My friend and collaborator E.R. Donaldson recently asked me if I would be interested in writing within the universe he has created. I’m used to creating my own worlds – so this was new to me.
He offered this opportunity to many writers, but given our shared history working on a variety of projects – I was excited to give it a go. He provided everything needed to gear up for the challenge, not least of which, was an offer of prize money. https://app.t2.world/article/clwfaa9qh44194921mcqgsgq149
The Nethraverse is a vast and sprawling place. His Codex was necessary, but even with it – it was hard to narrow down all of the options to just one story.
I opted to write the story of a seemingly simple monk on the distant (and thus far never named in the lore) temple planet of Wataru which is dedicated to the Scarab faced god, Khepri. I wrote five chapters, each of which is permanently entered on the blockchain using the T2 platform. I hope that you enjoy them. The story went places that not even I expected.
- A Tender of the Khepri Temple – Link
- Duties and Obligations of a Kheprian Priest Tender – Link
- The Subliminal Night of the Eleventh Day on Wataru – Link
- The Council of Khepri – Link
- The Khepri Vascular – Link
Images were created using the AI platform Night Cafe and I used ChatGPT to translate the chant/prayer into the invented High Kheprian language. I also used a variety of AI platforms to generate names for the council members, most of which I did not use, but a few that I lightly modified and utilized. I recently learned that Gandolf wasn’t a name invented by J.R.R. Tolkien but one invented by William Morris, whose novel News from Nowhere, inspired my own novel Notes from Nowhere.
