i hope you feel somewhat better soon!
okay you gave me the thumbs up to ramble so ramble i will. be prepared to read a chapter book. i spent six years developing these stories through roleplay characters and the time i've spent on flightrising has really helped me with world building. all of my dragons are humanoid ocs that i've moved onto here.
i recently did a complete reorganization of my tabs to better fit my lore. it used to be organized by family but now it's essentially lore categories. anything that is a part of the main universe but not the main story is now in hib den (minus midas who's awaiting cooldown).
basically, the lore follows one major storyline (characters under 'the slain') and the surrounding tabs either have events and characters that lead up to the main story, or are results of the main story. these were five novels that i was planning to write as time went on, but i realized that they were much better as a plethora of short stories, minus children of the slain which is actually a novel. i've written out a first draft.
i. children of the wyvern
the characters in this part of the lore are under 'the wyvern'. it's meant to introduce the main realm where most of the lore takes place. midea is the main realm. it's the home of the fey and split into many kingdoms/territories full of many subspecies. the largest and most powerful twelve kingdoms form the 'fey council' and basically make all executive decisions for the realm. vidreterra is not a kingdom, rather a nice land of democratic peoples that kinda just chill (the nyban). the thing is, vidreterra is right in the middle between two rival kingdoms: chrysolitus and svartalfhela. chrysolitus is an economic hub and its council representative is the head of the fey council. svartalfhela is a desert biome full of blacksmiths, miners, and fighters who are suffering because they can't thrive off their land. a mass majority of their food is imported, but it's never enough to feed the entire nation and so they demand chrysolitus to go easy on them. chrysolitus kinda sucks, though. they're racist, so they obviously don't.
cue a war. vidreterra is caught in the middle and everytime there's an ongoing battle, the nyban have to flee to the northern mountains just to hope that they can survive. their land is constantly walked over and used as a battlefield because they're just not on the fey council, and therefore chrysolitus won't care about them being trampled.
this is wisteria clematis. she's a nyban, as well as this story's main character. in the northern mountains while the umpteenth battle is going on, wisteria talks to her family about the possibility of change. obviously the other nyban want change, but who the hell is going to talk to the fey council about it?
the nyban send wisteria and her siblings to midea's main citadel. the result? i haven't thought of it yet lol
ii. children of the sun
uh oh some years pass and aphaeleon xyrcan is now the head of the fey council. quite a bit of the story follows aphaeleon's kids and the 'perfect fey' ordeal. luxens (the people of chrysolitus) are quite special. the less kids they have the better. the very last kid they are able to have as a couple is called the perfect fey. this child is free of blemishes and societal imperfections. they're able-bodied and neurotypical. so, the older siblings in a bigger family will be... not "perfect".
ryker for example, is blind.
the war starts up again. the main characters in this part of the lore are under 'the sun'. because the war had been halted for so long, there are quite a few luxens who aren't too fond of it, including aphaeleon's kids.
bellaluna is the perfect fey in the xyrcan family but also hates what her dad is doing. she's got this internal conflict going on about the path she's meant to take in life, versus the one she wants to take. her dad wants her to inherit his place on the fey council once he retires. she doesn't want to. on the other hand, ryker, and one of the older boys, naevys, quite like the idea of being on the council, but aphaeleon doesn't approve of this because ryker is blind and naevys has a leg that doesn't work all too well.
so the war is still going while the xyrcan kids have these issues. the mørklox (svartalfhela's people) have begun to send spies in. among them, is khali crowther.
she comes into contact with the xyrcan siblings and winds up falling in love with zenaida xyrcan. so basically gay romeo and juliet because their families are enemies or something. at the very end, aphaeleon loses two kids. andromeda gets caught up in a crossfire and is killed, and zenaida and khali run off to vidreterra's northern mountains together because they fear what could happen if they get caught, particularly because zenaida is a council member's daughter.
aphaeleon begins to question whether the war is actually worth it or not.
iii. children of the shadow (or blade, haven't decided)
this is the one that's a plethora of short stories. the tavrinths (under warriors) were among the first settlers on midea and became protectors of the main citadel. protection became unnecessary as time went on though, but the tavrinths were still paid big bucks by the council and had complementary housing within the citadel. so they stopped training and became more of a rich family, as well as a dying clan.
these short stories follow the tavrinth brothers (vaxas and mallius). all i really have so far is that vaxas was a part of an uprising in a kingdom and became the new general of midea's citadel forces. he's kinda delusional, but who the hell is gonna stop him? no one lol. he's my favourite oc.
mallius, on the other hand, travels to a different realm called masdurett, and becomes the royal army's general.
iv. children of the slain
this is the main plot, and the characters are under 'the slain'. there's also a dragon in that tab called 'lore' where i'm trying to rewrite the novel.
despite the realm's very old age, a kingdom was not established until very late because the prophets all feared a disaster that was going to come along with the seventh generation royal children. people began to demand leadership because of crime rates and a certain necromancer clan that kept wreaking havoc and playing with the dead. hearing about this, midea's fey council implements a kingdom, ruled over by masdurett's founding family. midea has a very close relation to masdurett, and to maintain the alliance, they trade babies every one thousand years.
