Henaji history

Been getting a lot of emails asking about the nature of Henaji and how it came to be. For those people, I say keep following the story, and all will reveal itself. However, here are some behind the scenes tidbits.

I originally came up with the idea of Henaji when I was in college completing my Animal and Dairy Science degree (yes, there are actual degrees for people who want to raise animals and milk cows for a living). I was in a relationship with two different people, and a lot of people saw this as strange. Being a person whose jealousy isn't triggered by the number of people involved with someone's significant other, I found their monogamy equally strange. So I came up with the concept of the Aether.
The Aether is a fantasy alter-dimension of modern day Earth. They're still mostly in the feudal era, but there are urban cities and rural villages. In the beginning, the Aether and Earth were one and the same, but as time went on, the elder gods saw Aetherials exploiting and harming humans: their pet creations. So they decreed that the two should be separate until such a time as they could coexist again.
Flash forward to Henaji and the current storyline. The elder gods are aware that their children the Aetherials have been very lax in their interpretation of their earlier decree, and as such, decided to open the borders so to speak. They would sponsor institutions such as Henaji in order to foster successful human-Aetherial relations (ignoring tales of such relations going hopelessly awry).
And so we have the present day Henaji, run by Raven and her cohorts.

Comic resumes Tuesday!

 

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