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    The Making of Incarnation: A Reader's Companion
    The Making of Incarnation: A Reader's Companion
    The Making of Incarnation: A Reader's Companion
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    The Making of Incarnation: A Reader's Companion

    By Jason Tesar

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    The Making of Incarnation: A Reader’s Companion is an in-depth look at the first volume of the Wandering Stars series. With character worksheets, deleted scenes, and conceptual sketches from the author, you can explore Jason Tesar’s fictional universe in a whole new way.

    Read the history of the realms and how existence became a spectrum. Learn more about the angelic races, their language, and the hierarchy of their military. Understand Semjaza’s strategy for inhabiting an abandoned world. And walk through the creative process for the artwork.

    A richer, fuller experience awaits you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJason Tesar
    Release dateJun 11, 2014
    ISBN9781311290458
    The Making of Incarnation: A Reader's Companion
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    Jason Tesar

    The third of four children and an introvert from the start, Jason Tesar grew up as an imaginative "middle child" who enjoyed the make-believe world as much as the real one, possibly more. From adolescence to adulthood, his imagination fed itself on a diet of books, movies, and art, all the while growing and maturing--waiting for its opportunity. In late 1998, Jason made his first attempt at writing, managing to complete a whole scene before returning once again to reality. A year and a half later, a spontaneous night-time conversation with his wife encouraged him to take his writing seriously and to keep on dreaming. Over the next seven years, Jason carved time out of the real world to live in an imaginary one of epic fantasy, science-fiction, and military/political conflict. The fruits of this labor would later become the first three books of the bestselling AWAKENED series. Due to the incredible support from readers around the world, Jason continued his trajectory into make-believe, jumping from stable employment in the micro-electronics industry into the mysterious abyss of fiction writing. Living in Colorado with his beautiful wife and two children, Jason now spends the majority of his time fusing the best parts of his favorite genres into stories of internal struggle and triumph, friendship, betrayal, political alliances, and military conflict. His fast-paced stories span ancient and future worlds, weaving together threads of stirring drama and intense action that provoke reader comments such as, "I couldn't put it down," and "I'll read anything he writes." If you'd like to follow along on Jason's journey or get behind the scenes info on his fiction, sign up for his email list (http://eepurl.com/-PPGX). You can also find him on Facebook (jasontesar.com), Twitter (@jasontesar), Google+ (Jason Tesar), Goodreads (Jason Tesar), on his blog (www.jasontesar.com), or send him an email at jasontesar@yahoo.com.

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      The Making of Incarnation - Jason Tesar

      INTRODUCTION

      Incarnation: Wandering Stars Volume One was a story born out of many hours of contemplation, research, pencil sketches, and jotted notes. What you read in the pages of the novel was a window into this world—a dramatized perspective. But there are other windows. For those of you who enjoy such things, I thought I’d share a more direct perspective—something closer to the world-building process that I used to create the novel.

      I was inspired by the making of documentaries of movies and those gigantic reader’s companion tomes that I used to find lying on coffee tables at my local bookstore. The fictional universe that I am building is quite large, serving as the foundation for both the Wandering Stars series and its sequel, The Awakened. Out of necessity, parts of this universe will only receive a passing mention in the dramatized stories that I create. My hope is that this reader’s companion will supplement those novels, allowing you to explore conceptual territory that would otherwise remain uncharted, and in the end provide you with a fuller, richer experience. Someday I would love to offer a fully-illustrated, hardcover coffee-table book. For now I thought you might enjoy something shorter, significantly less expensive, and much more accessible to the average reader.

      I should note that this reader’s companion is essentially one giant spoiler. It is intended to be read after Incarnation. Reading it in parallel to the novel—or worse yet, before the novel—would only ruin the experience of suspense and discovery designed into the story. But you wouldn’t do that, would you?

      Good. Let’s get started.

      THE HISTORY OF THE REALMS

      If there is one concept that is the most critical to understanding the setting for Incarnation, it is that of different realms of existence. In the first paragraph of the novel, you’re introduced to the concept of creation’s spectrum. And the following scenes take place in both the Temporal (Tima) and Eternal (Eili) realms. Though a full understanding of these realms is not impossible to piece together from the scenes of the novel, it is much easier to comprehend when walking through it chronologically. So, I’ll start with the cosmology of my fictional universe.

      Creation and Rebellion

      The Holy One (Saerin) originally created everything as a single, cohesive, and complex realm. All manner of living beings, as well as other non-living matter, shared the same dimension and were only separated by physical distance. The passage of time was nearly irrelevant within this realm as all things were intended to exist permanently.

      One of the living beings, an angel, became discontented with his status and, in his pride, formed a rebellion to overthrow the Creator. The rebellion polarized the angelic host, and by necessity, began changing its function. The Evil One (Malrah), as he later became known, deceived a third of his kind into following him and went to war against the Holy One.

      The Casting Out

      The attack was repelled, and the Evil One and his followers were cast out of the presence of the Holy One. This defensive act occurred with such force that it stretched the realm, thereby revealing the intricacy of its design. The single, complex system that used to exist was pulled apart into stratified layers of existence. These layers, though still occupying the same physical space as before, were nevertheless separated by a different type of distance—dimensions of which most beings are not even aware. A vast ocean of liquid in one dimension might be solid in another, and an empty vacuum of nothingness in yet another. This is what would later be called the spectrum of creation.

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