Start of Tiamat's Curse: Prologue to Celestial-Terrestrial Warriors

By Beckett Baldwin

Long, long ago, in the super, mega prosperous, mystical, and magical planet simply known as Empyrean, there were two of the “Four Noble Animal Tribes”, the four mightiest, most powerful animal tribes, that co-exist well within the prosperous planet and wield such great, immense, and impressive power and strength, that faced off against each other during the warring period when fame and wealth was everything in the world, and they’d only cared to increase their value and skills and conquest over various lands was grandiose for many Country Lords at the time; they were the “Coco/Lightning Paw”, who were very thick legged mammals, with tan skin, large, sensual structure, and known for their adept and proficiency in lightning fast kicks, and specialize in electricity, against the Hugertars, who were considered to be the ultimate battle vixens, who're curvaceous, voluptuous, athletic, and were battle-adroit and adept with various weapons, and their affinity element is fire. Who were rumored to be the Homo Superiors, from the ruined planet Earth. The two warred against each other, during the “Battle of the Felidae Blood”, a decisive battle, that determined who was going to win between the both of them, and reign as the best. After the intensive battle that they’ve had, the Hugertars returned back to Mt. Felice, to celebrate their win, until a huge event happened to them both that totally changed them forever. During the midst of the warring period, in the aftermath of the Hugertars, there were two great forces that battled against each other and they'd caused a worldwide massive outburst so great that hardly anyone can comprehend, let alone compare as well, from a hundred and thirty years ago.
These two great driving forces were simply the White Tiger clan simply known as the Ken Slayers, the mighty physically enhanced clan that were blessed with raw physical condition (associate with the Earthly (Yin) side of the world) against the Celestial Dragon clan, known as the fire-breathing, element-controlling, flesh-eating creatures that represent the Heavenly (Yang) side of the world, simply known to the world as the Sugaars. These two great forces were so great and powerful, a turbulence of absolute power and meta-physical force that it one time shook the world to its core. Combining their Yin/Yang (Heaven/Earth), power together in order to create a turbulence of absolute power the likes which anybody hasn't seen, and making sure that everything all comes together as well. In the aftermath of all of the fighting, there was a terrifying disappearance, as well as the beginning of a horrible curse that begins to plague all of Empyrean now.Plus, a graphic novel version, of the same story, with more illustrations, of how the fights went down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beckett Baldwin
• Release date: Sep 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370782178

Beckett Baldwin

"Ellison Wright Baldwin" is the pen name of the author of the "Celestial/Terrestrial Warriors" (Tentai/ Chijō no Senshi) and "Saintly/Angelic Warriors" (Seijin/ Tenshi no Senshi) series, Garland J. Bennett, III, who's old writing nickname was "Garbo, The Diverse Writer". Adopted the pen name based on the various writing styles, many literary tropes, as well as with it's characters as well, paying much homage, admiration, and respect to the literary giants of the 20th Century such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who were his main inspiration for his second masterpiece, the "Saintly/Angelic Warriors" series. This is considered to be Garland's first and foremost pen name. In honor of three great literary Black Authors who came before him; Ralph "Ellison", Richard "Wright", and James "Baldwin".For more information of the Author, check out his website athttp://www.celestialgraphics.net

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•  Synopsis:

Long, long ago, in the super, mega prosperous, mystical, and magical planet simply known as Empyrean, there was a lot of advanced geographical, earthly, ecological features, that would be the resurgence for any new race. Which is also powered by the Divine, Celestial, & Heavenly powers, that serve as the bridge to it much further than Earth has. It was there, two of the Four Noble Animal Tribes, the four mightiest, most powerful animal tribes, that co-exist well within the prosperous planet and wield such great, immense, and impressive power and strength, faced off against each other during the warring period. During a time when fame and wealth were everything in the world, and they’d only cared to increase their value and skills and conquest over various lands was grandiose for many Country Lords at the time.

