ANTHEMICRONICON: BOOK OF AGES (AMERICAN IDOL RPF), [PG-13] - PROLOGUE & CAST OF CHARACTERS
ANTHEMICRONICON - THE BOOK OF THE AGES
(AMERICAN IDOL RPF), [PG-13]
PROLOGUE & CAST OF CHARACTERS
PROLOGUE:
In which the Chronomicon introduces itself: the history of songcasting, the beginning of the world, and the Old Ones.
~ From the Chronomicon
In the beginning, there was the rhythm of the wide abyss, lacing the sprawling void with its pulse. Ages later - as time without form might be counted - strings entered the spaces: shimmering cords of yearning, threading the thudding beat on a silver chain.
Then a voice lifted in a clamoring, birthing song - roiling seas and skies, wide continents, the vein and heart-rock of the land, were sung into being from the world's cadenced core.
And the Old Ones rose out of the seas and skies, claiming the wide earth, stepping out of sunken R'lyeh beneath the cold seas, out of the vast plains of Leng.
They were many: Queen of the Continent, the Dark Tsar, the Great Bear of the Plains, to name but a few. They were magnificent and multitudinous; their strides were endless under the gibbous moon.
They ruled the Earth for millennia. When men came, they bent their knees in supplication.
Who knows what occurred after? The moon and stars shifted their songs. The Old Ones, the Grand Ones, no longer bestrode the continents. They took to the seas, sinking below the brimy depths, leaving their beloved people bereft.
The People cried out for their masters, but they were secreted away in their distant fastness and did not respond.
Men's memories are short. They busied themselves constructing roads and buildings, discerned their own way to channel the world's secret heart-song. The old ways, the circinate channels into the interstices of time, the stories of the Masters, they locked away, in grimoires such as this, the book that you hold in your hands: the Book of the Ages.
Men, even those schooled in the old knowledge, forget.
But remember this: in the vastness beyond the world, in their house at sunken R'yleh, the Old Ones lie, not dead but dreaming.
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DAVID COOK, songcaster and leader of THE ANTHEMIC, HOUSE NINETEEN’s first field band.
THE GUILD, which regulates all Houses and licensed songcasters in the American States, has asked House Nineteen to investigate into President McKinley’s assassination at the 1901 World’s Fair.
Of course, Cook hasn't bargained on the Anthemic getting in the middle of an ancient battle between ANARCHISTS and ANACHRONISTS, or on falling in love.
DAVID ARCHULETA, journeyman. Fresh off the train from Utah.
He's discovered half of a long-fabled songbook, the Chronomicon, with songs that can pierce the veil of time and other things.
Everybody wants to get their hands on this book - the other Houses in the Guild, the Anarchists, the Anachronists - but he's delivered the Chronomicon to House Nineteen.
An old-fashioned lad, he distrusts the country’s industrialization and feels out of place in the City of York.
NEAL TIEMANN, the Anthemic’s powerhouse Second. Plays strings.
Hails from a well-born Oklahoma family, and doubles up as occasional debutante escort. Sadly, as licensed songcasters entail their estates to their House and aren’t permitted to marry, the Tiemann line might have no heirs.
This isn’t a problem for Neal, though, who’s found happiness with the Anthemic’s Third.
ANDREW SKIB, the Anthemic’s Third and its second stringcaster.
A not-so-secret Anglophile, he lives with technically-minded Tiemann in their rooms in House Nineteen, amid finery and Neal's experiments gone awry.
MONTAGUE ANDERSON, the Anthemic’s bass-caster.
He’s been a fieldcaster for 15 years and knows all the licensed songcasters as well as the unlicensed illegals that hang out in the Bowery and unlawfully ply their trade.
KYLE PEEK, the Anthemic’s young drum-caster.
His role is to ground the songcasting beat - the Anthemic jack in to the rhythm of his drum platform.
He’s still a virgin and new to the ways of the Big City.
Captain ADAM LAMBERT, Broadway showman and the unofficial leader of the ANARCHISTS in York City.
The Anarchists are accused of masterminding McKinley's assassination, though they claim it wasn't them.
They are sworn to uphold a classless society, through violent means if necessary, and to protect America from unnamed evil beyond its seas.
Captain CHRISTOPHE DAUGHTRY from Saint-Michel; BLAKE LEWISON.
Both ANACHRONISTS, old foes of Anarchists, they are sworn to protect the President and the other Royals, and to save mankind from the perils of war.
CONSTANTINE MAROULIS from the famed Bowery bar the Silo, and BORIS BICE, who lives under Grant's Tomb.
Anachronists perhaps, but are they friends or foes of Cook and Archuleta?
Captain KRISTOPHER VON AHLEN from Munich.
The mysterious guardian of the Anachronists' Silver Key. Who is he, and what is his target?
