To quote a character from the world of Story, “Darkness begat Light. Light begat Shadow. Shadow created Human. And Human spins Story.”
The world we live in is Reality. The world in which we build our waking dreams is Story.
In the beginning, humans gained their humanity from capturing light along with fire, and discovering the shadows that light creates—shadows in which all sort of things, both wicked and wonderful, can hide. Shadows gave rise to imagination, imagination to complex language, and complex language to the ability to share dreams and what-ifs…and this shared dream of humanity is the world of Story.
Story is the world of what could be, what should be…and what should never be. It is the pure dreams of creators, shared by those who cherish the dreams. Story gave Reality civilization—architecture, art, music, science, agriculture, mathematics, literature, technology, invention, inspiration, the vision that life could be better than starving, scratching in the dirt for food, watching nine out of every ten children die before their first birthday.
Despair always had a place in Reality. Story gave us hope.
But ALL humans build Story, not just creators. Some humans are destroyers, and they, too, have their following, not just in Reality, but in Story as well.
Now the world of Story is in trouble. The dreams of the world are turning to despair and destruction, creators are losing ground to those who claim that individual dreams are worthless, that “better” is no longer possible, that hope and vision are for fools, and that humans as a species and as individuals deserve nothing less than annihilation.
The dreams of story become the truth of Reality.
But there is a path between the worlds—the creation of TalysMana that cast light and shadow, that create gates humans can tread.
And one woman, to escape the dangers of her Reality, is about to flee into Story, discover the even greater dangers there…and take up the fight to bring hope back to the dreams of humankind.
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