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    Cathy replied to the topic Audio Cinema in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago

    Good morning Cathy! I so enjoy hearing your thoughts and reading your insights.  You have such a clear perception that you amaze me and I always look forward to reading what you say. Thank you for responding to this section as well.  You are correct that there are several vagueries in this “Prologue” but there are deliberate reasons for them.

    Thank you so much! I grew up studying a lot of writing analysis and rhetoric courses for school so it’s…XD I really enjoyed listening to your prologue! I think really the only thing that made it seem too vague were how spaced out the samples were; reading the prologue all at once definitely would have it flow much more naturally and as a novel that would be how most people read it 😉

    The Dust Dragon is only one of the three total “Dragons” occupying the Mid-World, though the other one, A Leviathan (Job 41 & Isaiah 27:1), was killed in the prior failed quest that the MC (later called O’Brian) is called back to lead.  The earliest Dragon to enter the Mid-World is trapped and “sleeping” in the High Mountain range, a formidable and imposing wall of jagged stone towering to the sky. Only “the Ancients” of the Mid-World know of its existence and that it attempted to steal the massive golden Dominion Crown once atop The Marker Stone, from which the three virtue stones fell out of their settings as it attempted to fly off and ascend the crest of the massive Stone Walls, clutching its prized possession.

    (Ha I knew I wasn’t the only one caught on the dragons in Job! I firmly argue with anyone willing to argue that dragons existed and we call them dinosaurs but they were dragons and who knows but they really did breath fire! Scientists can’t disprove it with skeletons!!!)
    I love the worldbuilding and I can’t wait to meet all your interesting creatures in-depth!

    here also is a sinister connection between what Noadiah actually is (an elemental wind spirit [See Colossians 2:8 NET version]) and the way she gets a body by cooperating with a “dragon” who pulverizes rock and eats “dust”.  A saliva/plasma substance that encapsulates and incorporates both human blood and the rock and dust of the land into a golem form which shifts and takes on the visual aspect of the DNA characteristics of the person whose blood was taken to form it, but it lacks a soul and can only be animated by an elemental wind spirit to give it the semblance of life, if not the truth of it.

    This particularly I can’t wait to see more of, it sounds like it can really drive both the plot and the themes forward used well.

    As to your question about the Virtue stones, even though others believe differently (even the MC for a long time), these stones have no internal power of themselves. They are focusing stones that channel effects of supernatural power through the yielded Surface Worlder who bears them, only when the person yields to their calling by The One True God who equips them to do what must be done in pursuit of that calling.  The bearer cannot use them to conjure power or work these to serve their own selfish ends.  These only serve and channel the divine authority of The One who directs His instruments to surrender to His Will. God does not lend His power to mortal men to serve themselves, but does work supernaturally through them when yield to Him and they ask according to His Will. (Matt. 18:19, John 5:20-21, John 14:13-14, 15:7 & 1 John 5:14)

    Ah, I’ve read several novels that try that technique. It’s a rather difficult one to handle without seeming contrived or unnatural, it takes a lot of prayer and discerning to not simply tag it on the end of a character arc or a plot point to keep things challenging but then magically fix it. Especially as it is the fantasy equivalent to real miracles and we can’t apply any “rules” to miracles really it’s so beyond. I do have something similar in my book though XD and it’ll be great seeing how you handle it!

    Look up the term “quickening” in the Scripture, and you will see it is associated with miraculous accounts in both the OT and the NT.

    Oh yes! It also refers to the first movements in the womb so it’s such a beautiful, meaningful term! Are there any particular verses you have in mind I can look up there? I believe that term was used in Genesis at the creation…

     

    @joelle-stone
    OH I KNOW THAT PROMPT!! That’s beautiful, I love how you personified the wind for that theme, it’s so warm and sweet to read! Breaking up the paragraphs with her thoughts really accents…no wait, that could be either a boy or a girl and that makes it even more angelic. It’s like a moment seeing through a guardian angel’s perspective, also like a continuation of the end of the Little Mermaid (the original shortstory not the movie. That I’ve never seen. XD). That’s so layered!

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