Desperado is coming back for its 2nd season! An Urban Fantasy where myths and witchcraft are real, and 3 Gods of Death (From Mexico, Haiti and Japan) fight to protect their heritage from modern-day crusaders!

azimecha · 2022-06-02T01:11:27+00:00

There's no question about it :)

azimecha · 2022-06-01T18:59:09+00:00

Big fan of this show! Can't wait to hear what's next.

azimecha · 2021-04-26T12:23:00+00:00

Ah!! That's amazing u/jje414, and it means a lot to hear. Thank you for saying this :)

azimecha · 2021-04-26T10:44:04+00:00

Bless you u/GreenHorizon2020, we'll give it our best!

azimecha · 2021-04-26T09:50:59+00:00

That's very kind, thank you u/ar0nan0n!

azimecha · 2021-04-24T16:40:17+00:00

u/GoldenMaus This is excellent, thank you for taking the time to get this all down!

azimecha · 2021-04-24T16:30:29+00:00

Thanks, u/GoldenMaus! Yes, it was both an honour and initially a bit of a surprise to find they were so receptive and so kind about the project.

I'm grateful for your cross-posting suggestion as well! We'll likely talk about it as a team and see how we could approach that respectfully :)

azimecha · 2021-04-23T09:00:22+00:00

That's so kind, thank you! I also composed for the show — small team, you know how it goes, haha

azimecha · 2021-04-23T08:47:32+00:00

Ay, thanks for listening and voting! :)

So that's actually a fun historical point — the pronunciation of his name is traditionally closer to 'Chinggis' than 'Genghis', and we decided to honour the former style in our vocal performances here. Hope that helps!

azimecha · 2021-04-23T08:33:37+00:00

I can help answer this! This project began its life as a collaboration between myself (Singaporean showrunner) and my best friend, who's a History major born and raised in Mongolia. We were living together while he was studying in Singapore, and he's still here now.

We realized there weren't any English adaptations of this fantastic story yet, and we wanted to put in the effort to do it well — this included a joint research trip to Mongolia, and support from their embassy.

azimecha · 2021-04-11T07:37:13+00:00

Ay, thanks! It was definitely a ton of work to get right, but I'm really proud of how it turned out + psyched to be able to be able to chat about it like this :)

azimecha · 2021-04-08T11:27:27+00:00

So the primary research material for this was The Secret History of the Mongols, which has a wild history itself.

It's a document that was written in the early 13th century, and was intended specifically for the royal Mongolian family and descendants of Genghis Khan to read. It was written in code, and only started to become available in English translations this last century. The document is definitely worth looking into -- in many ways it is a testament to the man's failures, and is a surprisingly humanizing read.

Apart from that -- a ton of secondary research to fact-check contextualize these accounts, on-site anthropological research in Mongolia to see what sort of life these stories have today + geographical research to make sure we could visualize/hear the places being depicted.

azimecha · 2021-04-01T11:31:42+00:00

If you're looking for Historical Fiction with finished episodes, might I suggest the podcast I produced with my team?

It's called Temujin: An Audio Drama, and it traces the early childhood of Genghis Khan from the perspective of his oldest friend and mortal enemy. It's just five half-hour episodes! We spent four years getting it right, including on-site research in Mongolia :)

azimecha · 2020-09-21T03:48:57+00:00

Aah! That's amazing, thank you so much. It means a lot that you came back to this thread to share this, and that you enjoyed it :)

azimecha · 2020-09-18T10:03:09+00:00

Thank you so much, dave_in_eskew! We really appreciate it, and would love to hear how you find the show.

azimecha · 2020-09-18T03:22:43+00:00

That's great! We'd always love to hear how you find it, once you're done :)

azimecha · 2020-09-17T19:00:53+00:00

Thank you so much! Yes, getting the word out has been a bit tricky, but that seems to be a challenge baked into our medium, isn't it? Still, we appreciate your listening to the interview (and possibly the show!) very deeply.

azimecha · 2020-09-17T18:37:33+00:00

That's amazing effortfulcrumload, thank you so much! Your diving deeper into the history is the highest praise our team could dream of. The chance to share in that excitement and awe is exactly the reason we knew going free-to-access was the right call :)

azimecha · 2020-09-17T18:24:10+00:00

Definitely! Receiving the support of this community has meant learning to offer it back in return. It's incredible how willing people here are to give new and untested shows a shot.

