My guide, Tasiir, has been telling me since first we began traveling together that I keep my nose too deep in the pages of this journal. At first I thought he simply didn't understand the importance of recording my thoughts in the moment but I caught him reading this book once when I had fallen asleep. I asked for his thoughts and he told me that I had missed the point of everything.
I realize now that he was right, hence why this is the first section of the book. I tore out everything from before now and threw them into the air. Finally I took the time to watch and listen as I watched my work - and my usual way of thinking - fly away with the wind.— Takalia, A Life of Wind and Song
Impetus
The idea for this work came to
Takalia while he was working on
Folk Stories of Grara, Volume I. During his travels to remote regions of
Grara he heard about the people who lived in moving tents carried by the wind; he was later disappointed to learn that the tents were not actually carried by the wind but by horses at the direction of the seasons.
The Rough Draft
Takalia scrapped half of his journal's worth of notes during his time in the
Orthlands. His time on the plains and with his guide
Tasiir and the other
Orth they spent time with changed his view on how stories should be told. There is a place for standard academic texts of course, but the
Orth are a people with many stories to tell, stories passed down for generations back to a time long before the oldest text that even
Jamaira holds.
Stub Article
This article is just a stub for now and will be expanded upon later.
Old Article
This article was written in the past and does not meet my current standards for any number of article quality, layout, or content.
In-Progress Article
This article is being worked on, perhaps not at this very moment, but it is being worked on.
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