As I said in another thread I'm planning on buying more of the prehistoric theme. I like the theme a lot and I'm using it in a story which will be started in this thread. Besides taking the pictures of the playmo and come up with some story line I'm currently practising with Adobe Photoshop to get some nice backgrounds. So the pictures are not as great as I would like them to be at the moment, I hope they will get better and any advice on photography, adobe, working with real backgrounds is appreciated.
Have fun!
Andar and the secret of the copper axe.In a cave then thousand years ago an old man visits a wise magician. The magician is younger but his knowledge reaches far beyond that of other man and that's why they call him a magician. It is said he can make fire when it rains, he talks with animals using a special flute and most of all he has contact with the gods. The old man Ganbar is the leader of a tribe of hunters. The magician had asked Ganbar to meet him in the cave of the ancestors. The stories of their past are drawn on the walls in the caves and in the deep their treasures are save for the man hunting tribes. Those man hunting tribes actually hunt for women, children, food and treasures of other tribes instead of hunting on animals. The magician and Ganbar have a meeting of great importance for their women were robbed last week and the men want revenge! ‘Great Ganbar, I have something here I wanted to show you, wait a moment’, says the magician.
The magician walks further down the cave and Ganbar waits and wonders why he has been summoned. Especially now when time is short for the tribe has to get ready to avenge themselves. He never liked the young magician with his sly words and sleek advice. In the old days, when he was young the tribe eldest alone was ruler and the tribes magician was just there when advice was needed. In those times skills in the art of fighting and strength were of most importance. Nowadays, it seems all the other way around. I want to see that magician talk a mammoth into be caught and slaughtered.
‘My dear Ganbar look at what I found the other day.’ ‘Holy mother of earth and sky’ shrieks Ganbar, ‘wh….what is that?’ Before Ganbars eyes a long blinking yellow to red staff flickers in the light of the fire. At the end of the staff a semicircle is attached and is made of the same material and shimmers even more. ‘It looks like an axe,’ ‘Is it a magic axe from the Gods?’ asks Ganbar. The magician suppresses his contempt and says: ‘No, great Ganbar, the gods did not make this. It is from the hand of a man beyond the icy mountains. It belongs to the people who live there with very strange habits and, obviously, miraculous craftsmanship’
‘I will hand it over to you, so you can see how it enjoys the sunlight for it shimmers even brighter then. I think you and your son can find some good use for it and maybe try out the material for hunting or building.’ While the magician hands over the shiny axe Ganbars mind already working out some scenarios for what his next moves would be to get their women and children back using this new weapon. ‘Thank you magician, I will look after it and contact my son Andar, the bravest and most cunning warrior and hunter on this side of the mountains.’ ‘Yes great Ganbar, you do that, for knowledge of this object could be of great importance for our future. I’ve been told that the people who create these kinds of materials also have knowledge to make their own food. They don’t hunt, they don’t gather fruit from the forest and fishing is done for leisure, explains the magician.
In the magicians mind other plans are forged for he actually is not interested in the axe, but on how it is made. ‘Well, goodbye then, and let the gods be at our hand. We still cannot make our own food and have to hunt for meat and gather berries and apples. We will consult each other in short notion how to handle our loss and how this weapon can help us.’ Ganbar says. He speaks in a casual voice for knowing this way the magician does not suspect that Ganbar is aware of the true agenda of the magician.
