My Hyperfixation Zone (tm)

Welcome to my new blog!!! After a long long time I finally wanted to have a nice anonymous blog where I can post my own cringe (with no one I know IRL involved). So that’s what this is.

I will be posting about: paleo art, some fandom stuff, pretty landscapes, history, Classics (Greece! Rome!), and most of all, WRITING! Especially my biggest writing project:

Ennead (see Ennead Masterpost)

Aka YWBaS, aka Dewdrops, aka Eden NA, aka my Really Big Hyperfixation.

What is the Ennead? See post here (link will be edited later). All related posts will be tagged #Ennead along w other stuff.

I have to assume based on the (Japanese sounding) name that Saito is also connected to the slavemonks of Hachiman, or something similar?

And sorry for the lack of asks these past few weeks; school has been hell…

Thanks for asking !!!! And no worries ever !!!

So glad you noticed that. Yes, Jata is a Hunter — one of a pair, probably the most feared and praised couple in the Nine. They are essentially bardic assassins, combining elements of IRL Aztec ritual warfare and West-African griot traditions. If you have any reason to believe they’ve been sent after you, you’re already screwed. But on the bright side, you know you’ll get a good show before you fight one-on-one to the death!

Saito-go Sanemori is one of the four main characters of the novel. You’re right to point out Saito’s Kyon name, but he’s not a slavemonk. I can’t spoil things too much, but by the time we meet him, Saito is a translator and cavalry officer for the Sassan contingent aiding Yoshinaka Kiso’s rebellion. Though a native Kyon, he was captured, enslaved, and renamed as a child and raised in Sassan as a slave and then gladiator for the Egibi clan of New Babylon. This will be explained in more detail in Apposition 10 “Telefuture” (one of the short stories in the “Enneadic Appositions” collection).

Writing a history

Composing your song: An epic; An encomium; A love song

Performing the tragedy

Performing the comedy

Making a shrine

Drinking from their favorite mug

Visiting their grave

Maintaining their artifacts

Toasting to their memory

Honoring their wishes (if you so wish)

“Tell me,” Lord Kiso said, “which of these stones is most important?”

“The largest,” the girl answered too quickly, “around whom others build.”

But the great leader shook his head. So, “the keystone,” the girl pointed to a stone, the size of her calloused fist, “without whom those above would fall apart.”