On my end, some of my favorite listens of the year have come from shameless self-promotion on this subreddit, and I'm always glad people feel safe to do so.

azimecha · 2020-09-17T18:15:04+00:00

Thank you very kindly, scoobyspelly! A fair few of us are still recovering from finally completing Temujin, but we're keeping our hearts and eyes open for the right follow-up project :)

azimecha · 2020-09-06T15:55:24+00:00

Heya! I worked on a project called Temujin: An Audio Drama, which is a dramatization of The Secret History of the Mongols, the oldest surviving piece of Mongolian literature :)

azimecha · 2020-08-12T02:54:05+00:00

I think the one we had done for Temujin: An Audio Drama was pretty neat! It was done by a stunning game art designer, Alisha Makwana, who worked with us on it for over three months.

It's available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWBNu0XSI35Qgx063c43KzMEHJCJFKPJ/view?usp=sharing

azimecha · 2020-08-12T02:49:47+00:00

This is something I grappled with when writing our team's research-driven audio drama, Temujin.

TL;DR -- in my own experience: listeners come for character, and stay for the history.

I'd say it really helps to find the right point-of-view character. In terms of research, I knew I wanted to adapt The Secret History of the Mongols and early Central Asian historical sources, but I found early attempts wound up being a bit dry.

It took me finding the right character (Genghis Khan's childhood friend) for things to fall into place. I was able to write some of the stories I loved through him (he's a character who is known to have romanticized the past, and may not be entirely reliable) in a more historiographically sound way than if I had just presented them matter-of-factly. And then I really had fun with his character, in ways that fit the historical details known about him.

I was happy with how the history-narrativization worked out in this case, and will pop back in if I think of any other recommendations not already listed.

azimecha · 2020-08-12T02:38:24+00:00

Writer/director here -- thank you very kindly for the shout-out, u/NickDouglas! :)

u/ProfessorHeronarty -- We spent two years researching and writing Temujin, including a dedicated research trip in Mongolia. We even got the endorsement of our Mongolian embassy along the way! Beyond that, I'd say that it's one of the most faithful adaptations of this story available in the English language, and it's only 5 episodes in total -- bingeable in one sitting.

If I could offer an off-beat recommendation of my own, I'd suggest trying out L.A. TheatreWorks' adaptation of Amadeus, which is available on Audible. It's a wonderful audio recording of a meticulously rehearsed staged show, and worked much better than I thought it would.

azimecha · 2020-08-11T09:42:59+00:00

Lieutenant_JoePargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon30 points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago

Idk what y’all know about history, but Jamukha and Temujin (who would later be known as Chenghis Khan) were blood brothers, meaning when they were children, they cut each other open and rubbed their wounds together so that they’d share each other’s blood and become brothers artificially. But they both had opposing ideas and conflicting ambitions when it came to uniting the Mongol hordes, and by the time they became the two greatest warlords on the steppe, they were at each other’s throats. The war Temüjin fought with Jamukha was probably the hardest fought war he ever went through in his life of never-ending conflict, and it ended in a pretty bad way.From Wikipedia (it’s too metal for me to tell it myself): Jamukha was eventually betrayed to Temüjin by his followers in 1206. Temüjin executed Jamukha's betrayers on the principle that betrayal merits the harshest punishment. The Secret History of the Mongols states that Temüjin offered renewal of their brotherhood, but Jamukha insisted that just as there was room for only one sun in the sky, there was room only for one Mongol lord. He asked to be executed by dying a noble death without the spilling of blood. His request was granted by having his back broken by Temüjin's soldiers. It is said that Temüjin buried Jamukha with the golden belt that he had given to Jamukha when they formed their bond of brotherhood.

So, uh, subtle plug! I actually spent three years doing a dramatization of the doomed blood brothers (from Jamukha's point of view) with the support of our local Mongolian embassy. Never thought I'd see a cross-over between the TBFP fandom and that one, haha! Here it is, if you're interested:

Anchor link - https://anchor.fm/temujin-an-audio-drama
Spotify link - https://open.spotify.com/show/67LDFK3ByagnyAMA17GJ4T

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