They were the Coco/Lightning Paw, who were very thick legged mammals, with tan skin, large, sensual structure, and known for their adept proficiency in lightning fast kicks, and specialize in electricity, against the Hugertars, who were the ultimate battle vixens, who’re curvaceous, voluptuous, athletic, and were battle-adroit and adept with various weapons, and their affinity element is fire. Who were also rumored to be the Homo Superiors, from the ruined planet Earth; which was destroyed in its World Economy a long time ago, follow by the severe lack of resources and abundance in wealth. Who were killed off by a very dangerous, very deadly, lethal virus of biblical proportions? The two warred against each other, during the Battle of the Felidae Blood, a decisive battle, that determined who was going to win between the both of them, and reign as the best. After the intensive battle that they've had, the Hugertars returned back to Mt. Felice, to celebrate their win, until a huge event happened to them both that totally changed them forever. During the midst of the warring period, in the aftermath of the Hugertars, there were two great forces that battled against each other and they’d caused a worldwide massive outburst so great that hardly anyone can comprehend, let alone compare as well, from a hundred and thirty years ago. 

These two great driving forces were simply the White Tiger clan simply known as the Ken Slayers, the mighty physically enhanced clan that was blessed with raw physical condition (associate with the Earthly (Yin) side of the world), who were also rumored to be the Homo Superiors, next to the Hugertars, who were also said to be a part of the virus outbreak. As well as the rebirth of humanity too. They’d faced against the Celestial Dragon clan, known as the fire-breathing, element-controlling, flesh-eating creatures that represent the Heavenly (Yang) side of the world, simply known to the world as the Sugaars. These two great forces were so great and powerful, a turbulence of absolute power and meta-physical force that it one time shook the world to its core. Combining their Yin/Yang (Heaven/Earth), power together in order to create a turbulence of absolute power the likes which anybody hasn’t seen. In the aftermath of all of the fighting, there was a terrifying disappearance, as well as the beginning of a horrible curse that begins to plague all of the Empyrean now. Plus, a graphic novel version, of the same story, with more illustrations, of how the fights went down.

•  Author’s Thoughts:

