The Shining Orb Series

I love finding quotes that hold a lot of meaning. I have a book full of quotes that I can pull from, so be ready to see more.

The politics in my books, however subtle they be, do deal with settler colonialism and the aftermath of such a thing. I don’t feel like I’m the best person to be writing about the horrors of settler colonialism, extermination, and cultural genocide. It isn’t my lived experience. But I also find it a very important topic and unfortunately settler colonialism is still happening today, especially in that little strip of land in the Levant.

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Many cultures and races in my books have undergone such treatment. The elves being the main way to show this, and they are not a stand in for any one group of people in the real world. The elves and dwarves and all of the other groups targeted and displaced represent oppressed peoples in general.

They live in a constant state of fear. The threat of death if they leave their communities is extremely high. The palaces and cities built by their ancestors occupied by their settlers who pushed them out of the land they had lived on. They aren’t allowed the freedom of movement that we crave.

The first book sees the elves fighting back against their oppressors, and the violence that can come from that. How a group pushed to the brink of extinction will do whatever is necessary for their children’s survival. The second book will show the reasons the elves fight back, and the horrors they face just trying to live in a world that hates them.

Anyway the quote is below. The humans in my book have undergone hundreds of years of conditioning to see the elves as totally villainous. That it isn’t possible to live in peace. This is, of course, a lie. A lie that takes place in real life as well.

This quote was written sixty years ago about the settler colonialism that took place throughout the world, and specially the colonization of Algeria. It’s is just as relevant as ever. It comes from the book ‘The Wretched of the Earth.’

“As if to show the totalitarian character of colonial exploitation the settler paints the native as a sort of quintessence of evil.”

– Frantz Fanon