{"id":134,"date":"2011-06-22T20:12:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T20:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=134"},"modified":"2011-06-22T20:12:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T20:12:41","slug":"so-what-is-malmaxa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/so-what-is-malmaxa\/","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230; What is Malmaxa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Envision a world ruled by six Divine Laws, immutable and absolute.<\/p>\n<p>Liaju is about to receive her twelfth marks. Arcane symbols etched within her flesh, by Divine Decree.\u00a0 Mystic marks, granting access to her first matching Convocation.\u00a0 Troubling dreams\u2026 Liaju\u2019s vision reveals the precipice her people, the Seizen, unknowingly approach \u2013 and a possible path of escape. An obscure path, hidden and locked.\u00a0 Liaju holds its elusive key, as incomprehensible as it is frightening.\u00a0 <em>Self-sacrifice<\/em>. \u00a0Must Liaju relinquish all to secure the Seizen\u2019s survival?<\/p>\n<p>Eden, a mischievous child, succumbs to temptation and leads her cousin astray. \u00a0Their path leads through terror and death, to ultimate understanding. Trickery reveals treachery \u2013 Eden\u2019s misdeed unveils a monstrous murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>None shall speak for the Gods<\/em>\u201d \u2013 the Principle Law precludes organized religion, but not belief.\u00a0 Within Malmaxa are no kings or queens, no machines, no pre-determined social hierarchy, and no laws permitted \u2013 other than those of the Gods themselves. \u00a0Anarchy unleashed, or paradise\u2019s picture?<\/p>\n<p>Thrown into a perpetual, remorseless conflict you soon discover Malmaxa is more about the Seizen than place.\u00a0 Sorely troubled, barbaric, complex and intriguing Malmaxa is, yet it is only the setting for the true tale \u2013 the characters, their motivations, and the choices which shape and define them.<\/p>\n<p>Dreams and desires, dignity and delusion, inevitable demise? \u00a0Face difficult decisions, make impossible choices. \u00a0Search your soul for pity.\u00a0 Feel shame\u2026 and satisfaction when you find none.<\/p>\n<p>Envision Malmaxa, then step inside and experience a world at once astonishingly different, and disturbingly familiar. \u00a0Experience\u2026 enlightenment?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;&lt;&lt;-0-&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Malmaxa means a great deal to me, its author.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/samples\/malmaxa\/beltamars-war\/\">A passion I hope you&#8217;ll feel when reading it<\/a>.\u00a0 With the sales pitch aside here is a further thought I had.<\/p>\n<p>I emailed one of my two surviving brothers today and during my rambling response (I tend to do that&#8230;) I had occasion to say what the tale is to me.\u00a0 An edited excerpt from that email appears below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Malmaxa is principally about a single\u00a0thing. Period.\u00a0 <em><strong>Individual character<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The world within it is little more than a crucible in which characters are shaped and formed. Perhaps one day you will be tempted to read it and will recognize elements of people you know, but expressed and revealed through other eyes.\u00a0 Tell me something, brother of mine, how many sides does a coin have?<br \/>\nMalmaxa is my vision of a perfect world, sparsely populated with imperfect people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To the best of my knowledge he has yet to read a single word, but who knows, someday he might&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Envision a world ruled by six Divine Laws, immutable and absolute. Liaju is about to receive her twelfth marks. 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