Domus Exsulis: The Grounds
by Nin Harris on Sep.17, 2006, under Domus Exsulis
Domus Exsulis is a rambling structure of ancient stone that stands on a cliff overlooking Alta Exsilii, the Sea of Exiles. It is surrounded by a garden overrun with thorny rose bushes,winding walkways and sprawling lawn. If you are lucky, you may catch a sight of the dragons who like to lounge about, bronze, gold, copper and silver scales glinting in the afternoon sun or golden moonlight. Once upon a time they would wait here for the Guardian to feed them all manner of baked goods. But they still bask here, showing no sign of missing her or her famed biscuits.
There are also the goblins who fence with the pookas and the gnomes in darkened hallways, and blue mountain imps playing long, involved games of chess along the veranda that overlooks the sea. Domus Exsulis can be a hub of activity or deserted and silent.
Somewhere at the bottom of the garden there is a quiet pool where nixies dwell, and along the roofless corridors of moonlight which criss-cross the grounds, random spirits rub shoulders with backpackers and poets.
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Domus Exsulis: The House of Exiles
Welcome to Domus Exsulis, an online hypertextual storytelling web that has been continuously woven and re-woven since 1997 by Nin Harris. The storytelling process has been made as organic as possible so that the reader may have a feel of being within a shifting textual amphitheatre. You may enjoy the stories out of sequence or, consult the Preface for New Exiles and the Guide to Lumen Procellae to read the stories within a more conventional sequence.
There are currently two writing projects set on Domus Exsulis to look forward to: the novel, Watermaidens as well as the projected digital chapbook, The Caretaker's Tale & The Dragon Who Thought She Was a Tree: Two Novellas . The chapbook will be released in various ebook formats in 2011. Stay tuned for more details if you're keen on unearthing the fictive mysteries surrounding this world!
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June 17th, 2009 on 7:49 am
[...] now and then, some of the braver or naughtier children from the Mycologos Protectorate break into the grounds of Domus Exsulis. Their Protectorate was set up, after all, in defiance of The Guardian’s [...]