Portal fantasy emerging from hellfire highlights Six Lessons
Developmental hell isn’t a fun place for a work to reside. And one portal fantasy is finally starting to see the limelight.
Time is an author’s best friend. But with so many ideas and too little time to write and edit, a lot of those ideas get tossed into developmental hell. One epic dark fantasy that I concocted a while back has finally emerged, but so has a portal fantasy I drew up back in March 2024.
This one comprised a guy from our world and a fugitive girl from Eldoria. While Drake Ridgeback is a sports writer fed up with the political left’s perpetual march through institutions like his, Eirwyn Starweaver finds herself constantly on the run from King Malcor’s huntsmen.
Her crime? Well, there isn’t one. She’s just a witch whose power Malcor would love to utilize in his perpetual war efforts. Those who can read between the lines may know a thing or two about where I’m headed with this, especially since bureaucracies love hijacking the private sector, or even talented private people, to join their ranks.
Enter Awakening Across Worlds, which, besides my Renegades Epic and Ashes of the Throne, I’ve also found time to work on. Mastering time management has been key here, but so has the overall theme in what will be a series of six books. And each book highlights one of the Six Lessons discussed by none other than Ludwig von Mises.
Drake Ridgeback’s answer might just be hiding in the World of Eldoria
What I love about Drake Ridgeback’s character profile is that he’s someone relatable to those who understand that big government, whether it’s coming from the political left or right, often looks eerily similar when you measure it by one common denominator: both parties crave control.
Yeah, their respective worldviews may not always resemble one another (sometimes) – I can never help but notice that the hawkish party in foreign policy is often the one in control – but I could write a non-fiction book of how both sides want you to conform and fall in line with their respective dogmas.
Drake knows this, but he’s like Neo from The Matrix. He knows something’s wrong regardless of who’s in the White House and the cult of personality that wildly praises their every move – much like Liza Fury in Catch 22. But if a State apologist on either the mainstream left or right debated Drake, he’d lose badly.
Well, each book in this series will show Drake a few tricks to the trade, thanks to the Six Lessons from Ludwig von Mises entwining with each book’s plot.
Eirwyn Starweaver’s facing a different reality check
Flashback to my high school and early college years, and you would’ve caught me treating word capitalism like the mother of all swear words. It was something I didn’t speak of in a positive light, and I could never figure out how anyone with half a brain could’ve embraced anything that had to do with free markets and laissez-faire.
This is Eirwyn’s character through and through. She’s someone who, like so many I’ve come across, thinks capitalism fuels King Malcor’s military-industrial complex. But Eirwyn, just like myself once upon a time, fell into the trap of confusing capitalism with mercantilism.
Not only is Drake embarking on this odyssey to fully understand his newfound philosophy, for lack of a better term, but Eirwyn’s about to realize what’s really fueling Malcor’s sphere of influence. And it’s definitely not what so many in today’s world think.
For me, this is going to be a fun series to concoct alongside the Renegades Epic, Ashes of the Throne, and The Arcane Prophecy, now that time management is no longer a factor.
