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From The Saga of Draxfort novel reading age 13 – 99. Fine for kids but not made for kids.
The Kingsway is a highway, created by engineer and inventor 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 an allegory like Alice and Oz, a satire of our times, addressing today’s issues in a light-hearted way. A tale of many tales, lampooning fairytales, the fantasy genre and fashion brands, Draxfort is 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 or any fantasy beast whatsoever, 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 The Saga of Draxfort, they are everywhere and they are all out for themselves, so 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. Where exactly? Legend says Draxenland is now submerged, the highest part of the Dogger Bank that once connected the east coast of England to Europe, today the site of the world’s largest wind farm. If you’re high up on Boulby Cliff, or indeed anywhere on the East Coast of England with night falling, an electrical storm brewing and the turbines spinning, churning the electrons at just the right speed, not too slow and not too fast, you may be lucky enough to see a mirage of Draxfort rise above the horizon. I never have of course, but then I don’t live on the East Coast.
The Main Story 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, is set for an arranged marriage as Draxfort descends into financial crisis, duels, battles and sieges, in a fight for the crown and hand of the princess.
Creating Draxfort. Back in the 90s, I was at Elstree Film Studios, working for royalties with income depending on hit licenses, designing character clocks and watches from Barbie and My Little Pony to Masters of the Universe and Transformers, including practically all the big licenses.
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 fun fairytale was in the air, Jeffery Katzenberg was falling out with Michael Eisner, which gave me the idea of internal strife in a Disney castle, but what would the castle look like and what would the novel licensed characters 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, who later became head of Marvel productions, told me Biker Mice was just his idea, I decided to have a go too.
On the way to the Frankfurt book fair I noticed shop window display of paper maché witches and 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. However they’d just started Quest for Camelot, their first animated fairytale and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who’d then left Disney, amazingly 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.
Many years later Amazon, Youtube, Netflix and Minecraft changed everything. Having designed Lego’s clocks and watches, I was aware of the Silk Road, now in the Wixys’ backstory and to envisage a world for streaming, I modelled the entire island of Draxenland in Minecraft, which I’m now showcasing on Youtube, so please subscribe.
Draxfort’s no Game of Thrones saga of revenge. There’s no consulting a mirror-mirror, or stepping through one, reflecting our reality, it’s the story of the very first brand like LVMH, the world you’re in, maybe right up to your credit limit and Draxfort t-shirt’s neck. COD
