The Ignis Ember: An Origin Story
I recently bought a bass and love it. It punches way above its weight class and has a lot of top end features crammed into a lightweight package. One attractive character is the roughly textured wood finish. I started daydreaming about a story on where that wood could’ve come from: an origins story! Maybe it came from the wreckage of a pirate ship, or the drawbridge of a Scottish castle, maybe floorboards upon which Mozart paced when creating his greatest symphonies? Recovering from a cold, I had a day off to do “whatever”. Rest, eat, etc. But I kept coming back to my idea of an origin story for my bass. It called to me. I had been watching a lot of videos mentioning how Rush’s Neal Peart wrote lyrics with science fiction and fantasy often being his inspiration. That inspired me to create the draft of the story that follows. A creative writing exercise. Once I had the beginning, I put some of my ideas into AI and asked it to render an image. That image then gave me ideas tha...