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Ground Zero: Legend of the Wulong
“In
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off
throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows.
“I am great Ozymandias,”
saith the stone,
“The King of kings: this mighty city
shows
The wonders of my hand.” The city’s
gone!
Naught but the leg remaining to
disclose
The sight of that forgotten
We wonder, and some hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when through the
wilderness
Where
He meets some fragment huge, and stops
to guess
What wonderful, but unrecorded, race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.”
Ground Zero: Legend Of The Wulong
is a planned animation
series set an undisclosed length of time (hinted that
it is over
a thousand years) after a mysterious ‘hyper-war’,
which ‘turned
all the great cities to glass’, ‘burnt up all the good
grass’, rendered a
third of the Earth uninhabitable, and ‘scorched the
sky’. We
are left to infer that this was a tactical nuclear
holocaust. But
despite the horrifying similarity of these events to
the
Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation, the
earth
endures, albeit
crippled, and many have fallen into disbelief.
Only one great city remains – ‘Nihon’, which calls
itself
Infinity
have seen her burnt
up by fire. She is the last stronghold of
civilisation in
a world inhabited by only a few million filthy
barbarians who scrape a
living in feudal-level villages, trying
to coax the
almost dead topsoil into producing crops. But is it
feudal-level, or
feudal-ERA? Why is it said that Infinity Babylon
is ‘fleeing back
in time’ to escape the hyper-war which is still
raging somewhere in
space and time? Exactly which real-world
city Nihon
represents is never revealed, but it could be
its limited
resources cannot possibly support the entire planet,
devise an ingenious
plot to ensure the unwashed masses will
not come beating
at the city’s gates – they will persuade the people
that Nihon is the
true
which mortals cannot
look upon and survive. They send out their
agents – the
Wulong/Dark Dragons – amongst the people,
pretending to be gods and
demons, priests and wizards, using
advanced technology
(contained within exo-suits which allow
them to travel
safely through the rad zones) to convince the
common people that
they had godlike powers. Some succumb
to the temptation
of worship by the people and ‘go native’,
often becoming so
deceived that they believe their own
façade of deity.
Others find the entire practise of the ‘mask of
godhood’
repulsive, and roam the
land, seeking to convince the other
Wulong that the
divinity cult is a damnable heresy
masquerading as
a necessity… or kill them if they
will not repent.
STATUS: As of (28/08/05), I have prepared a number of character
sketches, primarily for anti-hero Psalter. I have also
written a
number of treatises exploring the economic, military,
civilian,
and religious
aspects of life in Nihon Infinity Babylon
CHARACTERS:
Main Characters:
Shau’ul – The main
character. He has become dissatisfied with the mask of godhood, and now seeks
to expose his fellow Wulong.
Cephas – A Wulong who is trying to find his son in the Wasteland
outside Nihon.
Tomas – Starts
off an ‘evil’ Wulong who accepts worship from the
people, but soon joins Shau’ul and Cephas in their mission to expose the false ‘gods’ of
Nihon.
Psalter – A troubled young Exile from Wulong who has come to believe he is the God of death.
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