A Fantasy Prologue
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This is a reading from the Prologue in the first volume of a 4 volume fantasy series I am currently writing.
The prologue has generally gotten good reviews from everyone I've showed it to so I'm hoping you will all enjoy it as well. It is, at this point at least, probably the most refined section of the book so if it's bad then that's definitely on me.
Really sorry for the thumbnail and video background. Unlike with the Rings of Power rewrites I didn't have any images which really fitted the story I was telling and, as you can tell from the rest of the art on this channel, none of us are particularly good at illustration. So yes, this is simply a stock image.
I was thinking of using AI for this, but decided against it because... well... it's ai, and ai is one of the worst things in the world which needs to die immediately.
A few notes:
- All names throughout the series are constructed from languages I myself have created. None of these languages are completed yet (and probably won't be by the time the books are written) and I have often failed to properly account for the way these languages changed from their classical forms to their "modern" forms (in the context of the story). Thus, the names aren't final.
- "Wanoria" or "The Great Kingdom of Wanoria" is a large, central kingdom to the old "Empire"
- "Gadrea" refers to the lands occupied by the "Gadrean" Empire. I have unfortunately gotten into the habit of mispronouncing these. It should be "Gah-drey-ahn" (with a trilled "r") rather than "Gæ-dri-æn" if you care.
- The fortresses' name is spelled "Auellan"
- I use the term "sorcerer" advisedly, despite not being the "traditional" look for a sorcerer (where's the staff, after all!)
If you have any further questions or need clarification on anything else I'm more than happy to expand this.
Awesome love this so much! Remember reading the prologue when you first sent it to me, hearing your read it was super cool!
This is a reading from the Prologue in the first volume of a 4 volume fantasy series I am currently writing.
The prologue has generally gotten good reviews from everyone I've showed it to so I'm hoping you will all enjoy it as well. It is, at this point at least, probably the most refined section of the book so if it's bad then that's definitely on me.
Really sorry for the thumbnail and video background. Unlike with the Rings of Power rewrites I didn't have any images which really fitted the story I was telling and, as you can tell from the rest of the art on this channel, none of us are particularly good at illustration. So yes, this is simply a stock image.
I was thinking of using AI for this, but decided against it because... well... it's ai, and ai is one of the worst things in the world which needs to die immediately.
A few notes:
- All names throughout the series are constructed from languages I myself have created. None of these languages are completed yet (and probably won't be by the time the books are written) and I have often failed to properly account for the way these languages changed from their classical forms to their "modern" forms (in the context of the story). Thus, the names aren't final.
- "Wanoria" or "The Great Kingdom of Wanoria" is a large, central kingdom to the old "Empire"
- "Gadrea" refers to the lands occupied by the "Gadrean" Empire. I have unfortunately gotten into the habit of mispronouncing these. It should be "Gah-drey-ahn" (with a trilled "r") rather than "Gæ-dri-æn" if you care.
- The fortresses' name is spelled "Auellan"
- I use the term "sorcerer" advisedly, despite not being the "traditional" look for a sorcerer (where's the staff, after all!)
If you have any further questions or need clarification on anything else I'm more than happy to expand this.
Nicely written beginning to the story. It was a good choice to not immediately reveal who the Jade Sorcerer is or for what reasons he was imprisoned; maybe that's an obvious point but a lesser work would fill a prologue with an overabundance of exposition and lore dumps which could really bog down the pacing and take away from the mystery and horror surrounding him.
Thank you.
I do think it's fair to say that if the Sorcerer's presence doesn't terrify the reader each time he appears then I've done something wrong. At the very least I've tried to keep that through the first book.