This novel was started as a small project for fun in January of 2002 just before I was about to go and study the first year of my BA in Computer Mediated Art. It has been on going. The first few chapters were placed on the net in 2003 on it's own website with images to go along with the story.
It came about through a need to express myself through another medium and fostered by ideas and concepts that I have been interested in and been enthused by for many years with Astrology, Tarot, symbolism, myths and legends.
Originally intended as a novel when the first few chapters were written, it soon became apparent that it was going to be too long for just one book. Many more chapters have been written since then and currently it is being rewritten and divisions made for each book.
The story involves a young woman named Voltarrens and her journey in life to discover what eventually her destiny is in the Six Realms which she inhabits. A journey that is foisted upon her by higher powers of which she knows nothing of in the beginning. She is first forced to leave her family and the village where she grew up to seek her life in the outside world and given a companion of unusual qualities to aid her in her quest.
There were darkening clouds on the horizon as Voltarrens sat on the granite bench on top of the hill within the ancient circle of upright stones. She stared into the valley below with its heavily wooded forest; her mind filled with questions no one could answer. Behind her were the village, her mother and her past. The sun was just beginning to sink below the roof tops into the enveloping twilight of night, burning its ebbing rays into the back of her skull. Had life been that good in this small medieval village, secluded from the rest of the world? The last warming rays seemed to be enticing her back for an easier choice in life.
The trees in the valley below were beginning to sing as a chant on the wind. Being one of the Magical People she could hear their language as a feeling, something other than speech, something she had learned from her mother. But now her mother was pushing her out into the wider world beyond. The trees were her comforting friends in the forest, and in this lonely time, she felt as if they were her only friends.
Sixteen and short in stature, she felt very small in the Six Realms of the world. Her long dark hair flew around in the wind like the events crowding in around her for the task ahead. Beside her lay the bag that her mother had lovingly packed with the essentials. Her long green and blue dress echoed the journey she would take within the Great Forest where she was to find her mentors. It was laced up tightly in the front to keep her warm from the colder elements of the night. She looked down at the leather shoes on her feet as she realized it was almost time to go, to step off the stone seat and move forward.
This would be the first step in a long journey she did not understand; yet she felt compelled to take. Behind her nothing remained, as if some vast portal had sucked the entire village from her consciousness. The days had been peaceful there and change had been slow like the routine, she couldn’t remember a time when things were any different.
That was until destiny changed the workings of her world with the arrival of the Traveller...
For a few more chapters: Click Here to go to "Voltarrens of the Six Realms" at Geocities.
