Ammet Mouler
13 Mar 12 - 22:28
So...I've seen a lot of ideas for fanmade 'Chapter One"s on the site, so why don't we follow through with it?
I thought long an hard about the central theme of the book. It was always an object or idea, always titular too. So, my historical artifact is the Gordian Knot.
The Knot was a Greek myth, involving an unbreakable knot of rope as a prayer for making a simple traveler king. Then came Alexander the Great, who was the first to solve the Knot...by slicing it in half. And so, we reach the central theme of a possible book.
I imagine the Gordian Knot as a rope shaped like a three-way Venn Diagram. Now, the key theme is that the Knot is an idea, not a thing. One "loop" of the knot is our world. Another "loop" is the Other Place, and the third is the seven planes, where the worlds cross, somewhat. Summoning has always followed a path: OP >> Planes >> World, but Ptolemy's Gate reversed the cycle.
Anyways, that was the central theme (like the Amulet, the Eye, or the Gate), and from there a story can be built. Personally, I like the idea of it being a century after Nathaniel, and English magicians, who were banned from being magicians, are still practicing summonings in secret. This keeps with realistic magician personalities. One particular sect of these magicians wants control of the Gordian Knot, but one of the apprentices overhears and etc. etc. Bart makes his appearance.
Thoughts?
I thought long an hard about the central theme of the book. It was always an object or idea, always titular too. So, my historical artifact is the Gordian Knot.
The Knot was a Greek myth, involving an unbreakable knot of rope as a prayer for making a simple traveler king. Then came Alexander the Great, who was the first to solve the Knot...by slicing it in half. And so, we reach the central theme of a possible book.
I imagine the Gordian Knot as a rope shaped like a three-way Venn Diagram. Now, the key theme is that the Knot is an idea, not a thing. One "loop" of the knot is our world. Another "loop" is the Other Place, and the third is the seven planes, where the worlds cross, somewhat. Summoning has always followed a path: OP >> Planes >> World, but Ptolemy's Gate reversed the cycle.
Anyways, that was the central theme (like the Amulet, the Eye, or the Gate), and from there a story can be built. Personally, I like the idea of it being a century after Nathaniel, and English magicians, who were banned from being magicians, are still practicing summonings in secret. This keeps with realistic magician personalities. One particular sect of these magicians wants control of the Gordian Knot, but one of the apprentices overhears and etc. etc. Bart makes his appearance.
Thoughts?
A dozen more questions occurred to me*.
*Not to mention 22 possible solutions to each one, 16 resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, 8 abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, 2 axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
*Not to mention 22 possible solutions to each one, 16 resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, 8 abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, 2 axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
