Thoughts on Gaeana…
A friend visited Gaeana’s site recently and asked, “what is that Gaeana thing?”
That’s when I realized, maybe I’m missing a vital point in the development of Gaeana… I need to really define the setting. I want to make it truly three-dimensional.
Right now for those of you who aren’t in a gaming group playing in the setting, you really have no clue what Gaeana is all about…
Here’s the lowdown…
A couple years ago I was introduced to a band called the Minstrels of Mayhem (ahem!). They travel the Renaissance festival circuit and perform all over the USA. Their music, specifically some of the songs written by Andy M. Stewart, really touched me. The timeless realization that the true moments of life exist beyond the boundaries between culture, age and time.
Being a fan of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as co-operative fiction stories played out using Dungeons & Dragons, World of Darkness, GURPS and Call of Cthulhu, I soon found myself placing the concepts of these stories within a framework of my own devising. At first the concepts were rudimentary, and admittedly much of the world still is. However, Gaeana began as a framework upon which emotionally-charged stories and in-depth examinations of “what if” are hung.
I never realized then that it would develop as it has.
Today you will find little actual information in the Gaeana web site. Much of it I’m still attempting to distill to a point it is intelligible to those outside of my skull. However, here are the highlights of where we’re going:
- Gaeana is a terrestrial world in a star system light years from Earth; Thanks to the miracles of modern astronomical technology we realize that the existance of such worlds is not only possible, but incredibly probible.
- Gaeana is a world finding itself in the midst of social and environmental upheaval. Humans (which, in addition to many other lifeforms, exist on Gaeana thanks to panspermea) settled in vast regions of land on two continents. Some now realize they are not the only intelligent species on the planet. In fact, when Barinpointe was established at the Southern corner of Tosh, it was only with the help of the Toka that the visitors were able to thrive.
- Much of the world is unexplored, at least by humans. Stories center on the lives of those in Asea, Tosh and Vosik. However, to much of the population — even of those places — their “world” extends only a few kilometers. Many of us take for granted the knowledge of what lies outside of our town, city, state or country. However, rewind time only a couple hundred years and that common understanding would not be nearly as common — or as complete.
- Gaeana exists as an opportunity to explore what could be. The more we learn of our universe, the more we realize that the laws of physics and nature are varied (at least in part) in different areas of the universe. When we expand our vistas to ideas such as string theory, we realize we may be part of a multiverse. What glorious possibilities and wonders could await us! Gaeana is just one of those possibilities. What could happen to us? If things occurred differently in the past, or if we continue down our current path and drastically alter our current world’s survivability, we could see things like those occurring in Gaeana.
I have much more to pontificate on; however, this shall suffice for now. I hope this shares some indication of where we’re going… and what one may anticipate… from Gaeana