Glossary • Beings • Ga ~ Gz
Glalion {GLAY-lee-on}
hume of the planet Gloam
Born of Gloam, now in the fermentatious early middle of zir life, Glalion is what might be called a playlight. As in a kind of playwright, but with a crystalised emphasis on writing, evoking, storytelling with light. In particular, ze creates theatrical mystery events that have sub layers and dimensions that only become clear in conjunction with certain patterns of the eclipse season.
This conjunction is necessary not only for what is created to be illuminated, but because the suns, moons, and planets themselves actually become a part of the story - and play those part themselves. As such these events are described as being 'illuminated' as opposed to simply performed or experienced, and can take their own sweet time when it comes to coming to be. Glalion's entire being is a bit like that, really; responses will come after you think a conversation is closed, words used feel like they're both clear and full of shadow, and everything is languorous.
Glalion and Space Grandma are currently in collaboration on a play of their own.
Major theatrical works include:
Artificers
An embellished and kaleidoscopic imagined-recreation of the collaborations that led to the crafting of Gloam's first lens and mirror technologies.
Beyond Crescendo
Set in a single stretch of lowlands, based upon what is recorded in the Rohrlland Histories regarding the strange events and stranger effects of the seventy eighth eclipse season ('season' as counted by Rohrl Reckoning).
The Light of Dark
An early, highly crowdpleasing work that cannot be described by words.
Variegation, In All Its Elations
Set in the later early days of the first hume arrivals to Gloam. A troupe of actors, all there after losing themselves and life and opportunity, is lost in an unmapped valley - where each member discovers they change dramatically depending on the kind of light on their skin, leading to a devised performance of ecstatic proportion.
In the Ninth Night of My Heart
Semi-Autobiographical Metaphorical wherein Glalion's own total Being is creatively re-expressed as a great observatory complete with a community of distinct lives and voices. The play by turns meditative, melancholic, madcap, melodious, and mighty.
Perpetually Unfinished Play About the Expedition to The Hyperborluminous Heart
Like many storytellers of Gloam, Glalion also has works exploring the imagined consequences and possibilities of actually finding the Hyperborluminous Heart. These are, however, unfinished. Glalion's attempts are unique for their insistence in lasering their focuses in on a lesser known member of Gloavannon's crew named Aenovan. Glalion imagines Aenovan at the moment after the crew have left their last bastion anchorpoint planet behind, the last moon to leap, and given over fully to the dimensions of the heart as they quest into space for The Heart. What was, is only remembered by them increasingly dimly, but there is a question of dissension, a challenge of intention amongst the explorers. Some call for the way back. Aenovan fights to go forward, to live beyond illusions amidst the loam of a different light.