Kroniikles was inspired by two great works of ancient India, A primordial evil described by a south Indian sect, that is supposed to bring about end of days and the ringing questions in a obscure poem of the Rig Veda. It started as a flash, an idea that rang around inside the empty recesses of my head until it resounded stoutly with innate matter converting it magically into my mind. The idea became a thought and then a collection of thoughts flooded forth like a river in spate and having no dam to contain them, these thoughts began flowing out in words through a powerful and arcane medium, the word processor!
It has humble beginnings for the fabled fable started as a bed time story for my son. It did not start with grand designs but merely as a collection of short, action oriented stories to excite my son's imagination and to lull me to sleep! Then the unthinkable happened. Leaving these stories ringing in my mind and the puppies that I had bought for him behind, my son left me to go live with his mother. There was this vast cold vacuum created in me and I was lost in a place that was bleak and foggy with the road no longer visible. To fill this vacuum I started writing the story of the warrior mage and his friends and their destinies.
Somewhere along the line, the story grew into something wondrous and fulfilling and I realised that after a long long time I was enjoying myself and the second miracle happened, I realised I had made a midlife discovery about myself, such was the power of this discovery that it became an obsession.
So...in between managing and growing a fledgling company from a one room affair to a multinational business venture, entrusted to my care by my trusty bosses, falling in love with a dark sultry beauty (who is now my wife and my biggest constructive critic with my eternal gratitude for her support) and managing the daily humdrum of life between the economic reality of limited resources and unlimited wants (!) I was able to complete hundred and four chapters of fantasy fiction that has Dragons (slightly modified to be a dragon-snake), Gandharvas (love torn nature spirit), Yakshas (Really...really angry powerful nature spirits), Immortal warrior mages (blessed and cursed), Sages (Quirky if you ask me!), Asuras (only have one thing to say ... these guys are awesome!), Devas (Very good lookers, wily and very cool) , Humans (sad past, cynical, free will...the usual) and a Bull God (he loves his plums!) all fighting an evil that is beyond time itself. They have to face Rakshas, anamolous beings, mordant slimes and the abhorrent Elder from beyond creation.
My son and daughter are of course very excited about the book and follow its progress with avid interest, insisting that I should have it published.
Many Indian legends and myths have inspired me on the way and continue to do so. Researching for Kronicles became a road to self discovery about me, my past, my heritage and what I am as an Indian, it also brought me closer to my loved ones and I hope one day in the not too distant future I will reach out to my aeonian readers as well.
Vadhan
