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.
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.
My books don’t fit in any neat box — because they’re about people who feel something huge is missing… and actually go look for it. Some even find it.
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CD Damitio writes at indignified.substack.com — essays on utopias, dystopias, and the spaces between. Free to read. No algorithm, no sponsored content. His books can be found on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/CD-Damitio/author/B001JP7NWA
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