Hi everyone!
We’re busy, busy, busy. Making words. Redlining words. Making cocktails. Drinking cocktails. Having holidays. Making more words. Working on other books. But I wanted to share with you some of our current batch of wordstuff. I’ve been posting classic stuff. Disciplines. Clan spreads. All that jazz. Today, I wanted to share with you some chapter fiction, to give a feel for some of the delicious flavor we’re delivering. I hope this whets your appetite.
Remember, first draft material. Don’t sweat the specifics. But we’d love to hear from you. We hope you dig it like a shovel.
-David
Superb. I found it interesting on several levels. It was a reminder that the Roads of Morality exist in a human moral universe that’s very different from the Enlightenment-derived modern one, with things like persecution of the Jews widely considered morally acceptable. The vampire protagonist is intriguingly contradictory, speaking of “our people” and acting as the avenger, if not protector, of his community, and yet ultimately finding justification for his actions in a rejection of those very sentiments, and naming humans as cattle. You’re treading into slightly provocative ground. You begin by having a vampire point out that the Blood Libels are libelous, and end by having a Jew feed on the blood of (nominal) Christian. That aspect made me slightly uncomfortable, but I’d rather see the brutality and bigotry of the time faced head-on, rather than Hollywood-ised away. And beautifully written, as well.
This is an absolutely fascinating piece. I love seeing the Jewish religion filtered through the vamperic prism and the moral struggle of a non-Christian devout with their vamperic nature.
This fiction actually causes me to beg whether the Roads’ section should have quick viewpoints for each major dominant religious group. (Or possibly an appendix on religion in general?)
Looks great.
On a different note… is this project still going forward? I have not seen any new posts in 6 months and am getting anxious. I would love to hear that the project is moving forward and what has been done since December 7th.
You can see the current projected status on our schedule page, and weekly updates in Rich’s Monday Meeting notes.