Those of you who actually pay attention will perhaps be aware of my pretty constant hinting in regards to a 'secret collaborative project' I was running. Some of you may well even have been intrigued as to what this project might be! I shared a scene from this project: The Chronicles of Enoch : Darkness Within (book one of the Enoch Quintet). This was a highly dramatic scene of the Fall of Atlantis and a conflict of sorts between Lucifer (yes that one) and Michael (wings, sprear of lightning, yes). This shared scene was chosen because it fitted the theme of the video, gave me a chance to practise my acting skills, highlighted the central themes and history of the world I was creating and gave just a hint of what to expect. Today I reveal the cover and some of the history of this project. Soon I will reveal much more. We are nine chapters into the first book and expect to see some of those chapters for your pleasure soon.
Now, the sharper among you may well realise that I sneaked this out a few times already, or at least bits of it...This has appeared on Instagram and G+, as well as twitter. It has indeed, well spotted, had to see who was paying attention!
The Chronicles Of Enoch began about 2 months ago as a simple writing exercise my someone who was just a friend who needed some writing practise. You know the one, you write some dialogue, they read it and send their dialogue, after a while you start building a collaborative scene. I started boucing this idea around and between us we pretty much invented the Chronicles from the ground up. All that from 800 words of dialogue...
Just goes to show doesn't it? The greatest of ideas have the smallest of beginnings. In theory at least.
Imagine if I told you that all of the myths, all of the legends, all of the ancient and modern stories (though we call them urban myths and conspiracy theories now) were true? What if I then told you they were also lies? What if I then proceed to intimate that the truth and the lie are fact? It's simple really. All stories started off with what really happened, then get told and retold - each teller adding to and embroidering the account - until we barely recogise it. Fact becomes myth after getting lost in fancy embroidery. Truth becomes legend...
There was an Achilles, a Hercules, a Gilgamesh, a Medusa, a Centaur...there was a Jesus. There was one of each but there were also fifty, a hundred of them. Today we have the version which was the most popular and the others have been forgotten. Almost. Seeds and fragments of them crop up every once in a while, in the parts which don't make sense, the conflicts, the contradictions, the confusions and continuity errors. The Bible is full of them. Why? Because it was edited, translated and tranliterated much more heavily than it should have been.
The hardest part of this project so far has been the research. Not only do sources disagree with and outright contradict one another but they present completely different interpretations of events in ways which lead you to somewhere which simply confuses so that you have to stop, think, research some more and then choose the one which fits the flow of the story and narrative best. So, conspiracy theorists, those whose favourite theory I ignored or if I followed a 'debunked' theory, I don't care. This is fiction not investigative journalism.
My job as a fiction writer is to engage readers in a coherant and believable world, not prove that Jesus was an alien or that aliens and UFOs are simply part of a trick instigated in the devil. I can prove nothing but if you want to take my narritive and research and prove it (or disprove is, I don't mind) please be my guest. I would love to learn more about subjects I have found thrilling and deeply engaging as I have researched them. I also have an admission to make, I like some of these theories too and am convinced that the world we believe in isn't close to the world that is. Then again regular bloke #1 here is not going to change that any time soon.
The Chronicles of Enoch : Darkness Within follows several distinct storylines and serves as an intoduction to the world of Enoch and the Nephilim. A world where Atlantis was real (still is if we could get the ten miles down in the Atlantic to find it), built by the Fallen angels who both fathered the nephilim and instructed the human race in matters such as reading and writing, medecine, astronomy and astrology, magic, metal work and how to design decent makeup combinations for the ladies. The Biblical Flood was part of a chain of disasters which drowned Atlantis, as well as just over one fifth of the world of that time forever. Once the waters receeded and the flood surge ceased, these locales were deep under the new oceans forever, never to see light again. Atlan, the capital city of Atlantis; Dogobathel, the capital of Doggerland; Teotihuacan, Aztec mythical city and others, gone forever, far beneath the waves.
The myths about these lost lands, the flood, the strangers who came to primative lands to instruct them; these too are everywhere; some call these newcomes aliens, I call them nephilim... The Westermen, the Bean Sidhe, the Annukim, the Enkil, the Titans, gods and monsters of Greek mythology the Mesopotamian gods, all claim that these beings came from across the sea; from a mythical land no-one can find, a mythical place across the Ocean, into the sunset, sunrise; one of the two. Some legends talk of said lands vanishing beneath the ocean; Lemuria, Atlantis, Avalon, Sundaland, Mu...did these lands exist?
There is evidence of a massive Flood event which took place around 6500 B.C. and could have drowned vast swathes of land. Truths formally dismissed as myths have been found to have a scientific basis, just not enough proof, simply bits and pieces.
