RE: The Gelded One - Fantasy Fiction
This is truly enthralling! I started reading it and couldn't stop. It really pulls you in, the visionary descriptions are amazing. Your powers to share imagination are fantastic, I really felt like I could see this. This has amazing novel/series potential, I would love to know more about the tribe he came from and the world in which this is set. This is a perfect teaser! It opens very strongly, although I must admit I had forgot quite what gelded meant when I clicked on this, so was unprepared for what was to come, but you manage to not gloss over it, and not go into too much detail. The mythology of this world is staggering, you are able to convey a depth of understanding without going into much explanation. It feels like a full and complete belief system that you are just seeing part of. It is a very believable world you have created that I really hope to see more of. If you do post more and I miss it, please let me know! :)
😊 Thank you for the lovely complement in your words @calluna. I am planning to write a novel in this setting soon. I will be looking at traditional publishing for the novel but I think it could be a really useful exercise to write some more of these character studies/origin stories for steemit first. I have about 8 or 9 characters already created in a world with history, political structures, magic system, map and a creation myth. There is a lot of the sub-creation already written from when I was at university. This is part of the reason why the religion/mythological descriptive sections were so vivid, although some of that was that I was in the zone the day that I wrote the section after Arcktel drinks the sun-water and visits deaths realm and the country of the ancestors. However, It is a massive advantage in fantasy fiction when you have a lot of sub-creation completed prior to writing the prose.
It is really gratifying to hear that it was so immediate in the feeling that you got from the story. I really wanted it to be visceral and visual, like you're there as the reader. That I achieved this makes me very happy. Thanks for sharing your impressions calluna, I shall certainly keep you informed of the next installment of any tales from the 3 kingdoms. I will tag you in with a link when a new one is ready in this comment thread 👍 ✍