Prologue & Cast of Characters : Chapter One : Chapter Two : Chapter Three : Chapter Four : Epilogue, Footnotes & Full Cast list (spoilers)
(AMERICAN IDOL RPF), [PG-13]
PROLOGUE & CAST OF CHARACTERS
PROLOGUE:
In which the Chronomicon introduces itself: the history of songcasting, the beginning of the world, and the Old Ones.
~ From the Chronomicon
In the beginning, there was the rhythm of the wide abyss, lacing the sprawling void with its pulse. Ages later - as time without form might be counted - strings entered the spaces: shimmering cords of yearning, threading the thudding beat on a silver chain.
Then a voice lifted in a clamoring, birthing song - roiling seas and skies, wide continents, the vein and heart-rock of the land, were sung into being from the world's cadenced core.
And the Old Ones rose out of the seas and skies, claiming the wide earth, stepping out of sunken R'lyeh beneath the cold seas, out of the vast plains of Leng.
They were many: Queen of the Continent, the Dark Tsar, the Great Bear of the Plains, to name but a few. They were magnificent and multitudinous; their strides were endless under the gibbous moon.
They ruled the Earth for millennia. When men came, they bent their knees in supplication.
Who knows what occurred after? The moon and stars shifted their songs. The Old Ones, the Grand Ones, no longer bestrode the continents. They took to the seas, sinking below the brimy depths, leaving their beloved people bereft.
The People cried out for their masters, but they were secreted away in their distant fastness and did not respond.
Men's memories are short. They busied themselves constructing roads and buildings, discerned their own way to channel the world's secret heart-song. The old ways, the circinate channels into the interstices of time, the stories of the Masters, they locked away, in grimoires such as this, the book that you hold in your hands: the Book of the Ages.
Men, even those schooled in the old knowledge, forget.
But remember this: in the vastness beyond the world, in their house at sunken R'yleh, the Old Ones lie, not dead but dreaming.
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
DAVID COOK, songcaster and leader of THE ANTHEMIC, HOUSE NINETEEN’s first field band.
THE GUILD, which regulates all Houses and licensed songcasters in the American States, has asked House Nineteen to investigate into President McKinley’s assassination at the 1901 World’s Fair.
Of course, Cook hasn't bargained on the Anthemic getting in the middle of an ancient battle between ANARCHISTS and ANACHRONISTS, or on falling in love.
DAVID ARCHULETA, journeyman. Fresh off the train from Utah.
He's discovered half of a long-fabled songbook, the Chronomicon, with songs that can pierce the veil of time and other things.
Everybody wants to get their hands on this book - the other Houses in the Guild, the Anarchists, the Anachronists - but he's delivered the Chronomicon to House Nineteen.
An old-fashioned lad, he distrusts the country’s industrialization and feels out of place in the City of York.
NEAL TIEMANN, the Anthemic’s powerhouse Second. Plays strings.
Hails from a well-born Oklahoma family, and doubles up as occasional debutante escort. Sadly, as licensed songcasters entail their estates to their House and aren’t permitted to marry, the Tiemann line might have no heirs.
This isn’t a problem for Neal, though, who’s found happiness with the Anthemic’s Third.
ANDREW SKIB, the Anthemic’s Third and its second stringcaster.
A not-so-secret Anglophile, he lives with technically-minded Tiemann in their rooms in House Nineteen, amid finery and Neal's experiments gone awry.
MONTAGUE ANDERSON, the Anthemic’s bass-caster.
He’s been a fieldcaster for 15 years and knows all the licensed songcasters as well as the unlicensed illegals that hang out in the Bowery and unlawfully ply their trade.
KYLE PEEK, the Anthemic’s young drum-caster.
His role is to ground the songcasting beat - the Anthemic jack in to the rhythm of his drum platform.
He’s still a virgin and new to the ways of the Big City.
Captain ADAM LAMBERT, Broadway showman and the unofficial leader of the ANARCHISTS in York City.
The Anarchists are accused of masterminding McKinley's assassination, though they claim it wasn't them.
They are sworn to uphold a classless society, through violent means if necessary, and to protect America from unnamed evil beyond its seas.
Captain CHRISTOPHE DAUGHTRY from Saint-Michel; BLAKE LEWISON.
Both ANACHRONISTS, old foes of Anarchists, they are sworn to protect the President and the other Royals, and to save mankind from the perils of war.
CONSTANTINE MAROULIS from the famed Bowery bar the Silo, and BORIS BICE, who lives under Grant's Tomb.
Anachronists perhaps, but are they friends or foes of Cook and Archuleta?
Captain KRISTOPHER VON AHLEN from Munich.
The mysterious guardian of the Anachronists' Silver Key. Who is he, and what is his target?
Prologue & Cast of Characters : Chapter One : Chapter Two : Chapter Three : Chapter Four : Epilogue, Footnotes & Full Cast list (spoilers)