Millennium

"If there are infinite dimensions, then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities, we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent" ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich. In the distant future mankind has achieved a multitude of technological milestones, created a method of FTL known as ‘Millennium Drives’ and have been discovered by intelligent life from outside of the Milky Way Galaxy. Unbeknownst to the mortal realm a young woman from another realm has risen from the ashes of her tyrannical ‘Overlords’ and will soon leave her mark upon the universe. Centuries in the future within a realm unknown to mortals, a malicious war wages on between the Celestial kingdoms of Paradia. There are the oppressive God Collective; descendants of an ancient Celestial race who are committed to purging the Five Realms of the self-righteous and divine Goddesses. Both factions have not openly declared war upon another, but instead have initiated multiple proxy wars against each other. These proxy wars have been fought by the Monoliths; a Celestial hive mind race that numbered somewhere in the billions with a strong warrior culture, they pledged their loyalty to the God Collective. The Goddesses were too passive to raise an army of their own, instead they relied on a secret order of Mystics they had trained. These Mystics were few in number but were tactically superior to the Monoliths who unlike the Mystics couldn’t harness the power of the Ember; the Ember was a living cosmic essence that resided within the Realms and was responsible for mortals and celestials possessing supernatural abilities. After a millennium of war and casualties in the hundreds of millions, the Collective and Goddesses called a cease fire and signed a treaty which stated the two sides would govern over Paradia together. The Goddesses were reluctant at first, but after concluding that the Collective’s military was exhausted and with their own forces dwindling, they signed. The Goddesses chose to sign the treaty because two of their council members had foreseen events within the future that would cause war to plague Paraida again. Only this time they would have an army led by a mysterious warrior whose face was shrouded in darkness, with neither council member able to identify them. So, the Goddesses stayed vigilant as they ruled Paradia alongside the Collective as they waited for their time to come. That time would come almost two thousand years later during a time of relative calm throughout the realms. Over the millennia the Collective used their armies to oppress the populace of their respective kingdoms. This oppression came in the form of stringent workforce directives, children being enforced into hard labor conditions, an increase in taxes and fear being used to break the will of the citizens. But all of this would be unseen by the Collective as their greatest threat had just been discovered. Viennashal Iminz, a Goddess of the High Council and supreme ruler of Galaxia Prime has been keeping her daughter Alicia hidden away within the kingdom for years unbeknownst to the Collective, but this young Celestial has the blood of mortals coursing through her veins. Viennashal attempted to keep her daughter’s existence a secret, but the Collective had spies everywhere. With her daughter’s existence now known Viennashal will stop at nothing to guarantee her daughters safety; even if it means going to war. Because if the visions were true than her offspring would be the undoing of the Collective.

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Hello my fellow writers/readers and thanks to all who have read this book over the past two & half years. The novel has undergone minor changes multiple times before but there's a new change coming that will benefit the novel and series going forward. For those who may have liked the book in its current version and for those who by chance didn't, there is another version of the book coming in 2021. For the past several months I have been working out the overall story arch of the series; after much deliberation I decided to go back & revise/retool certain aspects of the main plot-line and do a considerable amount of World-building. I chose to do this because I started writing this whole series back in 2006-2007 and I was only in my late teens at the time, to me personally the book didn't really read like it was written from a mature/experienced writer.

So, since I've been taking courses for Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University for some time now I've gained a lot of experience as an author. Because of this I felt that the only way to truly be able to continue to write the series that I've spent half my life working on was to go back and write the story the way I envisioned back when I was a teenage, except that now I have the experience and skills needed to tackle this. Now, with me saying there's a new version or what I've been calling a 'Definitive Edition' on my social media pages doesn't mean that 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' is being scraped, you can still purchase it if you choose at @Smashwords.com/books/view/893010. This new version of the book is: 1. Going to be the same story that's in 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' right now & 2. This new version will be in the category of Epic Fantasy, whereas the current version is more YA themed.

As of now 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' has a 63,620 word count, which puts it in the category of YA Fantasy. This new version titled 'Millennium' will have around a 110,000 word count. 'Millennium' will open up completely different vs how 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' does. 'Dawn' throws the reader into the middle of the story and has the reader following multiple time lines that Catch up to each other as the plot moves forward, 'Millennium' however opens with the 'inciting incident'/'call to adventure' within the opening chapters whereas 'Dawn' doesn't, but instead has you on a quest with the main characters to figure out what caused the inciting incident only to show it later on in the book. This wasn't initially how I intended to tell the story. Initially 'Dawn' was just a Novella that I wrote as a companion piece to the first book that I wrote in 2010 which is now a soon to published spin-off novel of 'Millennium'. Unfortunately, I caught a very, very bad case of writers block; the weird thing was that I could write other projects just not anything Gatekeepers related. So I ended up writing origin stories for multiple characters as weekly assignments for my creative writing intro course at the time, ironically all those characters became either main characters or secondary characters within 'Dawn' a year or so later.

So to sum it all up, 'Millennium' is the broader/more immersive version of 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers'. Its the same story, but more descriptive, more world building, and the main character 'Alicia Iminz' will be written from first person perspective instead of third person. I decided that to give readers a more immersive feel to the book it would be best to do this. Plus its not fun writing everyone in third person and with this new format for writing the main character you the 'reader' will be able to know who your supposed to care about, you'll be able to get inside the head of the main character and gain an understanding of the world the she and the rest of the cast inhabit.

The first 5% of 'Millennium' will be available here on Wattpad as well as The series' Official Tumblr Page which will be fully up & running by New Years, the free sample chapters have been updated and will be updated again once the final manuscript has been by Smashwords.

'Millennium' is available for pre-order now on Smashwords. use the link below to pre-order your copy --> --> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1052388

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