Yep, catapillars. Anyway, one of our chronological tethers has been The Great Goblin War. “Was that before or after the Great Goblin War?” Oh, that had to be after the Great Goblin War because the Ogre Grim moved the Crystal Tree past the Dragon Lakes right in the middle of that dark time.

We were constantly refering to The Great Goblin War (from here on out it’s TGGW) and one day, while we were exploring a tunnel beneath one of the Dragon Lakes and fighting off on inexplicably large bridge Troll—a bridge troll in a CAVE!—I was asked if this tunnel was dug by the Goblins during TGGW. It was at that very moment or maybe after the obligatory two second light bulb over brain daydream stare that I realized we had never really explored the who’s, what’s, hows or whys of TGGW.

Well, I obviously had enough criteria, an arsenal of made up monsters, an expansive landscape and a massive hjole of missing history in our imaginary world. I could have left the hole there or filled it in with things I probobly shouldn’t have done or maybe even ignored it completely. But I won’t. I like stories a lot more than I like holes and a hell of a lot more than I like stories with holes in them.

That’s the way the idea for this particular project came about. While I let the idea sit I like to stick some kindling under it by pulling out my sketchbook and doodling just about anything. I let my doodles circle the little embers starting under the idea. My mind has the idea for the story, no beginning, no end, just the vast void clutched with a choas of possibles. Now how to put order to that mess….