a rift

magog-on-the-march:
“ “ Now, there was another phenomena that I witnessed in life; what happens to children that were left inheritances and what do they do to one another. The parents don’t even really want to leave their kids anything, they just...

Now, there was another phenomena that I witnessed in life; what happens to children that were left inheritances and what do they do to one another. The parents don’t even really want to leave their kids anything, they just want to buy their own immortality. I knew people who were so phenomenally wealthy that, rather than leave their kids an inheritance, they were more interested in funding research that would solve answers to diseases in order to save their own lives. They didn’t really care. Or, we look at what happens amongst the royal families in the Middle East where the princes kill each other as they come of age. There’s a very weird sort of affliction that happens to the super-wealthy and then their offspring.
So in the case of Gorman Disenza… Not Molluck’s mother. Not her mother buthermother. So, Molluck’s great‐grandmother has Gorman Disenza. And when she should have died, a hundred‐plus years ago, she didn’t. She’s so hanging on to living and so void of spiritual essence that she chose to be cryogenically frozen with a whole set of legal conditions as to how her wealth should be controlled; how much money should be earned every decade. Lady Margaret, who should have been the heir of the family fortune—not all the Glukkons’, she’s just one queen in one industry—was denied her inheritance by a grandmother who should have died long ago but is still asleep in cryogenic with only three months left to live, but she’s prolonged that a hundred years. The only time she’s awakened is if the profits on her investments drop to such a degree that her offspring obviously aren’t handling the family business well.
Now, in the second piece of the Quintology we were to meet Lady Margaret. Then in the third piece we’d find out that the character who we thought was an emperor is actually a pawn and was deprived of her own birthright by ancestors who were so greedy and so diabolical that they screwed the pooch on their descendants.
Now Maggie’s grandmother was to be reawakened in the third piece of the Quintology and she’s going to be really pissed off because that means the clock is ticking on the 90 days she has left to live. So if she’s awakened because her investments start losing profit — which is caused by Abe’s actions — then the real bitch is awakened and things get much worse. What I wanted to see was that the actions of one little guy eventually start affecting entire economies of nations. Then we get to see what happens when the big boys get upset — they get brutal.
The cure for Gorman Disenza is in the blood of the Gabbits. One of the reasons why Munch is the last is because they were researching them to find the cure that she was financing through various research associations. Like half the cancer research organisations here on earth, if you look in to them you have to question their validity. They’re vast money‐making machines.
So, when she wakes up the shit is really going to hit the fan. It’s kind of like Anne Rice’s book Queen of the Damned; an Egyptian queen is reawakened in the modern world but she still thinks it’s the old world. So I wanted to have that concept of John D. Rockefeller brought of cryogenic sleep and he still thinks ‘Well just go in and beat all the workers until they do their job’. It makes their world dive backwards in to even more primitive stuff.
-Lorne Lanning, in a 2011 interview (x)
Lady Margaret concept art by Farzad Varahramyan.

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