The Rosewar Chronicle
The Poetry
While the Chronicle started originally in fiction, the poetry that its ideas would spawn were present almost from the first word. The creator attempted to write his works in cycles, each cycle containing key core elements of theme and language that rendered it (at least in his own mind} distinct from the others. The resultant compilation, taken from the author's early youth up through the present day and tentatively titled Travels of the Wanderer, allows some insight into the creator of the Rosewar. Also, cross-over imagery and thematic elements abound and enrich both fiction and verse.
What gave rise to the rebirth of the Rosewar after so many years gathering dust on the shelf was an odd occurance of serendipity. The creator rediscovered his interest in role playing games, and at the same time was struck by powerful dreams which he expressed in his most recent cycle of poetry. Eventually, he saw the benefits of fleshing out the vision of his dreams and poetry into an elaborate dance between mediums.
Drawing from his previous fiction and the new cycle of poetry, the worlds of the Rosewar were reborn with a new and vibrant vision, both more hauntingly beautiful and terrifically fragile. For the years had aged the many worlds the epic spanned, and what once was innocent fell sway to the forces of banality and consensus which besieged it. What emerged was a multiverse in which magic, science, and religion existed, but in a brittle balance. And into the balance emerge the Players of perhaps the greatest Game ever envisioned: the Rosewar.
