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A phenomenal thing happened yesterday: I finished the first of three parts for, what
I hope, will be my first novel. It is a
fantasy about a young man and his rite of passage, and the war that happens for
his soul between the holy Colluchians and the evil Aenocyons.
Gordie is a young man sent on the Ramble, the generations-old journey to adulthood for the Colluchians. The wisefolk imparted tremendous wisdom to him before his journey, hoping that this would keep him from straying away. They have hope that he will be the leader who would bring peace and joy to the Commonwealth. He was on a path to gain mastery of great power, as willed for him by the deity Colluch. But Gordie swears off his god and places himself at the center of his own world.
During his subsequent exile, he is pursued by the evil
Ayersi, the ugliest man from the distant city of Aenocyon. As he escapes, he is taken under the
protection of three poets, who point Gordie to the road of redemption.
Overseen by the ancient Crag the Crow, this story is a
philosophy of life. Pain, suffering,
forgiveness, redemption after a heinous fall.
These are timeless existential lessons for a mad modern world.
