating her title, for those and more did not make her a world queen, but it is what she does in actions far greater than words. That alone shows how determined and entrusting she has become, believing in the words of those held dear. Their faith in her tenet gives her strength, including the support of her people quiescent beneath her far below in the massive city of lights.

She stood there bare foot over-viewing Centra’s majestic expanse, as far as her beautiful lavender eyes can see, and she can see to the ends of the city’s great gates tall and without a doubt teeming with her faithful guard. The soft falling rain no more, she did not mind the wet surface of her royal terrace. In fact, she welcomes it as few lasting droplets come shy of damping her deep lavender hair and rich mocha skin, including a whispering breeze playing her simple gown to dance in a tiny sway of innocence. Nice to her skin, enough to sooth her habitual thoughts on events then and now. Including one such musing currently claiming her mind in a frenzy of intense contemplation.

She could not sleep because of it, strangely enough.

Her studies complete with books open and stack upon a table inside, and her bed showing telltale signs of previous unstill stir. It is apparent she was once at rest before succumbing to a city trance and gaze, but something for sure haunts her awake.

She feels the answers to her persistent distress will come soon enough.

  

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Catch Ya' Next Week!

SG:I | INCEPTION (Book Description Reveal)

Looks like YEET goes good with everything...
(Listening to his lil' cousin Jason add "YEET" to sea shanty songs on Assassin's Creed: Black Flag)

What is YEET? Something that happens every year... a new trend that's what. Find it funny, sounds like a plant, and very entertaining... when applied correctly on my end for foolery-sake.

... until my cousin over here playing on the Ps3 decides to add YEET at the end of sea shanty verses. It got weird from then on out. HA!

Just what will these people come up with next? It's a new discovery with each new generation.

To not derail from the main subject at hand (blasted catchy song), I have decided to show off the book info to the SG:V1 reboot and book cover (once again) that I will be using once ready. I ‘may’ (highly possible) be gunning this book to eBook meaning those with the ole Kindles and Nooks and so forth will catch this quick, but given how BookBaby is with their services, given the chance I will hardcopy it. Times are tough on my end ($ not all that great but I manage – not complaining) and from what I am seeing, BookBaby will work out fine.

 SHADOW GENESIS: INCEPTION

SG:I - Coming Soon

 

Now it is up to her—unfortunately so—to right these wrongs, to face a past refusing to die.

Born in a burden of high expectations, the weight of the past, present, and future rests on the shoulders of Shadara realm’s sovereign Malice La’Shade Khan. Past transgressions refuse to die in the minds of those intolerant to her new ideals, while old evils thought suppressed gradually disturb her hand of serenity. All carefully woven by the hands of an otherworldly evil, Hellion the Damned Queen, who seeks compensation for former misdeeds that now Malice is force to endure.

With the fate of Shadara in her hands, she must not succumb to the wickedness of Hellion’s relentless cabal. One critical question remains. Is Malice, the first female sovereign, strong and wise enough to stop it?

Welcome to Shadara, and its prefaces of war. Shadow Genesis: Inception is the reboot of Shadow Genesis Volume 1: Preludes of War. A true retelling of an epic tale, the way it should be told.