History - interesting times?

[cloudy]

Just out of interest - have you read the Dune series? Some of the protagonists come from an ancient order of women, who have trained themselves to access all the knowledge of their ancestors in the female line. Slightly similar to your idea, although a lot less broad in scope.

You're a brave woman Cloudy. I wouldn't fancy this as a challenge.

The Earl

yep, read every one of them.

I know it's huge, but the idea holds a fascination for me, for some reason.

 

[Weird Harold]

The modern protag feels "drawn" to certain places, so she's traveling at the moment. As she reaches each destination, I tell the story of that ancestor.

Here's the transition for the first segment:

I think that will work, it neatly links each regression to the main protagonist.

Is she aware they are her ancestors, or will she figure it out at some point? That's the only hole I see in the continuity -- your example would work just as well for an unrelated "psychometrician" as a descendant.

 

[cloudy]

I think that will work, it neatly links each regression to the main protagonist.

Is she aware they are her ancestors, or will she figure it out at some point? That's the only hole I see in the continuity -- your example would work just as well for an unrelated "psychometrician" as a descendant.

I haven't figured out how yet, but she'll eventually know that they're hers.

 

[Weird Harold]

I haven't figured out how yet, but she'll eventually know that they're hers.

Finding a logical personal link to that first 44 BC would be tough. Are you going to go in chronological order? Perhaps next could be an episode from a closer ancestor while she's still in the UK -- a visit to a graveyard and a headstone from WWI or WW II and a name she'd recognise?

 

[cloudy]

Finding a logical personal link to that first 44 BC would be tough. Are you going to go in chronological order? Perhaps next could be an episode from a closer ancestor while she's still in the UK -- a visit to a graveyard and a headstone from WWI or WW II and a name she'd recognise?

yes, planning on going in chronological order, and she'll eventually end up back in the states at Wounded Knee.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Cloudy - PM on it's way. I do realise it sounds as if i am applying for a job

Here if you need anything

Nirvana
xxx

 

[impressive]

yep, read every one of them.

I know it's huge, but the idea holds a fascination for me, for some reason.

Check out Piers Anthony's Geodyssey series, too. It is somewhat similar (and very interesting).

 

[cloudy]

Check out Piers Anthony's Geodyssey series, too. It is somewhat similar (and very interesting).

That'll go on the wishlist, thanks!

 

[oggbashan]

Anglesey, Yns Mon:

This was the final stronghold of the Druids until they were massacred by the Romans in about 90AD. Where they were massacred? Not sure. Some say on Holy Mountain on Holyhead Island. There are prehistoric hut circles there. Anglesey also had extensive copper mines and was trading widely across Europe during the Bronze Age. The Romans mechanised the mining and smelting of copper after they conquered Anglesey. Anglesey and Holy Island have many legends about the times before Christianity.

The Irish Christians had started bringing Christianity back to England and Wales before St Augustine landed in Kent in 597AD. Eventually the difference in their rites, including the date of Easter, had to be sorted out at the Council of Whitby in 664. It is an indication of how fast Christianity had spread that only 65 years after St Augustine landed the two versions met.

Og (born in Caer Gybi)

 

[cloudy]

Anglesey, Yns Mon:

This was the final stronghold of the Druids until they were massacred by the Romans in about 90AD. Where they were massacred? Not sure. Some say on Holy Mountain on Holyhead Island. There are prehistoric hut circles there. Anglesey also had extensive copper mines and was trading widely across Europe during the Bronze Age. The Romans mechanised the mining and smelting of copper after they conquered Anglesey. Anglesey and Holy Island have many legends about the times before Christianity.

The Irish Christians had started bringing Christianity back to England and Wales before St Augustine landed in Kent in 597AD. Eventually the difference in their rites, including the date of Easter, had to be sorted out at the Council of Whitby in 664. It is an indication of how fast Christianity had spread that only 65 years after St Augustine landed the two versions met.

Og (born in Caer Gybi)

Thanks, Og!

The more I read about Anglesey, the more fascinated I am with it. Would love to see it one day.

 

[cloudy]

Anyone have a title for this Odyssey?

I so suck at titles, damn it.

 

[kendo1]

Missing Ages.



My latest is going in a similar way. The main characters will be moving through history in later chapters. It starts in 1703 AD in Scotland.