Oct 3, 2016

It’s October 3rd, Ghosts and Guardians!

Which means a lot of things, but for A Tale of Ghosts and Guardians, it means it’s time for an update!

This week’s monster files spotlight is on the LIVING DEAD, which is a heavily populated category. It includes any creature that was dead for a period of time and is once again up and moving. Zombies, mummies, ghouls, and patchwork creatures fall into this category. Vampires do not, and the reason why will be explained next week.

The Living Dead are brought back without consent. Their resurrection takes a great amount of power and usually holds unforeseen consequences. Magic and godly intervention are the two main vehicles which raise the dead, the other less common one is Man’s perversion of natural science. Due to the various means of resurrection, how the living dead behave will also vary. Some are mindless, some have one purpose (to kill, to reach a destination, to follow the orders of their summoner), and others have the personality and free will from their previous lives. Some will continue to eat, drink, and age as a human would, and others will not age or heal after wounded.

In A Tale of Ghosts and Guardians Hardy, Chris, and Maninder fall under the category of the Living Dead, but their origins, skills, and personalities are very diverse. 

I’ve added an excerpt from Chapter Nine: Untangled, the meeting of Chris and Maninder, the only two characters not yet introduced in my sample chapters. Check it out and let me know what you think!