The Ghost

The Ghost was an explorer in Eden during the First Age. An Earthling salesman before The Calamity which ended existence as he knew it, The Ghost rose to post-apocalyptic prominence by serving as the aide to famed Winkie explorer Lüe the Mapmaker.

 

Life Before the End

During the Earth-665 iteration of reality, the so-called Ghost was a salesman with an eidetic memory, a love for women, and almost no social skills. After discovering his iteration’s version of The Strumpet’s Sister and learning to unstick himself in time, he eventually succeeded in altering the past. In the process, he unintentionally caused The Calamity which led to the rebooting of reality.

 

Life After the End

Much of the story of this Interregnum between The Ghost’s iteration of reality and the next was chronicled in A Dream Is But a Shadow, the 2011 album by E. Christopher Clark’s band Pop Bubblegum Trash. But there is certainly more to be told, more beyond the story of the fool’s errand which he gave to a sextet of women inside an Edenian pub one evening early in that time of inbetween days.

 

In fact, the achievements that would bring The Ghost the most notoriety all came after he led those six women to their accidental doom. Once the women led him to the younger version of himself who’d been hiding in The Garden—each of them dying in turn along the way—The Ghost, inspired by this reconnection with his core self, set about on a quest to restore reality to the way that it once was.

 

He felt he owed this to the women he’d kept too long from whatever’s next thanks to his stupidly accurate and comprehensive memory.

 

After wandering the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, he met the famous Lüe and agreed to serve as her scribe and bodyguard. Together, they charted nearly all of Eden. And while they did this, The Ghost searched for The Seven Voices who could help him sing a renewed reality into being.

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Dec 22, 2020 13:45 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

I love the line 'rose to post-apocalyptic prominence'. Not sure why, it just really works. :D   The Ghost sounds like a really interesting character.

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Dec 23, 2020 16:01 by E. Christopher Clark

Thanks! I'd written about him for this concept album I did years ago, which I only later realized would be the basis for a lot of the more fantastical elements of my world. So funny that it took a medium I'm not 100% comfortable in (music) to get me fully back to my fantasy/comic-booky roots.

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Dec 23, 2020 16:02 by E. Christopher Clark

P.S. I'm glad you loved "post-apocalyptic prominence." One of my favorite bits of alliteration I've written this month.

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Jan 2, 2021 17:22 by Cassandra Sojourn

Excellent character! I love how his eidetic memory inadvertently caused his six crushes to be stuck in Eden. As well as the LotR reference. This article felt very meta.

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Jan 2, 2021 19:24 by E. Christopher Clark

Thank you! The album from whence he came was also quite meta. I'm thinking about finally putting it back online so that I can link to it here on WorldEmber (and let people listen to it, if they choose).

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Jan 3, 2021 02:04 by Cassandra Sojourn

Please do!

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