 Many, many, many years ago, long before I ever created spirit science, I was a passionate animator and I loved telling stories. When I was 14 years old, I started a story that didn't have a name. I asked my friend one time, what do you think I should call this thing? And he said, well, exile's a cool word, so why don't you call it that? And I said, sure, because I didn't have any other better ideas at the time. The story that I conceived of told the tale of two kingdoms. The tale of friendship and betrayal, of overcoming the greatest of obstacles, and of true perfect love. From the ages of 14 to 18, I animated four episodes, and then when I turned 19, I had my spiritual awakening. Everything in my life changed dramatically, and all of my focus shifted to learning about the spiritual sciences of the world and sharing what I was learning through spirit science, the animated series. But exile didn't die. It stayed deeply rooted in my heart and my soul, waiting for a time when I would open it up once more. Over the last five years or so, every once in a while, this story would emerge within me and was transformed again and again. It changed to become a greater expression of itself by implementing many of the things that I was learning through my work with spirit science. The title of the story was also reborn, changing from exile into elixir. Today, I want to share with you these videos exactly as they were made when I was a teenager. Now you'll have to forgive my 14 year old self. He had absolutely no training on script writing or character development, but I'm compelled to share this with you today for a very particular reason, and it's a reason that I can only explain once you've seen it all. However, as you go through this, you might be confused at points or find yourself wondering, why am I watching this? And if so, that's okay. I encourage you to have fun with this. If you are called, make yourself comfortable. Get into a comfy chair, maybe put it up on a TV, get some popcorn if you like, or even get high. The bottom line is have an enjoyable experience with what you're about to witness, the imaginings of my teenage mind. Before I had my spiritual awakening and spirit science began. In between each episode, I'll share some fun details about the journey along the way, and at the end of this adventure, which will take about 30 minutes, I'll explain why I'm sharing this with you today on this channel. And so, without further ado, get ready to pause the video, get yourself super comfy, get into the state that you want to be in to take in this adventure. And when you're ready, press play, and let's begin. So right off the bat, these videos are so old, they pre-date YouTube. All of the videos were made in a program called Adobe Flash, and back in those days, you'd actually have to build the videos with a preloader and a main menu that people could see before the video started. And so this was the simple main menu for the first-ever episode. Can you do this? Luke, I can serve only my king. Hey, Grendel, you can never be forgiven for what you have done! Hey, Dad, why am I doing this? It's summer. Just think of it as your off-season training. As if I need it, I'm untouchable. Well, maybe I'm taking up carpentry. Yeah, unlikely. Well, maybe I'm building an ark. Oh, yeah? I think we're going to need some more wood then. Let's go home. It's getting dark anyways. Hey, Dad. We both know I want to become a royal guard. Next year I'll be 18, old enough to be enlisted. Protecting people? Sword fights? Dangerous quests? So excited for that action? Hey, what would you have done without me? Training with you all these years. I only wish that I was a better fighter than maybe I could have helped you out a bit more. You've helped me more than enough, and I thank you for that. Listen, though, it's a serious job. You could be killed any day, and I don't want that for you. And there's something I've been meaning to tell you. What is it? Luke Henry, come inside. It's getting cold out. I don't want you to catch a cold. You're hilarious. It's not even cold. I'll talk to you tomorrow morning. Do the job and get out of here. He's about to wake up. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, son, but after what you were a royal guard through on patrol and they saw the lights on in your house and lots of smashed windows, you went to take a look and we saw your parents on the ground. You were alive, but your parents were not so lucky. I'm sorry. No, mom, dad. I know everything's going to be OK. What's your name? Luke. Luke Helm. I have business I must attend to, but I will leave two of my best guards here to watch over you. Train. What? Train me. I want to help. Nowhere else to go. A family. Train me. Boss, this kid's got some spirit. Let's give him a chance. You know, Luke, if you're serious about this, it'll take a lot of hard work and determination. But I think I might even have someone in mind who can train you. What? Me? I swear it would be an honor. Who are you? Me? I'm Ray Grendel. Something that's really interesting about this first episode, you'll notice on the intro it said, exile remastered. I started the series before I ever got a drawing tablet. And with the very first episode, I wanted to do something