Christian's Epic Blog

Abdoe looked around, wondering how his life had come to this. It seemed like only yesterday he had been a child. Now, at only 15 years of age, he had been dragged into the war of his father and uncles. Abdoe’s father, Jaruna, was one of the most powerful warriors in the world. Abdoe had always wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and be a mighty warrior. Though he wasn’t as capable with a bow as his father, Abdoe had considerable skill in battle of his own. It helped that he had been born with magical abilities. Abdoe had mostly spectated the war from the outskirts of battles, jumping in here and there where he could. It wasn’t until recently that his family had been confident enough in his abilities to allow him to take a more central role. Abdoe snapped back to reality. He gazed at the fifty plus enemy warriors that had surrounded him. They had isolated him from his comrades, cornering him into a obscure clearing of the forest in which the battle had been taking place. ...

     This sections has been the most exciting as I continue to read through it.  The battle continues from the previous section, and it's only getting more intense.  One of my favorite stories was where Abhimanyu fights seven warriors by himself.  Though he put up a great fight, he eventually perished.  Upon hearing that his son has died, Arjuna becomes passionate in a way that we haven't seen up until this point.  He was determined to avenge the death of his son.  I think writing a story about Abhimanyu's last moments would be cool.  I could maybe even change up the story so that he survives, or give it some other twist.  The battle scenes from this section have been incredible.  I would love to write a different version of Arjuna on his way through an army to avenge the death of his son.  You know that nothing was going to stop Arjuna from accomplishing this act of vengeance.  As the battle rages on, more and more m...

     Some of my favorite scenes from this week's reading come from Arjuna's solo adventures, specifically the story Arjuna and Indra.  In this story, Arjuna collects celestial weapons from the gods, though also is cursed.  He spends years perfecting the arts of singing and dancing because of this curse.  At this time he also becomes proficient at yielding the celestial weapons bestowed upon him.  My favorite part of this story, which I am thinking about writing a story based off of these events, is where Arjuna travels to fight giants and demons which are the ancient enemy of his father Indra.  He takes his father's chariot to the underworld beneath the sea, in the region where these enemies reside called Patala.  Arjuna proceeds to wage war with demons who attempted to thwart him in an epic battle. After taking down the defenses, Arjuna ravages the demon city called Hiranyapura.  I think it would be a lot of fun to write about these bat...