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The Dwarf marched slowly and painfully through Hell. It was nothing but rocks and crags, climbing and dropping, caverns with awful scenes of torture enacted before him, horrid sounds, cries of pain and weeping, and no sense of time or […]
The day after his capture by supposed pirates, The Dwarf awoke tripping his brains out in Heaven. It was The Garden Of Earthly Delights version, as opposed to the more ambiguous Judaic or Christian versions, but since he had virtually […]
Abbas al-Sabba prided himself on being the descendent of the infamous Hassan I Sabbah, the first Grandmaster of the Assassins cult whose mountain fortress in the Alborz mountains of Persia is the stuff of legend. In fact, Abbas’ obsession with […]
Aboard the ship he was simply known as The Dwarf, mostly because often the simple nickname is the best. He was from New Albion, which he spoke of with a mix of fondness and deep bitterness, and he had purposely […]
We have now reached the 3rd generation of McAlistairs, Byron the son of Edgar and Fay. Who is he? He is a politician, aspiring to be Mayor of New Camden. His platform is heavy on the need to keep government […]
As we prepare to begin composition of the 3rd Act (in about 2 weeks) it’s becoming time to address the one character in the entire Opera who is in all 4 Acts, present in all 4 generations the show encompasses. […]
Steampunk stories, actually the entire notion, rely completely upon reimagining history. The entire thing got started by reimagining Victoria era Britain (with a sci-fi twist), but it’s grown to include other countries and places, usually within a 100 to 200 year framework. […]
A match made in heaven, surely. Tarot is, if nothing else, a potent collection of archetypes, capable of being reimagined, redesigned and reinterpreted ad infinum. Steampunk of course specializes in stamping it’s aesthetic upon anything it meets. You’d think there’d […]
As we move into the 2nd Act, we arrive at the 2nd generation of McAlistairs, Annabel’s son, Edgar. Who is he? At the outset of the 2nd Act he is young, early to mid 20 something, no older than 25. […]
Annabel McAlistair: As the 3rd song opens, we are in Annabel’s private lab, where she is about to attempt to animate a mannequin construct. Who is she? Annabel definitely has the neurotic (mad) scientist thing going on. But this is […]