I started working on this project when I turned fifteen. I had a marvelous vision in my imagination of some great culmination of endless ages and eternities, with a triumphant and thunderous dawn that broke the darkness and brought all things to a glorious conclusion. Call it archetypal or call it naive--this is what I saw, and this is what I've been striving to write towards ever since I first saw it in the eye of my mind.
The volumes, in order:
THE POWER AND THE CORRUPTION
THE RISEN AND THE FALLEN
THE REASON AND THE PASSION
THE TRUTH AND THE LIE
THE VALIANT AND THE FAINT
THE TRIUMPH AND THE SURRENDER
THE ORDER AND THE CHAOS
THE LIFE AND THE DEATH
THE CREATION AND THE VOID
THE FOUNT AND THE MAW
This is where I begin, and this is where I end. This is meant to be The Story--the story to end all stories, to encompass all truths, to bring about a grand and resounding climax to the great battle of eternity--of the Light and the Darkness, the Caidon and the Orraim, and the gods. This is meant to encompass everything.
So this is my project. I've got a long, long way to go. This is me bearing my soul to you, so you can see what it is that I aspire towards: I intend to become so much more than I've ever been before.
This is the CAIORR. This is the reason that I created this blog in the first place--so I could record my journey in reaching that far off, but so tantalizingly-close horizon that keeps me running home.
