Tales and Real life. Don't ask which is whichTraveler Tales
The Vordan 1 Storyteller Tales: Happy Hill
The Vordan 2 Storyteller Tales: Pumpkin Seeds
The Vordan 3 Storyteller Tales: Moira
The Vordan 4 Storyteller Tales: The Big Bad Wolv
The Vordan 5 Storyteller Tales: A Worm’s Tale
The Vordan 6 Storyteller Tales: The Dawg Days of Summer
The Vordan 7 Storyteller Tales: Gaian
The Vordan 8 Storyteller Tales: Nazi Hunters
The Vordan 9 Storyteller Tales: Werewolf
A brief Introduction:
In the deep past, the old Titan Chronos had a terrifying vision of the end of the world. Even then he knew it was only a matter of time before his own children rose up and cast him down into the deepest pit of Tartarus. But before that happened, he worked tirelessly to create what he could in order to prevent his terrible vision from becoming reality. One of those creations was the Kairos, the watcher over history, the Traveler in Time—a “god” of time to follow after him.
Made out of human flesh and blood, the Traveler was designed to inhabit two bodies at the same time, one male and one female with only one consciousness. This proved too difficult for such a young consciousness, so it was decided to take turns, and in this manner the Traveler has been trapped to live one lifetime after another throughout history, sometimes as a man and sometimes as a woman.
The curious thing about the Traveler is he (or she) is not bound by time in the way we are. Generally, after the personality and all are set and well tied to a particular time and culture—often around puberty – the time walls that separate the Traveler’s various lives come tumbling down and the Traveler is able to remember and even form a mental link with other lifetimes. Thus the current life of the Traveler is strongly connected to a Greek Princess from 228 BC, a Macedonian warrior who fought side by side with Alexander the Great, and a Doctor, a product of the University of Paris, who got her baptism in surgery on the Russian front in the first World War…
Most curious is the Traveler’s ability to “remember” future lives, though this may be what old Chronos had in mind: That in remembering the future, in knowing how history turns out, the Traveler would be tempted to do everything possible to be sure it turned out the way it was written.
What the gods did not anticipate, however, was eventually the link between the Traveler’s various lifetimes would become strong enough to where she (or he) could actually, physically trade places through time. Thus a young woman about to be slaughtered by a mercenary would suddenly vanish and be replaced by that fully armed and armored Macedonian warrior who was more than a match for the hapless mercenary… But that is another story.
In our time, the Traveler is a gentleman, Glen, called the Storyteller by his other lives, not as an honorific but because it is his job to write down the many stories of the many lifetimes of the Traveler. This is not an easy job, mostly because Mnemosyne (the Greek goddess of memory) messed with his memories in the deep past… But as I say, that is another story.
When the Traveler is needed (when history is threatened) Glen’s memories return for the emergency—sometimes rushing back all at once in a way that can incapacitate for a time. When the emergency is passed, though, he forgets again, but never entirely. He remains haunted by dreams, visions, daydreams…
The following, on this blog, is the record of fairly recent events. It includes a number of stories from earlier years which he recalled and recorded before the current need was resolved and he forgot again and returned to his troubled life of never quite remembering but never quite being left alone.
