Hello all. Today i’d like to have a little talk about the next series, the space opera, which will begin in 2019, and how much lore is too much lore.<\/p>\n
Okay, here’s the deal. The next two albums, The Cyberpunk Fairy Tale and Jannissary, the balkan rock opera, factor into the lore in such a way so that a listener who doesn’t know much about the New Albion universe will be able to happily listen to the story without any trouble. I do try to do this. I have a lot of lore, but i try to walk a line between building on the lore and making separate stories accessible for new listeners. Lost Hollow doesn’t require extensive knowledge of the New Albion trilogy, although it makes some bits have more impact if you do. Carnival doesn’t require pre-existing knowledge about Raven, although i’ve used him for years in several works, mostly really early stuff. If you know the lore you get a bigger impact, but if not, one is able to enjoy the story without any problems.<\/p>\n
In addition, there’s behind the scenes lore mostly only discussed with fans or in the book. Stuff about other post humans like Jill and Michael and where they’re from (Jill is the girl from Cthulhu The Funksical for instance). Or the post human war fought between Lloyd and company and Sarah and her mutant creations. There’s a lot of lore, but once again, if all you do is listen to a few of the albums, you won’t mind, you won’t miss anything, it’s all good.<\/p>\n
I bring this up because i have a lot of ideas for the space opera, but they all require picking up where i left off. Unlike Lost Hollow, where i started again and then tangentially tied everything back into a continuation of New Albion, this direction would require that you know about New Albion and Lost Hollow and are basically up on the major lore. If i put the ideas into play. the space opera would be about between 6 to 8 acts, (20 something minutes an act) released every few months, that would follow a really freaking long story, with a few delightful divergences.<\/p>\n
Would this be a mistake? Would i get getting too far up my own butt and too convoluted? Would it be better to just tell new stores from scratch that are more accessible like the two that will be released later this year? Do New Albion fans feel that Lost Hollow isn’t a direction worth continuing? Or are you okay with the story continuing, characters returning and game pieces being put back into play?<\/p>\n
Is the lore build up too much? Am i going to end up only making albums for a diminishing number of hard core fans, and others will remember fondly the good old days of New Albion, before it all went downhill and the series devolved into my spinning my wheels in a convoluted sci fi soap opera that you stopped giving a shit about long ago? Do you think i should just relax and keep making whatever stories i want and you’ll keep buying them as long as they don’t suck, which they likely won’t?<\/p>\n
Continue the lore or freaking chill out?<\/p>\n
I am asking for you opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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