unique and different and try my hand at hand drawing animation. So what I ended up doing was drawing most of the scenes by hand and then scanning them into the computer and then running a bitmap tracer inside of Flash on the drawings that I did, which gave everything this very unique style. Later on, when I did get a drawing tablet after making episode one, I went back and I redrew many of the scenes to bring them up to a more modern, updated style. And I added some details to the animations as well along the way. So what you've seen here today is the remastered version, but there is this other version available, too, which looks really sketchy, but has kind of a cool style. There's also one other thing that I want to bring up, which is that this isn't even the original telling of this story. So before I even made this version, I had started another telling, which was going to be basically the exact same, except the main character gets teleported from his home world into this alternate reality that he's a part of. And then the story continues in that version. The main character's name was Eric. And then when I restarted keeping him as a part of the world to begin with, his name was changed to Luke. Well, it's definitely improving. Thanks, bud. Still haven't as good as you are, though. Yes, but you are learning about twice as fast as anyone else. And you can already be a handful of people who've been training here for years. Thanks, bud. Come on, Luke, let's get you some water. You're not good to us dehydrated. I saw your fight. Ha-ha, you lost. So would you, Elaine. So, Elaine, how's messenger business treating you? Must be getting boring running around as a king's lackey all day. Not really. It's good exercise, and I can take my time with between different tasks. Oh yeah, that sounds real fun. You don't get to do cool, crazy sword moves with messages. Hey, Elaine. We were actually really hungry after our epic battle of how did you put it, Luke? Um, cool, crazy. Crazy sword moves. Yes, that's it. You can join us for some lunch. I think that sounds great. I haven't actually eaten today yet. Cool, crazy sword moves. Between the two of you, can you stop bringing that up? Ah, okay then. But really, why do you get yourself into the messenger business? More and more women are joining the scarths themselves. You would have done great. To be honest with you, I'm a little scared of war. But I was always really fast and reliable. Ha-ha, like a dog. Can you stop whispering about me? Anyways, I came here almost four years ago. Not much of a story to it. How about you, Ray? I? I was an orphan. I came here at the age of two. I was personally trained by King Aspen. When he died, I was eight. Then when Janus took over, he trained me personally as his apprentice. You haven't told me that actually. Sorry, Luke. It's a touchy topic for me. Since I lived with Aspen for six years, he became like a father to me. Of course, Janus did afterwards, but still, it's fine. Really? Well, it was all an excellent story. I became an excellent guard, and now we're right where we are. Hey, Luke, what about you? How did you come to be at this fine academy? I'm sorry. Are you alright? I'm not so hungry anymore. What about you guys? I didn't eat much. Looks like Luke did, either. Yeah, I'm pretty good. I could still train and not collapse from overeating. Hey, Ray, do you think I could borrow Luke for a bit? I actually have a message for him from the king. Really? How about this? You and Luke duke it out, and if Luke wins, I keep training him. And if you win, he's yours for the rest of the day. Okay. Can I just let her win? I mean, I'm pretty interested in this mess of hers. Don't worry, I just want to see how you've improved. You can go with her, regardless. Besides, she doesn't have super cool, easy sword moves. You'd be surprised. Okay, Luke, we play by my rules. All you have to do is knock me off. Whoever falls first loses. It's going to be easier than I thought. Well, I think out of all of the episodes, Episode 2 was the slowest pace and maybe the most boring. So congratulations if you've made it through this episode and are still watching. As a kid growing up, I think that I found so much excitement around the idea of having these epic sword battles, and so I wanted to try and make it a note to include at least one in every episode. And for that reason, I can see that it might have watered down the storytelling a little bit, because we could have got much more straight ahead, right to the plot. But I had to try and find more ways of including more fight scenes so as to make the series more entertaining. And that was the way that my little mind navigated the challenge of making entertaining content on the internet. Way back when. Hey, that was pretty good for a novice. And a messenger dog. What was that? Nothing. Seriously though, Luke, the message from the king, he wishes to speak with you. Oh yeah, what does Lord Janus want from me? I don't know, he just told me to find you and bring you back. Wow, some message that was, to see the king. Alright, I guess I'd better be off then, right? Yeah, go, go, go, go, go, go. Never even got that drink. I suppose he'd be in the throne room then, right? Actually, when he summoned me, he