Little bit of writing
When I was sorting through my piles of notebooks and folders, I came upon one entirely devoted to my first attempt at fantasy titled Highborn. I might have talked about it earlier but here's a quick run down: conceived roughly mid to late 90s, it followed the story of a young man named Oberon, who was the last of a magical race known as highborn. The story originally took place on Uranus (I was heavily influenced by Sailor Moon so the concept of Uranus being a gas giant didn't mean diddly squat XD), which by then was mostly populated by non-magical people I dubbed Scientists. According to in-story lore, all highborn considered Uranus' moon, Miranda, as their homeworld. I wrote up a myth explaining this; when I re-read it I was pretty impressed by the idea, as well as the little nods to Roman and Greek mythos. Have a read!
Ages ago, Uranus lived alone on the far side of the universe. For many years he longed for company when, one day, his gravity caught a wandering moon named Miranda. He fell in love with her instantly, though she did not love him initially. But her own loneliness consumed her and she went to his arms willingly. Four new moons came to be in their union: Ariel, Titania, Umbriel and Oberon. Miranda's loneliness passed, for she had children to love and teach. Years passed, and Miranda eventually tired of Uranus. She had fallen in love with Oberon, her eldest and most favored son. Jealousy caused Uranus to act harshly: he banished Miranda's four children to the outer reaches of his orbit, casting Oberon out the farthest. Miranda's despair was so great she never spoke again. She wept instead, covering Uranus' surface with icy tears for a entire year. This soon came to be known as ice winter. It is said that the children she would have had with Oberon came to life in these tears, bringing forth the rise of the highborn.
But Uranus would not tolerate them. In turn he created another race, which set out to hunt down every highborn. Those that were not captured or slain fled to the side of Uranus facing Miranda, leaving the rest of the planet to the others, whom they had taken to calling Scientists for their technological know-how. Over the centuries, both races discovered evidence of a prophecy concerning a highborn named Oberon; he would succeed in uniting the races only through the ultimate sacrifice, thus restoring Miranda and Oberon's love, while ensuring that Uranus never part them again.
Everything I have on this particular story is handwritten, and scattered among small notebooks and even paper towels. Hey, we writers always find a way. ;p I doubt there is much of a future for Oberon but you never know with my muse. She's quite fickle. XD
Ages ago, Uranus lived alone on the far side of the universe. For many years he longed for company when, one day, his gravity caught a wandering moon named Miranda. He fell in love with her instantly, though she did not love him initially. But her own loneliness consumed her and she went to his arms willingly. Four new moons came to be in their union: Ariel, Titania, Umbriel and Oberon. Miranda's loneliness passed, for she had children to love and teach. Years passed, and Miranda eventually tired of Uranus. She had fallen in love with Oberon, her eldest and most favored son. Jealousy caused Uranus to act harshly: he banished Miranda's four children to the outer reaches of his orbit, casting Oberon out the farthest. Miranda's despair was so great she never spoke again. She wept instead, covering Uranus' surface with icy tears for a entire year. This soon came to be known as ice winter. It is said that the children she would have had with Oberon came to life in these tears, bringing forth the rise of the highborn.
But Uranus would not tolerate them. In turn he created another race, which set out to hunt down every highborn. Those that were not captured or slain fled to the side of Uranus facing Miranda, leaving the rest of the planet to the others, whom they had taken to calling Scientists for their technological know-how. Over the centuries, both races discovered evidence of a prophecy concerning a highborn named Oberon; he would succeed in uniting the races only through the ultimate sacrifice, thus restoring Miranda and Oberon's love, while ensuring that Uranus never part them again.
Everything I have on this particular story is handwritten, and scattered among small notebooks and even paper towels. Hey, we writers always find a way. ;p I doubt there is much of a future for Oberon but you never know with my muse. She's quite fickle. XD