freelanceangel Wrote:flarablaze Wrote:
Now note, thats all I have so far. I'm still working out what the different races are, different cities, different countries, cultures... everything!! It's so much fun! <!-- s
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Isn't it? I love my city. ^_^ Of course, I'm working within an urban fantasy setting- that's much easier to manage than creating the high fantasy setting from scratch. It sounds like it'd make an awesome D&D game. (All good high fantasy should become D&D adventures. ^_~) What are your main characters like? Have you developed them beyond the princess? Have you thought about using someone who's not a princess? (Just a quirk of mine- I don't think royalty should be in EVERY high fantasy story.) Possibly someone who works with the royal family, in the castle or along those lines?
Yes. I let myself go and discovered a whole thing about Sky-Walkers, a tribe of people similar to the mayans yet also interestingly like otherkin. The Star Queen and her two daughters were killed 1500 years ago (or rather the queen was killed, Raevyn saw it and Selene only heard about it later) and are now reborn in new bodies, in a world overtaken by humans (they are elves) Or rather, so the humans think. I also have gemstone people, in a society across the sea that the humans (They call their country Terrhathla) refuse to accept exists. They also refuse to accept that dragons exist farther south, and that desert people live north-west of their country. They choose to believe everything is abandoned and spread stories of how star-gazing is evil, and that if you go outside of the city "bad things will get you".
I've developed all the characters that I've thought of so far, at least on a personality basis. I have but I don't know that it would work nearly as well. I might use a Lord's daughter though. I want to use some form of royalty though because of the fact that it has more of an impact, and I want the bard (Vara) to look at her and be like "O_O Leilani?? What are you doing here??". The interest of a good story is what brings Vara along with the rest.
The main characters- The overall main characters are really going to shift slightly, it will be more like there are a few main characters and the story itself is about three. Nemontana, a necromancer/witch who is Raevyn reborn (Raevyn is the daughter who took some of the survivors and created the Ravens guild, a secret society that teaches of the Sky-Walkers, and on the surface is for assassins and other not so nice and pretty professions. However, Raevyn reborn is not OF the Raven Guild, nor is she interested in joining, ironically <!-- s

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Then there is Renata/Rae. She is a peasant girl who has the birthmark of a Star Chosen, a Queen for the Sky-Walkers. Kinda cliche, I know. I'm debating shifting this to something else as well, but I think it fits. I may shift the Star Queen role to Phaedra though, who is a Drae'kyn'adra assassin who left her clan and makes as much trouble for them as possible <!-- s

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And then there is a Gemstone girl, her gemstone type is going to be Amethyst who is Selene reborn.
The gemstone girl, Nemontana, and Rae are the most important
Phaedra, Nyx, Flint, Leilani, Rowena, Faol are also very important, and so is Vara.
The main important civilizations are going to be the Sky-Walkers (Selene when she left reformed them, after 100 years. The Sky-Walkers were elves. However, they are now called the Star-Watchers), Terrhathla, The Nightmare woods (in the south is where Centaurs and Dragons live) Minnyraal canyon is where they find the gemstone people, there is also the People of the Sea, the Desert people, and the Abandoned. (Exiles and runaways, etc, by Minnyraal canyon on the other side of the sea.