The Basic Overview
The Kylis Fers Series
I began work on this series years ago, though I did not actually put it to paper until about 3 years ago. The series covers, not in chronological order, the many major events that take place a fictitious world that is supposed to be a fantastic spin-off of our own. Though the actual reality they live in is fantastic, I try to make the characters real, and more or less use the fantastic setting to dramatize their persona and make them evolve faster and better within the context of the narrative.
The one fantastic tenet of this world that makes everything in it so different from ours is the amplified presence of the many energies that permeate our reality (primitive and archetypal type energies): fire and ice (two separate forces that converge with each other), psychic and ki (also converge, psychic being mind, ki being body), electro-magnetic (the force exerted towards or away from atoms), proton, neutron, electron, time-space (anti-matter), occult (a mixture of all the energies but time-space and silver), and silver (a mixture of the first 5 energies). I'll admit, the energy thing sounds primitive and hackneyed, but I tried to imbue it with as much originality as I could. Archetypes are omnipresent after all.
If humans could manipulate these forces, the things we could do would be considerably more drastic than what we can do. The wars would be much more lethal, technology would develop faster, but in many ways, there would be reasons not to develop the massive technological infrastructure that characterizes our world today. In their world, technology is divided into 3 categories: conventional technology (like ours, electronic-based), quantum technology (based off the energies they can manipulate, and that which combines both.
Their world is not much different from ours at a fundamental level. It is marked by wars, by conflict, strife, and disasters, but it has one scar that runs deep through its history that we don't have: a paradigm shift that evolved our ancient world into a world where everything was changed, even the way people understand reality. It destroyed most of the old life, and created new life, and changed everything else along the way, leaving a massive residual amount of the energies that underly and keep reality working. A few creatures did survive the paradigm shift, however, and have become the most powerful people in their world, and the most tormented. They have seen that which no one in our world or theirs has ever seen: a virtual total change in all aspects of reality.
The whole series revolves around multiple characters, some of which die off, and others of which survive through the ages due to the energies that keep them from aging. Some of the protagonists are villains unto themselves, some antagonists are villains unto themselves, and some villains are solely out for their own gain. And in a world where one person can use their own body's power to devastate whole planets, the stakes are higher. And in the end, it may be the protagonists who become the Achilles' Heel of the world as they know it, not the villains.
There is an underlying philosophy to my books (one which I discuss in depth at my Kylis Fers blog page), and I have incorporated multiple aspects of it into many of my various characters. Some of my characters are archetypes, others are unique (or so I'd like think). I will delve into the characters on my next post. Sorry to cut this short (even though it's long), but I don't want to put to much in one entry. Bye.
I began work on this series years ago, though I did not actually put it to paper until about 3 years ago. The series covers, not in chronological order, the many major events that take place a fictitious world that is supposed to be a fantastic spin-off of our own. Though the actual reality they live in is fantastic, I try to make the characters real, and more or less use the fantastic setting to dramatize their persona and make them evolve faster and better within the context of the narrative.
The one fantastic tenet of this world that makes everything in it so different from ours is the amplified presence of the many energies that permeate our reality (primitive and archetypal type energies): fire and ice (two separate forces that converge with each other), psychic and ki (also converge, psychic being mind, ki being body), electro-magnetic (the force exerted towards or away from atoms), proton, neutron, electron, time-space (anti-matter), occult (a mixture of all the energies but time-space and silver), and silver (a mixture of the first 5 energies). I'll admit, the energy thing sounds primitive and hackneyed, but I tried to imbue it with as much originality as I could. Archetypes are omnipresent after all.
If humans could manipulate these forces, the things we could do would be considerably more drastic than what we can do. The wars would be much more lethal, technology would develop faster, but in many ways, there would be reasons not to develop the massive technological infrastructure that characterizes our world today. In their world, technology is divided into 3 categories: conventional technology (like ours, electronic-based), quantum technology (based off the energies they can manipulate, and that which combines both.
Their world is not much different from ours at a fundamental level. It is marked by wars, by conflict, strife, and disasters, but it has one scar that runs deep through its history that we don't have: a paradigm shift that evolved our ancient world into a world where everything was changed, even the way people understand reality. It destroyed most of the old life, and created new life, and changed everything else along the way, leaving a massive residual amount of the energies that underly and keep reality working. A few creatures did survive the paradigm shift, however, and have become the most powerful people in their world, and the most tormented. They have seen that which no one in our world or theirs has ever seen: a virtual total change in all aspects of reality.
The whole series revolves around multiple characters, some of which die off, and others of which survive through the ages due to the energies that keep them from aging. Some of the protagonists are villains unto themselves, some antagonists are villains unto themselves, and some villains are solely out for their own gain. And in a world where one person can use their own body's power to devastate whole planets, the stakes are higher. And in the end, it may be the protagonists who become the Achilles' Heel of the world as they know it, not the villains.
There is an underlying philosophy to my books (one which I discuss in depth at my Kylis Fers blog page), and I have incorporated multiple aspects of it into many of my various characters. Some of my characters are archetypes, others are unique (or so I'd like think). I will delve into the characters on my next post. Sorry to cut this short (even though it's long), but I don't want to put to much in one entry. Bye.
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