The Gelded One - Fantasy Fiction
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7 years ago in #fiction by raj808 (71)
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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 👍 ✍
Epic!
You really capture the majestic tone of the Fantasy genre:
The words come to me, a dream from a yesterday that I cannot quite reach. Then it returns in a flash, the tribes’ folk singing of Malevernine, the horse of the heavens, lifting us from death’s embrace to the halls of our ancestors.
Thanks @carolkean and also for your help workshopping this story :) I feel really happy with the way it turned out. I think it is a solid origin story, to launch a longer fiction from. In fact I am planning to write a novel in this setting soon. I am very much of the mind that if I do that I want to try and look at traditional publishing first. However, I think it could be a really useful thing 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.
Anyway, I shall keep these forays in to the duel worlds of the three kingdoms and Elintarn coming. That's a teaser for things to come ;-)
I am stone and I will not weather. I am stone and I will not weather.
I repeat in my head the words of the warrior, taught on the fields of the dead before the Shelief leaves are consumed.
(More great lines! So many many great lines!)
😊 Thank you for the lovely complement.
You have a flair for imaginative lines.
You create images in my mind..
And bare thoughts in my heart.
"Did she really see him as being the gallant warrior that he really is.....?"
Wholesome story. Beautiful lines.
Write on!!
I don't have the skillz to compose a reply worthy of your art, so I'm just going to look you in the eye and give you a silent nod :)
Thanks for sharing that.
Ha ha @bobaphet. Sometimes a nod is as good as a wink to a blind man 😉 But seriously, nice one for checking out my story. I'm glad you enjoyed it
Great post keep it up
Thanks @yashu
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This was riveting and very easy to read. What amazing talent you have.
Thanks @bhop42moro for checking out my story. I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊
I read this all the way through without stopping!! I don't know if I could have stopped if I wanted to!!!!!!!!!!!
You have written a wondrous, horrendous, beautiful, heart stopping, heart pounding, story!!!!!!!!
Bravo!!! and WOOOOOOOOT!
I am in AWE of what I just read!!
Thank YOU so much for keeping your word and doing something that I know made you feel uncomfortable...........
I would never have seen your story this week.......it's been the week from Hell here.........so I Thank YOU so much for letting me know you published this!!! and I will ask again if you do carry on with him please please let me know. Sorry for placing such a burden on you but I know myself and I would miss it without a reminder and I REALLY don't want to!!
Thank YOU again for this story!!!!!!!!!! You took me far, far away!!!
That's ok @snook I don't mind popping a reminder up just as long as I'm sure that the person really wants me too :-) it's my steemit etiquette kicking in lol. It isn't a burden, honestly. I'm so glad you enjoyed this character and his story. There is much more to come from him, I have plans for an epic vendetta/rivalry between the Wizard Ailentor and the tribesman Arcktel. I shall be joining all the freewriters this weekend too, as I usually do. I Hope things get a bit less hectic for you soon. Take care :-)
THE IMAGES BROUGHT THE STORY TO LIFE....LOVELY PIECE
HOPE OTHERS LEARN FROM THIS AS MUCH AS I HAVE