The author first started writing the concept of what would one day develop into the Human Born series when he was attending college. He had completed Acolytes (Blood Oath), Prodigal Son (Arcane Inheritance), Emerald Intrigue, and Children of Gaia (Garden of Gaia). He had begun this story, but never completed it. It was a dramatically different version than what this book developed into.

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Lilly makes reference to the idea of letting Phillip develop an entire lifetime of memories before waking up in her world. That is what happened in the original, he wakes up as nothing more than a skull with eyeballs attached to his brain sitting on a workbench. It was pretty horrifying concept but told through his perception. Each scene shows his developing body as they attach more of him. Eventually, when he is fully created, he is sent up to the upper floors where he is exposed to the inner workings of the administration running the European Alliance, the kind of hub of individuals reacting to everything in the nation.

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That's where the story ended. The author never developed it further. Where it began was with a dream. He was climbing up through a framework of a building, reaching the top where someone was in charge. That's when he first had the idea of a "god" running everything from this incredibly tall spire of a structure.

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Originally the core cast was Nia, Daisy, Lilly, and Mari (short for Marigold). Phillip didn't wake up until the last two chapters leaving little room for interaction and character growth. He wakes up, they react to that, and the novel is over. There was an obvious need for changes that were eventually made. The first was adding an interaction between Phillip and Doctor Kindred in every other scene.