Before I decided to get started, with coming up with an A+ material prologue, I’d dug around, found, and read up on this book called the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1, using it in order to use a title, that’s not only universal in its form of the story, but also will fully represent, what the body of the work is to be. On the grounds, that this would also be become something that’ll stand the test of time, and mean a whole lot more, than I’d ever thought it would ever be. I’d also found & started to read another book called Art of War by a guy named Sun Tzu, who was not only a Chinese military strategist of the sixth century B.C. but also the author of the Art of War book as well. The Art of War, is how I’d managed to come up with the Warrior aspect, hence the War, was a dead giveaway. Both of the books that I’ve read, were supposed to be part of some Gutenberg project of converting these printed books into e-books, which didn’t seem like a bad idea at the time. However, since I’m back at this Author’s Thoughts again, I’d say that I was dead on point for creating them as manuscript, as now my work has been transferred towards not only the Amazon’s Kindle Platform, but also the Barnes & Noble’s Nook Platform. Which because of it, not only have I’ve reached a much larger fan base, but also I’d get paid a good 65% and 75% royalty, which is rather unheard of from both sides. I’ve also found a great company through Linkedin named Draft2Digital, to which they were very helpful in not only formatting my first work, but also adding in teasers, a sign-up list, newsletter, and have them distributed in numerous sales channels like iTunes, Inktera, Kobo, 24Symbol, & Scribd. Increasing sales potential from all around, and building a much larger fanbase than I’ve ever thought possible. I’ve even got numerous of my works sold at Greenlight Bookstore, Skylight Bookstore, Eso Won Books, Book Soup Bookstore, and so many other chains all across California that has given me so much of an edge, to the point where I’m being looked at as the symbol of great literature once again. And even so, the Create-Space, which is owned by Amazon, has done many wonders, as I was able to come up with great paperbacks, that’re glossy and shiny covers to look at.  After reading through both of the books, which has inspired me the title of either Celestial-Terrestrial Warriors or even Heavenly-Earthly Fighters, I’d noticed that there was even a hero well within the dark times of war. It helped me greatly come up with a legit protagonist, while I was about to write this prologue. The type of one, that is the controller of not only the Celestial realm, which is the heavenly and divine world, but also the Terrestrial realm, which is the physical world, as well. I imagined Country Lords, all paying tribe members of different class and stature fighting against each other in a jest for not only dominance but to also gain fame, pleasure, and pride among-st their own people. Taking some elements from the Art of War is what helped me write this prologue and make it as interesting as I possibly make it to be; tactics, strategies, and military thinking to overcome the opponent with whatever resources that they might use against their own foes. After all, this was considered to be the glory days as mercenaries and freelancers roam from all around and fought to their heart’s content, or as much as they please. There were also concubines thrown into it, but I wasn’t going to have in their just to be useless through the whole story. After reading more through the Art of War that’s where I decided to go on ahead and write out the plan that these tribe members would do battle against each other and they would raise the worse kind of hell against each other. One of the reasons that I added these tribes to fight each other is because in the book, there were a lot of famous soldiers who were raising the worst kind of hell against each other and won’t stop until they’d vanquished their foes. One of my favorite that was talked about the text, was Wang-tzu, who in the service of the Ch’I and the Sun Wu in the country of the Wu. That’s where it gave me the inspiration to create the Countries based off these Chinese names but make them Felid as well. I also noticed that in the Art of War the word Sun comes up an awful lot so I’d figured that I’d incorporate the people known as the Sun-Ray who’re supposed to be a Highly Technological race of aliens that’re represented by the sun. I’ve also read another book, called Esoteric Cosmology, to better understand the esoteric wisdom, as well as the mystical, the magical, and the arcane, since that’s one of the biggest aspects of world building for the world of Empyrean, and develop my universe for developing it on a higher level, as well as the level of the cosmos that co-exist as well. I’ even started going https://www.powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Esoteric_Nature_Manipulation , to further understand the magical effects of all of the elements, as well as the mystic and arcane, and apply them to both my first ever handwritten novella, and/or my first screenplay, in which I’d started the first one in ‘07. Also, I was also studying https://www.powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Mysticism , in order to further understand the pure form of Magic, which I’m going to go ahead and say this, MAGIC IS NOT EVIL! If it’s Black Magic, that is evil, but magic as a whole, is certainly not evil. Also, since we’re on this subject, I’d took this time to look up http://www.powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Angelic_Magic , to study further about Angelic Magic, the type of supernatural power, that the angels can used. Which is also combined with Divine Force, or Holy Magic, so that it’s used as a means, to explore new, uncharted territory.  So yeah, a lot of the things I’ve looked up, on powerlisting.wikia.com, has proven to be very helpful, as I’ve looked up other interesting things, like Angel Soul, Angel Creation, & Angelization. There was another one I’ve thought of adding into my first work, named Genesis, which is the ability, of creating these lesser or equal beings, to carry out, what you’d like for them to carry out.

They also possessed the most advanced technological weapons and seven of the most powerful treasures that have ever existed as well. The reason the Country Lord that has hired that tribe will not only have an opportunity to prove their skills, but also be rewarded with lots of resources and treasures to go around. The main reason they have them fight is that so the Country Lords don’t have to pay all that money to getting their unskilled men killed out in battle and are in need of some man power to add.

To further elaborate on this even more, I’d first worked on this project, way back in Summer of 2005, where it was a hot, sunny day in San Antonio, TX; I was working as a Health Care Aide at Randolph Human Performances Resources Center, the place was called HAWC (Health and Wellness Center), where I would sit at the front desk, and guide customers, towards the more professional type of Healthcare people, to have them various exercises, and I would continue to stay at the front desk. Hardly doing anything of course. This was back during the heyday time, where they strongly, strongly encourage and have full support, on Health and Wellness, to a T. Meaning, that they’d wanted to make sure that more Americans were becoming healthier in terms of the mind, body, and spirit as well.

