PART.2 - JOURNEY OF WRITING BOOK.6 - CREATE DEEPER WORLDS - (TCE+012)

I love when stories are things you can explore. Connections you can trace down into the depths. If you're willing to dig. If you're willing to walk through Moria. Something Sleeps there. Shhhhh.

1. I love stories that are deep. Like something you can crawl down into and investigate and learn about if you spend some time doing it.

Early Underworld Concept done 11/26/22

I am drawing diagrams of underground spaces.

I’m asking the characters questions and then writing the answers down.

I am investigating observing and reporting and putting the pieces together.

Maybe this is a strange thing to do with a place that I’m writing/creating/that is a result of me. But this is a state of mind I can get in to get the best results. I have to believe at the end that it’s not me at all.

I want to discover a whole new place.

2. A name rises from the deep.

I was writing from the perspective of Dan, the main character in the Church of Suffering. He was writing out the rules in the Church of Suffering. What you must do to be able to transcend.

Up comes the idea of “the Wizard.” Sometimes you see the wizard, when you go hard enough. The Wizard appears.

I thought, what is the wizards name? A name came up.

His name is *******

I looked it up and The name basically means “executioner.”

2. Tolkien recording the triumph and defeat of “The Dwarf Wars.”

Middle Earth is real. Tolkien dug down to the centers of it, and a Balrog is awakening in the black depths. For the Dwarfs dug too deeply, to greedily, for the true silver that is Mithril.

And he talks at the end of the Third book, in Appendix A - III about the Dwarf Wars. The tales of bitter defeat stick with me.

Like when the Dwarf King Thror’s head is chopped off by the brutal Orc “Azog” and defiled with a name carved over the face:

Azog entered history in the year T.A. 2790 due to King Thrór's desire to revisit and perhaps refound the lost realm of Khazad-dûm, in whose mighty ruins Azog dwelt. He entered the Great Gates, but Azog and his orcs captured and slew him, and branded his hewn head with his own name, "AZOG". He flung the head at Nár who waited outside, then a money purse containing "few coins of little worth", warning that he would tolerate no future Dwarf beggars entering his domain at Moria.

There are many wars fought in those books.

I laughed and cried with triumph and with defeat.

I wanted to write something that was a discovery.

I want to go deep.

I want to write something that means that much.

3. Psychonaut Memory Vaults.

When you poke around in one of my favorite video games, you find these things jumping around the levels called “Vaults.” They hold the backstories of all the characters.

My god I just want to write and draw things as tragic and beautiful as that.

Here’s one of the main character in the game “RAZ”

When he runs away from his family circus to live his dream of becoming a psychic:

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A Demon born to a good kingdom from very nasty parents.

I’m using these vignettes as little windows into the past.

Ways to discover deeper origins of The Church of Suffering.

And the father said, “woman, you are a vile wench and unlovable except by the angel of death itself.”

And she greatly was comforted.”

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