Where to begin…

Arbi­ture has been a stop/start project for me. It began due to my affin­ity for the short story, The Fallen. I liked the cre­ative glim­mers in the story; the small details that shaped its brief exis­tence, and felt that there was more to this race of char­ac­ters than a short bat­tle scene, Who are they? Why do some have wings? What is this reli­gion? What is this world? Why are they fight­ing, and where do these sweet tech-tanks comes from?

I took these lit­tle snip­pets and broad­ened their impor­tance, world build­ing them in time for the 2009 NaNoW­riMo. It was to hypo­thet­i­cally take place when two angelic races dis­cover a dream­like realm between their own and begin pop­u­lat­ing it, learn­ing about one another in the process. Seem­ingly over­com­ing their entirely oppos­ing cul­tures, these races co-exist for mil­len­nia, until some lose their wings and old atti­tudes re-emerge. The story was to be advanced through the POV of two sol­diers from oppos­ing sides who fall in love, and an elder who wishes to change the per­cep­tions of his own people.

Unfor­tu­nately, I lost my way and iron­i­cally, it was the very cre­ation of the uni­verse that had been so hard to define and cre­ate. Hope­fully I can get it back on track someday.

You can fol­low the devel­op­ment of the (renamed) Arbi­ture world build­ing process here.