Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Summer Competition Winner - Ahriman
Thanks to everyone who entered the summer competition - the quality of all the entries was absolutely fantastic - every single one was amazing!! The strength of the imaginations of children never ceases to amaze me - so in a way it is with some sadness that we have to choose a winner, because everyone deserves a prize on this one.
But the winner we've chosen was applauded not just by me and the teacher who helped lead this particular workshop - but also by all the other kids in the class, so in some ways, I think this is probably a fair result.
So, stand forward Charity Love (yes, that's her real name!) who gave us: The Legion!
The Legion protect the Black Stone of Obsidian, a rectangular marble-like stone. A source of energy that emits the power of love, peace and happiness thoughout the world. The Legion are the result of a genetic experiment. There are 10,000 of them. They are all identical. Half of them are men and half of them are women. They have enhanced abilities - partly-psychic and partly-physical. They have been scattered throughout space and time, so adventures can take place anywhere at any time (great for an ongoing series!). They believe the purpose of life is to create harmony from chaos.
The Black Stone is always under attack from The Snake. The Snake is evil, hate and chaos. It is partly-physical, exploding into the physical world in the shape of a thin 500-mile long underground snake that lives beneath the surface of the earth and burrows through the mud and rock often popping up in the middle of the night in teenage girls' bedrooms(!); partly temporal - it can weave through the folds of time and appear in different times at the same time, so to speak - and partly psychic, it can burrow into the minds of men leaving behind eggs that grow into psychic worms, creating temptation and sick and evil thoughts - or sometimes just discord and depression, unhappiness, fear and anger.
The Snake is trying to capture the Stone for Ahriman, a great sorceror who lived at the dawn of time. He has progressed beyond the human frame into a world of ideas, archetypes and thoughts. He wishes to consume the Black Stone psychically, draining it of its energy - in a way that you might drain a peach of its juice. Ahriman is pure evil and he wishes to consume all the good in the world. But what is evil? With Ahriman, it is simply a belief. He believes harmony is unnatural and that chaos is what entropy teaches us is the natural order of things. When entropy is complete, only then will the universe find true peace. To Ahriman, it is the Stone that is corrupt.
And then there is the mysterious Zurvan - a Being so abstract that he is as far removed from Ahriman, the Snake, or the Legion and the Stone - as these creatures are from us. Zurvan is amoral and his purpose is unknown. Is it possible that he has created the universe and everything in it simply to experiment with his ideas of Platonic concepts such as Love, Evil, Chaos and Order? Or does he have another purpose that the series will slowly unveil?
Isn't that amazing? Charity is just fourteen years old! Isn't that just a bit scary? And she looks such a normal, sweet and innocent little thing - with all these thoughts floating around in her head!! Well done, Charity - you have some truly amazing concepts here!
Stand by for an announcement for a great new autumn competition coming soon from AK Comics UK!
But the winner we've chosen was applauded not just by me and the teacher who helped lead this particular workshop - but also by all the other kids in the class, so in some ways, I think this is probably a fair result.
So, stand forward Charity Love (yes, that's her real name!) who gave us: The Legion!
The Legion protect the Black Stone of Obsidian, a rectangular marble-like stone. A source of energy that emits the power of love, peace and happiness thoughout the world. The Legion are the result of a genetic experiment. There are 10,000 of them. They are all identical. Half of them are men and half of them are women. They have enhanced abilities - partly-psychic and partly-physical. They have been scattered throughout space and time, so adventures can take place anywhere at any time (great for an ongoing series!). They believe the purpose of life is to create harmony from chaos.
The Black Stone is always under attack from The Snake. The Snake is evil, hate and chaos. It is partly-physical, exploding into the physical world in the shape of a thin 500-mile long underground snake that lives beneath the surface of the earth and burrows through the mud and rock often popping up in the middle of the night in teenage girls' bedrooms(!); partly temporal - it can weave through the folds of time and appear in different times at the same time, so to speak - and partly psychic, it can burrow into the minds of men leaving behind eggs that grow into psychic worms, creating temptation and sick and evil thoughts - or sometimes just discord and depression, unhappiness, fear and anger.
The Snake is trying to capture the Stone for Ahriman, a great sorceror who lived at the dawn of time. He has progressed beyond the human frame into a world of ideas, archetypes and thoughts. He wishes to consume the Black Stone psychically, draining it of its energy - in a way that you might drain a peach of its juice. Ahriman is pure evil and he wishes to consume all the good in the world. But what is evil? With Ahriman, it is simply a belief. He believes harmony is unnatural and that chaos is what entropy teaches us is the natural order of things. When entropy is complete, only then will the universe find true peace. To Ahriman, it is the Stone that is corrupt.
And then there is the mysterious Zurvan - a Being so abstract that he is as far removed from Ahriman, the Snake, or the Legion and the Stone - as these creatures are from us. Zurvan is amoral and his purpose is unknown. Is it possible that he has created the universe and everything in it simply to experiment with his ideas of Platonic concepts such as Love, Evil, Chaos and Order? Or does he have another purpose that the series will slowly unveil?
Isn't that amazing? Charity is just fourteen years old! Isn't that just a bit scary? And she looks such a normal, sweet and innocent little thing - with all these thoughts floating around in her head!! Well done, Charity - you have some truly amazing concepts here!
Stand by for an announcement for a great new autumn competition coming soon from AK Comics UK!