eventually, we get to the seventh generation, beginning with
allan and
serena masdurett. allan is the first heir. perfect kid and all that. serena was the second born, meant to be the second princess. however, someone steals the entire kid. she makes her rounds but the royal family can never find her. she eventually winds up at an orphanage because as it turns out, this kid can sing like a siren and escape her kidnappers every single time.
the king and queen have a third kid, remaining unnamed because they trade this one off to midea to retain the alliance. the queen heads to midea, and comes back with natalie masdurett and another changeling named drake who is meant to be natalie's bodyguard. the king decides to allow drake to become one of the royal children.
around this time, amelia skadis elwyn is still with her biological parents, a fallen valkyrie, and a necromancer, who was a part of the clan that terrorized masdurett in the earlier days. terrance elwyn is... terrible, to say in the least.
one night, the town they're living in is set ablaze. amelia's father is trying to put out the fire, but her mother knows that the town won't make it. she's a fallen valkyrie, after all. she takes amelia and heads to the nearest orphanage, miles off from their town. she drops amelia off and promises that she will come back and get her once it's all over, and they'll run away together and find a new town.
terrance gets trapped in a burning building as he tries to retrieve his tools. his wife comes back in the nick of time and saves him, but she becomes trapped in his place. terrance leaves her to die in the fire and never retrieves his daughter from the orphanage.
amelia and serena meet and become best friends. at some point within the next few years,
evan joins them. he was raised at the orphanage as he's been there since the day he was born.
the king and queen walk in one day with natalie. they want more freaking kids. in short, they choose serena and evan, as well as amelia who was very stubborn to leave. apparently, the queen wanted to choose kids with magickal potential, and as it stood, serena already had her voice, and amelia was able to see auras. natalie just liked the vibes that evan put off.
so that's six royal children.
at some point, natalie begins to grow closer to her siblings. they play with some kids around the palace, some duchesses, but the six of them are particularly close with the head maid's daughter, sophie. eventually, natalie is close enough to amelia that she shows her a spot in the library that holds three grimoires written by the old prophets. and she finds a prophecy.
the princess' birthday, ten at last,
the devil's escape shall come to pass.
for an heir that is evil to the core
the crow will call the devil’s war.
the seven royals of children’s past,
gone together, one at last.
the trapper,
the seeker,
the keeper,
the hope,
the joy,
the dreams,
the heart.
now in one shell combined,
to stop the evil of nature’s time.
sound the bells of war,
ring them loud and clear,
the devil’s war shall come to pass
and none shall become heir.
so amelia spends several years trying to decipher it and honestly, everything's just chill until natalie's tenth birthday. they had been training and learning with the hope that one day, the realm can be ruled by the six of them together. natalie's birthday banquet begins. the palace is eerily quiet. the king and queen are making small conversation in the throne room as the kids get ready.
long story short, it's a trap. there's a demon running free in the palace. as soon as everyone is in the same room, the demon binds the kids to place and murders the king and queen. allan breaks everyone free and escapes with them through a labyrinth beneath the palace. once they're safe in the garden, allan leaves on his own to process their mother and father's death. in his moment of weakness, the demon possesses him.
allan seems to be completely normal when he returns to the group, but amelia recalls the prophecy and wonders if this is the beginning of the disaster. however, she realizes that the prophecy calls for seven titles and there are still only six royal children.
it isn't until the head maid mysteriously dies and sophie joins the family that amelia pieces together what's going on. allan gets colder towards his siblings, but still remains just as gentle to outsiders. he starts speaking of power and the future of masdurett when he is king, forgetting that they were meant to share the realm.
balls still continue to be thrown, but ever so slowly, the maids and butlers begin to disappear. those who aren't disappearing begin to quit their jobs out of fear for their lives. such is the effect of the devil's war.
at a ball, amelia meets the new commander of masdurett's royal army, mallius tavrinth. he's some years older than her, but holy crap she's in love. and even with her analytical mindset she refuses to believe that mallius was working with allan and just trying to get information through her fancy for him.
eventually, natalie, drake, amelia, serena, sophie and evan have to run off. it was to the point where allan was being violent towards his siblings and it was very apparent that he was under the control of an eldritch being.
in a number of years, the palace is dark and empty and allan serves himself. the royal children formulate a plan to take him down as they themselves, grow stronger.
at the very end, allan takes all of them down. natalie uses the last of her life energy to preserve the souls of her siblings and ensure that they live on for the rest of time. it is at this point, when amelia is floating through the cosmos, bound to her amulet, that she realizes that when the prophecy says "none shall become heir", it doesn't mean that they are equals and that good wins the devil's war. it means that allan has risen up to the position of being something much bigger than an heir, and that masdurett cannot be saved.
v. the chariot
this particular set of short stories follows the adventures of xia argon.
i'll keep her backstory short, but essentially, her parents are explorers that didn't want a kid to weigh them down. they left xia at an orphanage. she grows up and gets attached to the wrong people, gets in trouble, and has to flee. she stumbles upon an old rickety mansion and the woman inside takes her in as a worker.
after discovering some books in the library, she talks to this woman about magick and the woman allows xia to become her apprentice. after the apprenticeship ends, the woman gifts xia an amulet that will allow her a higher level of energy control.
the same amulet that amelia masdurett had been bound to at the end of the devil's war.
bing bong
hope i didn't bore you to death lol
