When Khassid Speaks…

You’ll often hear me say Khassid speaks to me. I have no words to explain it. Really. I mean, I know a fantasy world isn’t having a full-blown conversation with me or is literally whispering in my ear. What I mean, however, is that sometimes I sit here and I write or conceptualize something and something inside of me picks up on a pattern or something. I don’t know what.

Then my brain does what it has done for the past several decades: pattern recognition. It starts connecting the dots and before I know it, I’m sitting here staring at the computer in complete shock because something happened behind-the-scenes as I as putting things together that I didn’t realize until much, much later.

I’ll give an example…

So we have Aeru, Antaz and Sujaz and The Wild. In a previous blog entry under The Making of Khassid, I spoke in depth about how they were created and my rationale behind creating these.

Maybe a year later, after I’d had all the deities situated and named, I realized that these four predated belief gods and coined the term for them “The Elder Four”. That seemed reasonable. I was happy with it.

The thing that blew my mind was that I didn’t realize just how appropriate this was nor the ramifications for Khassid as a whole. I’ll admit, I should have known but I was so busy writing and recalling stuff that it didn’t dawn on me. The analogy of Captain Planet I made elsewhere was so on point. The fact that the Elder Four are also Primordial Gods of Creation snuck in there too.

In a nutshell, I created mommy/daddy god and Their twin gods then life came in and suddenly…I had the foundation of Creation for Khassid.

And I didn’t even realize it until I realized it.

And that’s what I mean when I say Khassid speaks to me.

It’s not that I’m being told what to do.

It’s that something is already there—and I don’t see it until Khassid decides I’m ready to see it.