CHANNILLO
Series Description:
The realms of Evren are in the midst of revolution— the newly established constitutional monarchy is democratizing the government, and science and industry are accelerating at the fastest rate in history. The world is changing, but for three women, change is a four letter word.
Arlenis, an Abyssal, cursed and banished to live among the mortals she refused to kill.
Nathania, a prophet, trying to find purpose after the Paragons abandon the world.
Verity, a blend, child of the Imperator and a fallen Paragon, who the Soraline, the Sisters of Fate, have just sent a sentinel— an honor normally reserved for deities.
But, when Valen, Paragon of Order, decides to reassert his control over the world, each begins to find meaning for the changes in their lives.
Three different times. Three different destinies. Three lives, entangled, that will change the course of Evren forever after the Day the Infinite Fell.
Category/Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, RomanceUpdated: Undecided
Status: Completed
Author Bio For Rebekka S. Leber:
Fledgling writer from Central Illinois, feminist, socialist, nerd, and 1/4 of the podcast Drinkshares: Last Call. @DrinksharesLC
By day, Rebekka S. Leber is a wild mannered social studies, special education, and ESL teacher. In her down time she is an outspoken activist, gamer, fangirl, and general quirkiness enthusiast.
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The idea for Proxy was inspired by my World Religions class freshman year of college, and a discussion about Hinduism. As a western kid, raised Christian beginning to lean decidedly Atheist, I was fascinated by reincarnation in the Eastern world religions. During a discussion about the inception and destruction of the universe by the gods of the Trimurti, I was struck by the idea that all of existence is created and destroyed over and over, infinitely. If that was the case, did that mean all the souls that would exist in that universe, the ones that would cycle around repeatedly, come into existence when Brahma created each universe and die out when it was destroyed by Shiva? And, if that case was the case, did Brahma factor in overpopulation when he built his stunning little ant farm? What would happen if he didn’t even fathom it? If the number of human beings- thanks to evolution, technology, and modern medicine- began to outgrow the number of available souls, would people be born without souls?
I held onto this idea in the little black idea box of my brain for a few years until two things happened; I took a Soviet History class with an exceptionally awful teacher, and... (insert the sound of visceral revulsion here) Twilight. It became a phenomenon, and I hated everything about it. But mostly, I hated Bella Swan; everything she was, everything she did, everything that happened to her. I didn’t even have to read the books to know I hated her, because I hated what she represented when it came to girls and women, and that was when I decided, yeah, not on my watch.
Enter my particularly terrible history class (that turned out to not really be about Soviet History, and more about being bored as my professor and classmates argued over the history of Christianity, Hitler, and Dr. Zhivago). One day my professor put on an old black and white Russian movie with subtitles about a ship, and I kind of just gave up on that class. So, I pulled out my notebook, and started writing. At first, it was just to keep my mind from numbing with boredom. Then, it started to actually become something. Nine years later, that something is Proxy, and I’m still building and rebuilding that story.
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The idea for Intrepid was born out of the storyline for first campaign I ever ran as a DM in D&D. The characters of Avadiel and Valen Ral were originally invented as gods for the campaign.
Later on, during my student teach
Notes:
The field of "Esoterics" in Intrepid is basically a fusing of science and magic in the universe. In Evren, there would be no difference between the two. One explains the presence and mechanics of the other. All the research and reading I have done to create the "physics" of the universe are based ideas found within Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and my limited understanding of Quantun Physics. The segments of information that inspired the lecture in this scene came from readings in Robert Ellwood's Theosophy: A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages and Lynne McTaggart's The Intention Experiement.
Series Description:
The realms of Evren are in the midst of revolution— the newly established constitutional monarchy is democratizing the government, and science and industry are accelerating at the fastest rate in history. The world is changing, but for three women, change is a four letter word.
Arlenis, an Abyssal, cursed and banished to live among the mortals she refused to kill.
Nathania, a prophet, trying to find purpose after the Paragons abandon the world.
Verity, a blend, child of the Imperator and a fallen Paragon, who the Soraline, the Sisters of Fate, have just sent a sentinel— an honor normally reserved for deities.
But, when Valen, Paragon of Order, decides to reassert his control over the world, each begins to find meaning for the changes in their lives.
Three different times. Three different destinies. Three lives, entangled, that will change the course of Evren forever after the Day the Infinite Fell.
Category/Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, RomanceUpdated: Undecided
Status: Completed
Author Bio For Rebekka S. Leber:
Fledgling writer from Central Illinois, feminist, socialist, nerd, and 1/4 of the podcast Drinkshares: Last Call. @DrinksharesLC
By day, Rebekka S. Leber is a wild mannered social studies, special education, and ESL teacher. In her down time she is an outspoken activist, gamer, fangirl, and general quirkiness enthusiast.
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The idea for Proxy was inspired by my World Religions class freshman year of college, and a discussion about Hinduism. As a western kid, raised Christian beginning to lean decidedly Atheist, I was fascinated by reincarnation in the Eastern world religions. During a discussion about the inception and destruction of the universe by the gods of the Trimurti, I was struck by the idea that all of existence is created and destroyed over and over, infinitely. If that was the case, did that mean all the souls that would exist in that universe, the ones that would cycle around repeatedly, come into existence when Brahma created each universe and die out when it was destroyed by Shiva? And, if that case was the case, did Brahma factor in overpopulation when he built his stunning little ant farm? What would happen if he didn’t even fathom it? If the number of human beings- thanks to evolution, technology, and modern medicine- began to outgrow the number of available souls, would people be born without souls?
I held onto this idea in the little black idea box of my brain for a few years until two things happened; I took a Soviet History class with an exceptionally awful teacher, and... (insert the sound of visceral revulsion here) Twilight. It became a phenomenon, and I hated everything about it. But mostly, I hated Bella Swan; everything she was, everything she did, everything that happened to her. I didn’t even have to read the books to know I hated her, because I hated what she represented when it came to girls and women, and that was when I decided, yeah, not on my watch.
Enter my particularly terrible history class (that turned out to not really be about Soviet History, and more about being bored as my professor and classmates argued over the history of Christianity, Hitler, and Dr. Zhivago). One day my professor put on an old black and white Russian movie with subtitles about a ship, and I kind of just gave up on that class. So, I pulled out my notebook, and started writing. At first, it was just to keep my mind from numbing with boredom. Then, it started to actually become something. Nine years later, that something is Proxy, and I’m still building and rebuilding that story.
---
The idea for Intrepid was born out of the storyline for first campaign I ever ran as a DM in D&D. The characters of Avadiel and Valen Ral were originally invented as gods for the campaign.
Later on, during my student teach
Notes:
The field of "Esoterics" in Intrepid is basically a fusing of science and magic in the universe. In Evren, there would be no difference between the two. One explains the presence and mechanics of the other. All the research and reading I have done to create the "physics" of the universe are based ideas found within Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and my limited understanding of Quantun Physics. The segments of information that inspired the lecture in this scene came from readings in Robert Ellwood's Theosophy: A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages and Lynne McTaggart's The Intention Experiement.