Kirjahaku

What started as a teenage thought project about why the human race still has the capacity to feel when it's so obviously disadvantageous has, in the near-decade since, metamorphosed into a full attempted deconstruction and analysis of the human condition. Complete with my own virgining thoughts on trans-humanism and what necessary steps I believe must be taken before humanity ever truly begins to transcend its primeval heritage and failings.I draw from a variety of sources including movies, pop culture, philosophy, science and history. Using my knowledge of art and science, I attempt to condense the essence of such works as Jordan Peterson's 'Maps of Meaning' and Friedrich Niche's 'Will to Power' down into a digestible, common sense format for greater ease of consumption and interpretation.I accept my pitiful position as a hairless ape and do not claim to be omniscient. What I do have is a mind, a will and the hands to put both to work, and so that's what I have done. I accept whatever consequences may come of my writing this and I've accepted those too.May it be that I can be said to have contributed something, however slight, to humanity's noble cause: to boldly go where no man has gone before.

After her defeat of the False God, Amelia Roberts, now secretly Amelia Silver, makes renewed efforts on her quest to become a fearsome Pyrate and avenge her family. To this end she becomes the pupil of the Academy's resident, and the world's foremost, magical instructor, a wise old tortoise named Shanter. However, a boatload of political intrigue and devious mischief is unearthed after a coordinated attack on a critical trading port by the FPA's chief rival, Conshorta, and the ruthless Amurzan slave gang known as the Black Sky. What's worse, deadly thorns of treachery begin to show even within the ranks of those Amelia had only just recently begun to call her friends. Now Amelia must become a Pyrate in more than just title. She must be the eye of the storm and hail the oncoming chaos with nothing but the steel and shot at her side and her will to see destiny through to the bitter end. After all, for a beast who seeks power over all, there exists only one stable truth: beware the Grave Warden.

For thousands of years humans have been obsessed with the ideas of fate and destiny. Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose?For most of that time, many fiends, parasites and predators have fed on the innocent yearnings to sate their own appetites for power. Very few ever find true enlightenment. Partially because they haven't the will to seek it, this is true. But also because many are never even made aware that such a thing is even there to find at all.It doesn't take a genius to work out why. The eponymous "masters of mankind" couldn't exactly have all their servants running off and finding their own way through the woods.No. In order for civilization to thrive, humanity at large must be bought at pittance rates. Substituting vague desires for peace and empty social posturing for real virtue.These things are not unique to us in the modern day. But what is is our access to information. We, all of us, have at our disposal all the data, all the wisdom, all the collected learning that used to, not a few generations ago, be reserved for the intelligentsia. The learned "elites", whose only real claim to their throne was that they had enough spare time and wealth to devote to the study of things not directly pertaining to survival.We now have the power to decipher what the ancient sages had told each other. But where to even begin? I won't pretend to be a genius, a prophet or a messiah. Like you who is reading this, I'm just another animal scrabbling in the dark after thoughts that are only just within my ken.But like an animal, my will to survive is iron. And my will to not live my life in a cage is adamantium. So follow me through the dark spines and spires of oblivion if you dare. Let us seek knowledge and wisdom there together. Let us break our chains, throw off our hoods and bask in the fires of our own existence.

The last daughter of the infamous pirate, Black Bart, Amelia Roberts enrolls in a pirate academy in an effort to follow in her late father's footsteps. Little does she know what real education lies in store for her when the sins and saints of the past arise in true force to haunt the present. In a world molded by magic, upended by science and fraught with political intrigue, for a young Pyrate there exists only one stable truth: beware the False God.