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Hello! I’m actually on holiday. I haven’t shared that, but now you know anyway. The reason is that I fractured my rib again, so I need time to heal.

That said, I wanted to share something so I took the time to write this very, very lengthy worldbuilding post.

I took a lot of time.

Too much a lot of time.

So much so I’m posting this late.

Anyway. *clears throat to go into storyteller mode*

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Let’s turn back time; let’s step a thousand years into the past and jump to a different timeline in our history.

When we do this, we end up in Zualu Diar, a large empire in Central Asia. Affected by cultures around them as well as their own original beliefs and traditions, we find them celebrate the June Solstice. To them, it’s a summer celebration, and a celebration related to the Deity of the Sun, Nükiž.

Now, the people in Zuladiar are many and a wide array of people, so traditions are various and I can’t include them all, but I wanted to share some different things about how they celebrate the June Solstice — or “to burn darkness”, Naral Židad, as they call the celebration.

With that, I’ll just dive right into the world of my novel Blood of Destinies Rewritten and their celebration now!

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