We know more about the surface of Mars than we do of the depths of the ocean, it has been said. Negative pressure is easier to compensate for (the vacuum of space where there is no pressure can be dealt with by filling a sealed vessel with enough air) than positive pressure (the deepest a manned vessel has gone is 15,000 feet so far, unmanned 35,000 feet, just less than the deepest measured part of the oncean at 36,000 feet). Getting vehicles into space is a lot less challenging than getting vehicles to the bottom of the sea with current technology. Getting people there is too much of a challenge for our technology. So we do not know what's really down there and what happened to the people who were there when the Ocean came rushing in. What if people did get clear from these potentially advanced civilations before the rest of the human race was even close to that developed?
In The Book of Enoch we hear of how the Fallen Angels came down to Earth and took on bodies of flesh, like ours but different. They were angelic forms given mass. These angels, Enoch said found the daughters of man fair and reproduced with them. Some of these couplings engendered giants, others monsters, others they do not go into detail about. He also talks about the Flood being sent to end this corruption of the human bloodline. God was ready to start over again and wipe out all life on Earth until he found Noah, the great-grandson of the self-same Enoch whose bloodline remained untouched by what was called the nephilim corruption. The rest we know. The Fllod came, Noah rescued a lot of Animals on his Ark, Ray Winstone hid out below decks and fought with him before being killed and thrown over the side...
However, it is also mentioned that He (God) let 10% of the nephilim live to be the bad guys and demons, to show humans the wrong way and to contrast the path He wanted us to follow; to be demons and devils who will torment and tempt us, punish the wicked etc. Darkness to contrast with the Light and make it more visible, you see? The Fallen were stripped of their bodies and remained as evil spirits without shape or form but they could, if we believe rabbinic and Kabbalistic texts, as well as other apocrypha, possess human beings and thus get a body for a time. They, upon losing this body had twenty breaths to find another one before going forever somewhere nobody I read could agree on the name of, it's bad though and you don't get to come back; or you do. Again, sources disagree; some say forever, others say for a few centuries then they can come back after their period of non-existence is over.
Combine all of these things, together with texts from other ancient religions and philosophies and we have something. We combine them and now all these demi-gods are the children of the nephilim who looked more normal. It is said that the giants bred with beasts and created such things as the Gorgons (Medusa and her sisters), the Minotaur...all those chimera legend is filled with. Perhaps even the animal headed gods of Egypt? Maybe the nephilim who were not giants bred too and the legion of demi-gods, Heroes and supermen were, in fact hybrids; the angel gene being watered down with each generation but creating (as mentioned in Genesis) Men of Great Reknown.
This is the foundation of our series. The nephilim and what are called half-breeds are working with Lucifer and other Fallen Angels - the latter present in possessed human bodies, something called riding by them - to bring about the much prophesised End of Everything and force God to admit that he got it wrong with humans. Lucifer first tried to breed perfect humans (sound familiar, we might be going there) but that went wrong so now he will use what he has already and can get or make to end humankind forever. At least that is his plan. Enoch is sent down from Heaven to stop them but has no idea where to start. Only one ally comes to his aid, Sable the rogue nephilim who hunts down other nephilim because he believes it is right to do so, he has honour and conscience. He is like that green fellow with the sad piano music; he travels from place to place, righting wrong where he finds them, fighting who needs to be fought. Usually he finds his brothers and sisters are behind the wrong and need to be fought, their death are the common result. He is hated and admired by the others of his kind; called traitor and outcast. He is still alive because his skills at combat are unequalled by anyone alive, except for a very small handful perhaps, and these ones tend not not want to get their hands dirty. As we enter the story, he is living a small cabin on the fringes of Sherwood forest, avoiding pretty much everyone.
Join us soon for Darkness Within; where it all begins and enter this world of evil, violence and conflict where nothing is as it appears to be. Where there really are secret societies controlling the world but they are not as you expect. Lucifer and the other four "Horsemen" are preparing for the Apocalyspe and it looks like no-one is going to be able to stop them. An old and non-violent Prophet least of all, not even with the help of the best soldier that ever was; the man who created the myths of Prometheus.
Intense from the very beginning and filled with a complex mixture of epic fantasy, philosophy, religion, tension, action which does not stop and wheels within wheels which are actually just a distraction for still smaller wheels. A journey through darkness and viciously violent evil, where nightmares are real and have lots of sharp teeth! To a place where we may well discover what it really means to be human. A journey which, we hope, will lead us to Light and Redemption. We'll see when we get there because we're half way through Book One and with 4 and a half to go, a lot could happen! For now, get ready from your first chapter peeks very, very soon!
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