First season of Hero Historia wraps up

Jericho Rising, the first season of my historical superhero web series, has wrapped up. Here’s a postscript.

Neolithic Superheroes

Jericho Rising tells the story of Clay, a hunter from the Bear Clan, a group of semi-nomads living on and around Smoke Mountain. The son of the clan’s Champion, he and his brother Broad survive when a foreign tribe invade. The pair leave for new lives in the city of Jericho, where Clay becomes the city’s Champion, creating a pattern that will echo through the ages.

Apparently history means making stuff up

I love research. Love it. But unfortunately we know next to nothing about the people who lived in and around Jericho 10,000 years ago, at the time the story takes place. We can intuit a little from what little we know about other neolithic people of the era. We don’t even know what they called the city, or even themselves – archaeology refers to them as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.

That’s probably not the term they used.

So I had quite a bit of latitude in making up their culture and attitudes, even before you get into the alternate-history aspects of the setting.

What’s next for Hero Historia

I’ve given the collected text of the Jericho Rising story arc to a beta reader, and once she’s done with it I’ll be publishing it as an ebook that includes a few extras not published as part of the serial itself. A side-chapter, some fake historical documents, that kind of thing.

I’m currently plotting the next Hero Historia story arc. All I can tell you right now is that it deals with Sumeria, Ziggarauts, and divinity. There’s a lot more we know about the Sumerians, so there’s a lot more research involved, but that’s fine with me.

I like research.

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