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The Kingsway is a highway, created by engineer Bert Whistlebottom for King Blodwyn, despite opposition from the Wiglers, Grumps, Ruiners and Youngs. It connects Draxenland’s outlying villages and borders the hinterland.
The Saga of Draxfort is satire, reading age 13 – 99, an allegory like Alice and Oz. A tale of many tales, lampooning fairytales, the fantasy genre and fashion brands, Draxfort is both a castle and a dynasty, rotten to the core.
Let’s face it, you are never going to meet an elf, pixie, fairy, a flying superhero, nor indeed any fantasy beast, simply because they don’t exist. Never did, never will, they are all one hundred percent complete absolute nonsense. However as you go through life you will most definitely meet the characters in Draxfort, they are everywhere. Read carefully and take note – Nemini Confide.
It’s the early fifteenth century, plague ravages Europe and the orphaned Wixy quintuplet sisters, flee Florence’s witch hunters, escaping to Draxenland, an island in the North Sea. Rebicus Hargmond, son of an alchemist, along with young blacksmith and inventor Jack Rojax together with Kaitlyn de Belvort, daughter of Sir Justin, face a devious, scheming court, drowning in debt and vying for power. Princess Sharon, heir to the throne, resists an arranged marriage as Draxfort descends into financial crisis, duels, battles and sieges, in a fight for the crown.
Creating Draxfort. Back in the 90s, I was at Elstree Film Studios, working for royalties, taking profit and losses, designing character clocks and watches from Barbie and My Little Pony to Masters of the Universe and Transformers, basically all the big licenses, too many to mention.
Attending Disney licensee previews at London’s Empire Leicester Square, both Hunchback and Pocahontas were a cause for concern. Nobody knew it then but the end of the Disney Renaissance had arrived. However when Rex the dinosaur said, “Well, actually I’m from a smaller company that was purchased by Mattel in a leveraged buyout,” Toy Story added a fun reality to revolutionary art. The need for a proper fairytale with novel characters was in the air, but what could they be?
All creativity is inspired. Hearing my kids’ Bozo ring-pull clown come to life in Larry Harmon’s NY apartment was spooky, then going round Filmation with Lou Scheimer and creating She-Ra clocks, a girl hero team seemed obvious. So when Rick Ungar told me he’d only thought up Biker Mice, I decided to have a go too.
Noticing a Frankfurt bookshop display of paper maché witches, the idea of Wixys on victorian jet-brooms came to me. I intended to quickly pitch the concept with a short satirical nursery rhyme, like AA Milnes, The Kings Breakfast. However ten thousand words of verse later, I had a proper story, sketches and treatment, Hasbro took a look and said come back with a TV series.
Valery Hoskins, the British TV literary agent, who later sold Fifty Shades to Universal, read it and suggested her Warner’s contacts. They’d just started Quest for Camelot, their first animated fairytale and Jeffrey Katzenberg replied he was busy building a studio. Shrek became his fairytale and Disney turned Princesses into a brand, later using my Panuflex Patent cardboard displays for Tangled, as Warners did for Batman.
Then Amazon and Youtube changed everything. So six years ago I began the novel, greatly expanding the original idea as a basis for streaming. Having designed Lego’s clocks and watches, I was aware of the Silk Road, now in the Wixys’ backstory, and designing sets and stunts, I modelled the entire island of Draxenland in Minecraft for Youtube videos and Minecraft server publicity.
However Draxfort’s no Minecraft story, nor another puerile quest. What’s more there’s no consulting a mirror-mirror, or stepping through one come to that, because reflecting reality like Toy Story, this is also the saga of the very first merchandising brand, the House of Draxfort, and you’re already in it, maybe right up to your credit limit and Draxfort t-shirt’s neck. COD