I should stop and introduce myself. I am Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed world traveler
and story-teller. Of course you have heard of me, for my tales of the great heroes and their adventures have been repeated far and wide across the land.
Yes, I am sad to say that many of my stories have been told without the benefit of my name being attached to them. This is unfortunate as my appellation, which is to say the name of
Buxton and of Eaglethorpe would add a certain something to the verisimilitude of a story, which is to say the truthfulness or the believability of the
story. But such is the jealousy of other
story-tellers that they cannot bear to have my name overshadow theirs. In truth I am probably better known in any case as an adventurer in my own right than as a teller of the adventures of others. But in any case, there was a pie.
I started writing Eaglethorpe Buxton in early 2009 just as a bit of fun. I wanted a story with an unreliable narrator, set in a fantasy world, but I wasn’t to worried that the world be believable or even make sense. I used the world that my kids and I had created to play D&D in, but played pretty fast and loose with the geography.