Dranul Wiki

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### **Dranul, an attempt at an encyclopedia of fantastical worlds by Paul Lenke**

Dranul is essentially just me compiling a lot of background information from my short stories for my own convenience and anybody who cares enough. As a result of this it is pretty much effectively my world building tool and creative outlet.

##### Hey, I'm Paul, from Germany, and this is my little passion project.

My inspiration for what I wrote and am currently writing is a multitude of things. I personally studied sociology for a little while and found a lot of the more meta approaches to societies, groups of people and social dynamics very interesting. I'm generally a very curious, inquisitive guy and easy to fascinate. Furthermore I have been reading European/Western fantasy novels ever since I can read, so approximately since the age of 4-5 years old (my first novel I read was Michael Ende's *The Neverending Story* :-)). When I was approximately 17 I discovered Chinese Web Novels as a past time hobby of mine, but what always bothered me was the lack of depth and amount of superficial writing involved, either way they have had a large influence on the power fantasies involved in what I'm writing and you may find some weird Taoism or Confucian elements strewn around the place, don't mind that LOL.

Then there's Wow. I've been playing Wow almost since I started playing video games, which is a long time. I used to love the game with all my heart, and I used to get incredibly involved and immersed in fictional worlds through this and the fantasy novels I read concurrently. This makes me more interested in writing a deep, immersive world that I can submerge myself into than writing one compelling story such as a novel (though I'm not saying I'll never do that).

Since I'm opening myself so much already, I may as well say it, the idea of Aetra as pursuers of truth is based on my personal philosophical beliefs, and I'm definitely subconsciously letting a lot of deep-seated fascinations and fantasies flow into this. That doesn't mean that everything I did and will write in these stories or on this Wiki is going to be something I enjoy or condone or fantasize about, as my definition of an immersive story is that it is as frightening as it is comforting. That it is as interesting as it can be despicable. A tiny bit like life.

This is a creative outlet for me. I think sometimes I want to almost burst from excess creativity, and it makes me furiously start playing games like Minecraft, draw or write stuff, just any way I can let off some creative steam and create something. Externalize all the ideas and thoughts I have constantly whirring around my head, put the stories I constantly think of when I see random people on the street, play a game or look at a simple picture of an old castle on paper, trying to channel the energy I have towards something specific and quantitative.

I'm twenty as of writing this, so excuse my lack of deep seated insights I may have when I'm thirty or fourty, future me. We know each other and I can tell you'll ridicule me for how silly I sound right now, haha. Either way, this is going to be something that hopefully follows me through life. I'll be active some times, and less active at others, but hopefully I will always come back to this. In order to flesh it out and all.

Peace! Signing out for now; yours, Paul.

##### Little Disclaimer

If you've read any of my short stories, feel free to add pages about concepts, people, places or events I haven't added so far! Note: Please write WHAT you changed, this will help administrate the page. Cheers :)

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