GROUND ZERO: LEGEND OF THE WULONG -
"In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desart knows.
"I am great Ozymandias," saith the stone,
"The King of kings: this mighty city shows
The wonders of my hand." The city's gone!
Naught but the leg remaining to disclose
The sight of that forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when through the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the wolf in chase,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What wonderful, but unrecorded, race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place."
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Ground Zero: Legend Of The Wulong is a planned animation series set an undisclosed length of time (hinted that it is over a thousand years) after a mysterious 'hyper-war', which 'turned all the great cities to glass', 'burnt up all the good grass', rendered a third of the Earth uninhabitable, and 'scorched the sky'. We are left to infer that this was a nuclear holocaust. But despite the horrifying similarity of these events to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation, the earth endures, albeit crippled, and many have fallen into disbelief.
Only one great city remains - 'Nihon', which calls herself Infinity Babylon, because she endures when prophecy should have seen her burnt up by fire (exactly which real-world city Nihon represents is never revealed, but it could be Jerusalem, Rome, London, Brussels, or even Rio De Janeiro). She is the last stronghold of civilisation in a world inhabited by only a few million filthy barbarians who scrape a living in feudal-level villages, trying to coax the almost dead topsoil into producing crops. But is it feudal-level, or feudal-ERA? Why is it said that Infinity Babylon is 'fleeing back in time' to escape the hyper-war which is still raging somewhere in space and time? The people of Nihon, knowing that their limited resources cannot possibly support the entire planet, devise an ingenious plot to ensure the unwashed masses will not come beating at the city's gates - they will persuade the people that Nihon is the true Mount Olympus - a home of the gods, upon which mortals cannot look and survive. They send out their agents - the Wulong (lit. Dark Dragons) - amongst the people, pretending to be gods and demons, priests and wizards, using advanced technology (contained within exo-suits which allow them to travel safely through the rad zones) to convince the common people that they have godlike powers. Some succumb to the temptation of worship by the people and 'go native', often becoming so deceived that they believe their own facade of deity.
Others find the entire practise of the 'mask of godhood' repulsive, and roam the land, seeking to convince the other Wulong that the divinity cult is a damnable heresy masquerading as a necessity... or kill them if they will not repent.
STATUS: As of (24/12/08), I have prepared a number of character sketches, primarily for anti-hero Psalter. I have also written a number of treatises exploring the economic, military, civilian, and religious aspects of life in Nihon Infinity Babylon.
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27/06/06: Again, pardon my dust. As with --Falling As They Might-- I've basically just copy-pasted this from my --old page-- on --1asphost.com-- . I'll put up more information on Ground Zero - Legend Of The Wulong as and when I get the time (or rather, when I can be bothered).
CHARACTERS:
Main Characters:
Shau'ul - The main character. He has become dissatisfied with the mask of godhood, and now seeks to expose his fellow Wulong.
Cephas - A Wulong who is trying to find his son in the Wasteland outside Nihon.
Tomas - Starts off an 'evil' Wulong who accepts worship from the people, but soon joins Shau'ul and Cephas in their mission to expose the false 'gods' of Nihon.
Psalter - A troubled young Exile from Wulong who has come to believe he is the God of death.
PICTURE OF THE 'DAY':
Updated semi-never.
PSALTER SKETCH
A quick B&W sketch of Psalter. The thing around his neck is a "Vox Dei Collar", capable of amplifying the user's voice through the speakers to the point where it can cause earth tremors.