The challenge in story-telling is not to just tell the tale, it is to create a world. No two people will tell a story the same way. But the story is often dependent on what a person know of life and the depth of one’s internal experiences, one’s motivations.
The ancient world is a metropolitan world, one of many cultures and connections. There is a time when neither Europe or America existed, when other empires rose and fell.
The character Yasuke sits at the nexus of great historical changes. And that is where we begin, bringing his character into being.
