By and copyright of Owen Quinn author
Writers get inspiration from all sorts of places and things. In the case of the Wolves of Chernobyl, it all came down to a lazy moment scrolling through google.
I opened my computer to do something and of course, the Google feed pops up first. My eye was caught immediately by an article about wolves. I love wolves and their entire societal structure. I also love reading about Chernobyl, the location of a nuclear disaster now impossible for humans to live it and where Mother Nature has taken back.
With no human occupation, wildlife has returned in force including many species that had not inhabited the area for years.
But the interesting thing is, the wolves and I would discover, canine population had become resistant to cancer. Whatever I had originally opened my computer to do was immediately forgotten. I always had the image of the Pripyat Ferris Wheel in my head. Chernobyl had always been on my places to do a story in and here it was.
Everyone has had someone close to them die from some form of cancer so this could be a personal story for the Time Warriors too. Cancer did not exist on Xereba yet both Jacke and Michael have had relatives die and be affected by it. Michael triggers this one for the sake of his late grandfather who died from leukemia. He reasons that if they can add Xereban knowledge to what the human scientists have discovered so far, then this would be a real chance of finding the cure for cancer,
It literally wrote itself with the twist on the legacy of Sandara Ventris, Varran’s arch enemy and former head of the Family, renegade Xerebans. So adding in werewolves was a no brainer. The added twist of technology keyed to detect Xereban life signs was added to bypass any coincidental occurrences that |i hate in stories. What could be more evocative that a werewolf standing before the Pripyat Ferris Wheel. It represents the frozen wheel of time Chernobyl exists in.
We also get an unseen part of Varran’s history as it reveals that Chernobyl is full of ghosts for him too. Again, we learn moore about the Warriors and what drives them.
To be honest, I also think this would be a great action figure set so any producers looking a new show to film, here’s your chance.
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