I’d remembered getting up early in the morning, like around 4 am, and run with my pops at the base, and we’d had to get our workout in quick, or it would get too warm really quick, during those hot, summer days. Most of the time, since it was pretty quiet and we’d hardly have anyone come in, I’d spent most of my time, writing through the plot outline, for the first of the Celestial-Terrestrial Warriors series, and I’ve already wrote 500+ pages typewritten by the time, I was done. It was also handwritten as well, but this is further proof that the drive to be an Outstanding Writer, grew very strong in me. In these days, I was more so a typewriter, than I was better at my penmanship, as I’d spent many years typing behind a keyboard, since I’d knew it would be most beneficial. Even during the weekend, when others were going to concerts like one that was Eminem and 50 cents, who were very popular back during those times, I’d stay at home in an apartment that I’d used to live in and train with my pops, before I’d went back to my hometown in August, for my Junior Year. It was also in 2005, when Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith came out, and I was pretty stocked to see it, after the much disappointment, of the first two Star Wars prequels, that I’d clearly didn’t enjoy when I was younger...definitely not the first and second. Going back to my Author’s Thoughts, I’ve been not as stocked to see Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan, as I was too busy, with sports, school, and pushing towards having a great writing career. But July ‘08, is when I’d went to go see The Dark Knight directed by the Nolan Brothers, and might I’d say, it was a very impressive movie, with still stands at #4 at Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) to this modern day and age. This is what gave me the inspiration, to create the Flaming Falcon, but as to what character I was going to use it for, was for another time.

During my time down in San Antonio, TX, even when I was going to the gym, training to recover from a leg injury and get back into shape again, after I have to leave my second year during Track and Field season, I saw a lot of military women, who were not only gorgeous, aesthetic, and attractive, but were also athletic, physically fit, and were very trained in combat as well. Most of them had blonde hair or silver hair, but seeing that is what gave me the idea to write about a particular clan that would represent them, in terms of health and wellness, simply known as the Hugertar clan; an all-female clan, that are not only beautiful and attractive, but were also very trained in combat and are always alert as well. They were to be considered a terrifying force to their playing field would be the Hugertar clan, an all-female warrior clan that’re the strongest in the region, which considers them to be greatest battle hellcats ever, as they will go through great lengths to rack in all of the best clients and makes a ridiculous amount of money. The conception behind the Hugertar clan was to not only make them all females with them being descendants to the Ancient Egyptian Women, but to be the descendants of the one simply known as Sekhmet as well. The fierce war goddess that was beautiful but deadly and lethal as well. But to also to make them their own race, a race of Panthers, or connections to the White Tiger, which were said to be legendary creatures who could even challenge a dragon in itself. They have all kinds of characteristics of the stronger species of the Felidae Animal Kingdom, like enhanced senses, speed, and in some cases strength as well; the main reason being is that their chimeras between a human and a lioness, which are said to be extinct.

As well as with some tigress aspects to them, in order to add a little variety and diversity to it as well. They even share some panther like characteristics as they’re widely known and are feared from all around. Their filled with a lot of self-pride and they crush just about anybody that would stand in their way. How they came to be is another story that I’ll get to another time and day. I’ve thought of them and applied them to my prologue, in the aftermath of my assignment, while I was still working as a Healthcare Aide, all while during the George W. Bush era, when things weren’t doing all that well in his upcoming second term...and boy did his approval ratings go down rapidly by the time he’d left office.

For now, they’re just in there for the sake of adding more sensation to the narrative that I have so far. They’d faced off against numerous other people who dared tried to stand in their way and they were the driving force amongst all other clans that ever tried to get their way. Basically, the name of the game overall in Empyrean is two words only: Natural Selection. Survival of the Fittest is the name of it all; the strong traits will survive and the weak traits will perish. All for the sake of Evolution and for what it stands for as well. They are recognized as the strongest of the region and anyone who ever faced off against them would have to give it all they got in order to do any kind of damage to them. They even defeated their most agile and vilest of opponents, which makes them more widely revered and everyone around that era will know of their names as well. They provide the best kinds of services to their clients which are the Country Lords that pay them lots of money for performing the most intensive, most rigorous and sexual kind of performance that they expect from the lovely and beautiful tribe. They were inspired by Chapter#12 of Art of War which involves them striking by fire, which would be their will and desire to fight. But what really inspired me to create the Hugertar clan was taking the concept of Humans and Tigress and adding them together, in order to create a deadly clan of battle vixens that’re not only super beautiful and foxy, but also have mastered various types of weapons and even have made themselves very proficient in hand-to-hand combat and their entire physiology even matches them as well.  In order to better understand and have a better construct of the whole Hugertar clan, I’d decided to read up on Ancient Egyptians by looking into the Handbook of the Egyptian Mythology and make sure that I’d learn more about