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What attracted me about opening the story on the silk road is because the road winds through some of the harshest envirorment known to earth. the gobi desert, with it's ocean of sand and rock, have this outworldly quality to it. it's not just miles and miles of sand, but it also have some very cool rock and geological features i'd like to incorporate into the backdrop. from 100 degrees + of scorching wasteland, the silk road cut a swath across the great grassland of Xizhang to the frozen wilderness of the china/ russia border frontier, one has a lot to play with.

like, how would a boy from the island (i call pilipinas, Silangan in my story, which is pronounced: Cee-la- 'ngan) fare in these hostile envirorments? because of his intensive training, he is able to have almost total control over his physiology. he would be able to regulate the temperature of his body to such a degree that he would be literally smoking as he raises his core temperature when he hits the frozen thundra. all the while wearing his togs where ever he goes!

i also want to draw him on a horse and all sort of conveyances along his journey. the horse riding sequences would be specially enjoyable to me because i'm a big western fan. it's sort of my way of making a western eastern style ; )

i love the searchers. john ford's classic has those amazing vistas of the western landscape becomes a character in its self. one of john waynes best movies as well.