was in his quarters. We should probably go there first. I am capable of making it there on my own. You want to get rid of me that bad, don't you? Fine, I'll talk to you later. That's not what I meant. Fricking kids and their attitude, I'm just here trying to give a little help. But no, it's like, bam, tonight, bitch. There's other crap like, Okay, bye then. I presume? Yes, King Janus. Come. What are we looking at? I see all of the osu! Valley. Is it at peace? Well, yes. The gods of the Great King Muth are protected day and night with their lives. And let's not forget the enormous drop in crime rate since they were created. While this is correct, other things are not as they seem. What do you know of the Kingdom of Feralon? I know there are kingdoms across the Brescia Desert that's much less technologically advanced than we are. I know we used to try to support them, but for some reason they started to attack us, and more recently their attacks have been getting stronger. We've been needing more men to hold them back. Correct. Rey has been teaching me well. I haven't been in the fight yet though. Rey says that I'm not ready. You've only to wait for me a month, and thereafter you will be a full-time guard. I realize that. But sir, if you don't mind me asking, why have you summoned me here today? I have an assignment for you. But you and Rey, sir, you said that I could- Do not worry about that. He is as much a part of this mission as you are. I feel that it would make a good first assignment for you, and it shouldn't pose any danger to either of you, so long as you can run fast. What is my assignment? Feralon City's forces and weapons have been getting stronger, and I fear for the tranquility of my city. I will not have a savage civilization ruin our own. Luke, I need you to take hover-lances and fly out to Feralon. One of my scouts has found a small sewer dock on the outskirts of the city. He managed to find out that 20 kilometers down that long tunnel will lead directly to their weapons facility. You want us to blow it up? Precisely. I accept. To complete this mission, you must know how to properly ride and maneuver a hover-lances. Have you had any training before on the topic? Well, I've driven one before. So I suppose I have a little experience. While I'll have Rey give you a refresher course, and you will spend the next five days practicing, you may leave early, but it will probably be around five days from now. What's so important about five days? We are expecting another attack from Feralon soon. Five days is the approximate time given before we can assume an attack. Understood. Now, go and get some rest. I'm sure you'll be up early in the morning. Wow, I've never even... I've never seen this room before. Luke, don't you jaw at the floor. Dirt's bad for the digestive system. Rey! Rey, where are you going? Hover-lances are made so you can only go three meters in the air. We're up 40 stories. Yes, but not these ones. Whoa! Is this a bad time to tell you I'm scared of heights? Probably yes. Mmm, yes. You coming? At the very least, this is going to be interesting. Alright, well it seems that long last we've actually started to get some plot developing in addition to some more world-building. But I have to say, this world, as you're probably starting to notice, is really quite peculiar. They have this weird fusion of archaic and futuristic technology. Like, why is Elaine a messenger if they have computer technology to send each other messages through a digital medium? We also find them having advanced flying ships, but they also fight with sorts. It's still interesting to see, looking back, the way that this world was mashed together through the fusion and love of many of those things in pop culture fantasy storytelling that we all know and love so much just putting all of the genres together. I think it's also important that I take a moment to mention that with each one of these episodes you're seeing a long list of credits at the end and this really wasn't just a solo project. I had a number of friends in junior high and high school and then even college, as well as people who I'd met online who contributed their effort and their work to helping make this series a reality. And so people volunteered their voices and played as voice actors, as well as even a few friends handmade all of the music for this entire series, which is really, really cool. It really shows you that when even just kids have ambitions they can really rally together and make something that's pretty cool. No survivors like this bone but I definitely think all of the flickering orange really makes it much more pleasant. I have a message from a king for you he says it's nothing personal it's just business. Good job man but it's not over yet. Alright Luke I think you got in a hang of it after two days of flying I think we're pretty much set feel like a race? And you've already lost. I want your little smart ass. Alright first one around the city top of the guard tower wins. Alright Luke, here's the plan I'm gonna get things ready you need to go inform King Janus after that meet at the warehouse I'll have the bomb ready to go by then. Lord Janus, Farron soldiers have appeared at the western border Ray and I shall be departing