Deathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage
I edited 20 pages last night! so 10% of version 3.2 is edited. There's still a long slog to go, but at least we're moving again.
One thing I DO explore more in this book is how gravian society works.
It's a topsy turvy society from out point of view where females are the dominant gender. They describe their 'man-servants' as something like how a man might have described his wife a century or so ago. Males don't own property, they are more SEEN as property of their mistresses. This isn't portrayed as in a fetish orientated slave relationship, but as a practical reflection of how society was before gender equality, only the other way around. Important females can own several man-servants, though most will only have one. This is a reflection of middle-eastern husbands owning a harem of 'wives'.
The way gravian society might seem a little absurd. However it's supposed to be. I wanted to show how absurd the patriarchal society seems by mirroring it in a striking way.
It's a continuation of a theme started in earlier books, I've already talked about gravian society. The new gravian character you see on the cover was an important person in gravian society, she's intelligent, but she makes mistakes. She makes errors of judgement, because she's been thrust into a culture which she doesn't really understand. She makes assumptions about human society which are perhaps false. She is perhaps a little naive. Her problems with the people she lives amongst are perhaps an exaggeration, of the sort of ill-feeling immigrants feel when they are placed alone in the middle of a culture they don't understand. What I'm saying with this story is to be tolerant of other cultures and try to show some understanding. The human instinct is to mistrust people who are unlike us. I'm saying fight that instinct! Befriend people of the opposite gender, who are older than you and younger than you! Befriend people who are of another ethnicity and culture to you. If we all tried to do this we'd live in a more peaceful world!
Martyn
One thing I DO explore more in this book is how gravian society works.
It's a topsy turvy society from out point of view where females are the dominant gender. They describe their 'man-servants' as something like how a man might have described his wife a century or so ago. Males don't own property, they are more SEEN as property of their mistresses. This isn't portrayed as in a fetish orientated slave relationship, but as a practical reflection of how society was before gender equality, only the other way around. Important females can own several man-servants, though most will only have one. This is a reflection of middle-eastern husbands owning a harem of 'wives'.
The way gravian society might seem a little absurd. However it's supposed to be. I wanted to show how absurd the patriarchal society seems by mirroring it in a striking way.
It's a continuation of a theme started in earlier books, I've already talked about gravian society. The new gravian character you see on the cover was an important person in gravian society, she's intelligent, but she makes mistakes. She makes errors of judgement, because she's been thrust into a culture which she doesn't really understand. She makes assumptions about human society which are perhaps false. She is perhaps a little naive. Her problems with the people she lives amongst are perhaps an exaggeration, of the sort of ill-feeling immigrants feel when they are placed alone in the middle of a culture they don't understand. What I'm saying with this story is to be tolerant of other cultures and try to show some understanding. The human instinct is to mistrust people who are unlike us. I'm saying fight that instinct! Befriend people of the opposite gender, who are older than you and younger than you! Befriend people who are of another ethnicity and culture to you. If we all tried to do this we'd live in a more peaceful world!
Martyn
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