I think I’m getting some of my mental clarity back. The ideas for the
sci-fi/fantasy/horror novel, screenplay, or idea for an action RPG, that I’ve been
wanting to write are coming together, at least the beginning of it. The
title of the epic, at least for now: Dies Irae. It’s the story that Symphony No. 1 is being based on.
It takes place in the future, beginning in the year 2110. A global federal republic, which once enjoyed peace and prosperity never enjoyed before, had fallen into chaos. Technology once used for the betterment of mankind was once again being used to kill one another. The old order would be succeeded by a world empire to rule with an iron hand.
The survivors of a long-lost civilization of “elves”, which was destroyed in 9600 BC by its own hubris and embrace of dark magic, would emerge from isolated villages in the Caucasus to warn the world not to make the same mistakes. It had been believed that the élites who came to rule the world were dabbling in the same arcane arts, even seeking the power to raise the dead. A mutant race of “orcs” (to use another Tolkienian term) had already been developed as supersoldiers, until they rebelled against their masters, many being imprisoned in Antarctica.
There are seven main protagonists so far (likely more, eventually), with the first to appear being a Marine commando named Joe Cohen, sent on a mission to the “Ultramax” prison in Antarctica to quell a riot. (The piece «Un jour dans l’enfer» is the background music for this scene.)
I also need to develop at least two constructed languages for this story: a language for the “elves” called T’aq (or Tech), and an international auxiliary language or “global pidgin”, currently codenamed “Language P”. Both of these I have been working on for many years, but not continuously.
More on this later, as it all continues to be developed in my brain. So far, I have most of the basic outline of the first volume of the trilogy, the increasing number of heroes’ trek from Antarctica to Australia and China, through India and Russia, to Istanbul, the future world capital.
It takes place in the future, beginning in the year 2110. A global federal republic, which once enjoyed peace and prosperity never enjoyed before, had fallen into chaos. Technology once used for the betterment of mankind was once again being used to kill one another. The old order would be succeeded by a world empire to rule with an iron hand.
The survivors of a long-lost civilization of “elves”, which was destroyed in 9600 BC by its own hubris and embrace of dark magic, would emerge from isolated villages in the Caucasus to warn the world not to make the same mistakes. It had been believed that the élites who came to rule the world were dabbling in the same arcane arts, even seeking the power to raise the dead. A mutant race of “orcs” (to use another Tolkienian term) had already been developed as supersoldiers, until they rebelled against their masters, many being imprisoned in Antarctica.
There are seven main protagonists so far (likely more, eventually), with the first to appear being a Marine commando named Joe Cohen, sent on a mission to the “Ultramax” prison in Antarctica to quell a riot. (The piece «Un jour dans l’enfer» is the background music for this scene.)
I also need to develop at least two constructed languages for this story: a language for the “elves” called T’aq (or Tech), and an international auxiliary language or “global pidgin”, currently codenamed “Language P”. Both of these I have been working on for many years, but not continuously.
More on this later, as it all continues to be developed in my brain. So far, I have most of the basic outline of the first volume of the trilogy, the increasing number of heroes’ trek from Antarctica to Australia and China, through India and Russia, to Istanbul, the future world capital.
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