now. Wow, three days early Thank you for informing me Luke I haven't had much fun in a while But kings aren't supposed to fight What would happen if you died? That won't happen I'm sorry to have offended you I shall take my leave now Luke you ready? Yeah. How's your armor fitting? Really nice actually Smashing Alright Luke, pay attention This is a bomb It isn't too big but it packs a punch I need you to watch my six while I handle it Got it Alright, now this is the fun part Alright soldiers, listen up As you all know, we're nearing Ozyk and the information is at the ready I'll need each and every one of you prepared to leave on my command As we are the diversion team I'll need you all paying close attention to your radios As soon as the two other ships reach Ozyk we will retreat and they will bomb the eastern borders My old guys are lined up at Ozyk's borders but we've spotted a long soldier approaching fast Brooks Yes sir Go show the lone ranger why he shouldn't take fear in lightly I'll take care of him captain Alright Set up a few bomb scouts to go around and wait That might not be necessary You've been wearing your helmet Bomb was meant for the weapons facility Meh, I brought two You knew we would need it We're headed to the Cheech Eye Oasis right? Then we'll stay there overnight Ray I've been wondering this for a while Why do you always wear green? I like green Ah On a serious topic I don't know much about it But this whole war with the kingdom of Farron Was it really caused by us showing support? It just seems too drastic to me Luke, there's a hell of a lot more going on in Farron than you know But at least there was And I'm not as well informed as Janus Or that old fart Leonis Who? The man who introduced me to you Ah I do know that the random poorly planned attacks from Farron now Have a lot to do with the war 18 years ago Well it was Janus who restored peace When he gained the throne after Aspen died Since then Farron's been planning something I can't say what Maybe the negotiations were not in their favor Then why would they agree to those negotiations? I was very young at the time Aspen, my mentor just died But I do remember hearing about it I don't even know if there were negotiations The attacks just Stopped Janus did something But nobody knows what And he's praised for it Anyway Tomorrow's boom day for that weapons facility Better get some rest Yeah Yeah Alright and that brings us To our final episode This last episode in particular Also was the one that saw the biggest jump in quality Bar none I reached a big turning point in my own personal growth And really put 110% Into this video Now the challenge was though Is that I still made a lot of work for myself More than what was necessary And so I would often end up Animating significantly more Than what was required in order to tell the story efficiently It's for this reason that It took 4 years to make 4 episodes If I was to look back And could have been a little bit more efficient I probably could have produced 8 to 10 episodes In that same amount of time But We live and we learn And this was a wonderful learning experience And to be honest with you I'm really excited to tell the story the right way Both in a book And in a full length animated series Wow You made it through the whole thing huh So this story has been very near And dear to my heart for a very long time It's a story that Never went away even when I was making Spirit Science And I've been slowly working on it Tinkering with it But entirely in secret I wasn't ready to tell this story for a long time And the biggest reason for that Is that I don't have time to write it I am so busy With spirit science And everything that's required in keeping up with it That this story has often just Received only light amounts of my time Now originally As you saw this story was called Exile But today It has transformed to being called elixir It's called elixir For two reasons One being that there is a central Aspect of the story That revolves around a particular transcendental Liquid Much like an elixir of life Or a psychedelic brew But also On a more meta level It's called elixir because the story is meant to be An elixir for our human Consciousness today This story has developed a lot Very much thanks to the spiritual transformations That I've personally been through All of the stuff of spirit science The sacred geometry, the dimensions The hidden human history story All of consciousness, the lost technologies All of these things Are deeply embedded And rooted into this story today And it's something that I'm really excited to share But even today I still do have that same problem as before Where I don't have the time to write it fully And so there are several intentions behind why I'm sharing this today I do hope that by sharing this And sharing my intention to tell this story That I'll find the perfect person Who has a passion for creative writing Who might be interested in collaborating with me On this project But in addition to that I want to see this turned into a proper Full length series Just as I always envisioned it As a child I thank you again for watching And taking the time to enjoy this story with me I hope that it was a fun ride And here's wishing you A very happy new year