Want Rogue Mage Fiction?
Posted by Faith on Feb 10, 2012 in Daily Musings, Freebie Short Stories | 0 comments
For the people who want Rogue Mage, Thorn St.Croix fiction, well, there are something like eleven shorts and vignettes in the first RPG book alone! Here’s a link to a partial of the first one! Kickstarter pledgers get a larger chunk soon!
Want fiction in the Rogue Mage universe? Want to know if she ever goes to Enclave? Want to know what happens in Enclave when seraphs make a flyby? Want to know something about the history of world Thorn lives in? It’s written.
You all must know by now that the kickstarter project is up and running at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1473997268/rogue-mage-roleplaying-game-and-world-book
What you may not know is that is a TON of fiction in the kickstarter project and there are TWO kickstarter books in the project! At last count, there are eleven pieces of fiction in the first one alone.
I love, love, love Thorn and her world. When I got a chance to write more Thorn fiction for the kickstarter project I was in heaven! Her world is different from ours, so alien and wonderful and dreadful, and yet so full of the same petty differences and violence as our own.
Some of my fans haven’t read the Rogue Mage books, perhaps because they are so different from Jane Yellowrock, and I fully understand that. But for me, as a writer, it is the very differences of that unique Rogue Mage universe that make the world so intriguing. In Thorn’s world, I was able to take existing apocalyptic tropes and turn them on their heads. In the Rogue Mage universe, the end has come according to prophecy and the scripture of multiple religions and cultures, with winged messengers and beings of judgment who brought plagues and horror and war, followed by leathery, winged creatures of Darkness who were bent on enslaving and eating the remaining humans. However, unlike most apocalyptic scenarios, no God has appeared. In fact after the destruction, plagues, wars and horror, the Beings of the Light are looking more and like the beings of Darkness who followed.
In Thorn’s world, destruction and the scars and remnants of a lost civilization exist alongside the new world, which is built atop the old. But the new civilization is barren, destitute, and most of its inhabitants are isolated in physically fortified or magically warded cities. Only a few live in small towns in out-of-the-way places, depending on the shape of the ice-age landscape to protect them from the devil-spawn who roam, looking for their next meal, and from the greater Darkness who hide in hellholes beneath the ground.
The remaining humans exist alongside the new creatures, born out the apocalyptic destruction—the neomages, creatures who look almost human, but who are an evolutionary leap that left humans behind. . . Because neomages can use leftover creation energy to do what looks like magic. Humans fear and hate and yet depend on the mages whose magic can bring ease of life that mimics the technological world the humans have lost. Yet, the humans themselves are bringing tech back, and when it comes to war, the humans are fighters unparalleled.
As a character, Thorn is very different too. Unlike Jane Yellowrock, who is a fighter from the very page of the first novel, Thorn starts out inexperienced and untrained, and we are led into her world slowly, and into her developing character slowly. Thorn starts out soft and afraid and unwilling to put herself in danger, yet, because of her love of her step-child, she finally walks into the Dark to fight.
If you have never participated in a Kickstarter project before, here is the short and skinny on how it works. You go to the Rogue Mage Kickstarter page and take a look at the pledge “tiers”. At every pledge level, you will get something back in return. For instance, if you are only interested in getting a .pdf copy of the books (and all of the short stories J ) then you would choose the $20 level. If you want actual soft cover copies, that would be the $55 pledge level and so on. Currently, the pledge levels range from just $5 up to $1000, depending on how much support you’d like to lend to
this project. Take a look and see what goodies we have up so far… http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1473997268/rogue-mage-roleplaying-game-and-world-book
It is such a rare opportunity for a reader to be directly involved in the birth of a fictional world like this. I really hope that you will jump in and grab your chance to help bring Thorn’s world to life. And a very special thank you to all of the readers that have supported this project so far. I could not have done it without you.
http://www.RogueMage.net
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1473997268/rogue-mage-roleplaying-game-and-world-book
Faith
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