Jan 20, 2005 13:55
So after much prodding poking and other wise social torturing I have started writing a book. To be honest I have put it off for a long time because I have felt neither my writing skills nor typing skills are up to par with my imagination. But as with all things in my life I said F@$& it and started writing any how. The story is a fantasy novel. It takes Place in a world called Alaria that is known to the gods as a battle world. It was created so that the gods/goddesses could battle out there disagreements. You see they realized that being Avatars of different laws of Reality they can not destroy each other with out destroying everyone else including themselves. So they created these realms where a fraction of there powers could bleed though and there minions could battle over who was right and wrong about something.
The world was originally created when two of the six elder gods got into a fight. They fought on the edge of there realms and threw Majiks and Mystica at one another across the void and in doing so created a rift between all the 6 gods realms. The rift started to draw in all the realms into itself till they all combined there powers to seal it. They all used so much of there powers to save there realms that they went to sleep for a long time. When they awoke what they saw was the first of the battle realms a world and solar system that was a combination of all there powers and in the center was a planet populated with new being not unlike themselves. They watched the new being until they noticed they were doing things similar to themselves with Majika, Mystica, and Harmonia. On of them even looked up to the gods and asked them to come down and talk with them. When they did these new beings told them that they too were gods. They were floating beyond all that was and watching until the rift was created and that then they knew all. When the rift happened they knew that the only way to stop it was to bind themselves to the active universe as avatars themselves and create new laws to prevent the destruction of everything. With this they were welcomed to the heavens and went on to create there own dimensional heavens. After that they created thousands of Battle worlds to fight one another to prevent the rift from forming again.
After a long time The same two gods got into a fight on the first battle world ( by then the gods had forgotten which one was first) and went at it again they drew more power through there nodes on this world ( the conduit by which the gods and later humans can draw on the arts in this realm) Then they were both destroyed or so the gods were lead to think. Since the worlds are designed to shunt off the looser of the battles do to who had more energy in the plane no god or there minions could stay on this realm for long. The fall out of the two gods remaining on the planet. The gods tried to collectively pull apart the world only then to discover it was binding the void. With that they quarantined it. Periodically they would send minions to the world to send reports but after a while they stopped returning.
After the “death” of the gods the residual energies permeated the inhabitants of the planet. Humans ( there are a few other sentient races the Sky Whales, Crafters, and Silkien who were created by the gods to maintain the realms in there presence is hidden from the humans or at least there natures in the case of the sky whales) were altered by there energies and now they can use the different Majika, Mystica, and Harmonia. Three new races adapted from humans have evolved as well from the humans. When they embrace the source they go through a physical change Males skin turning the shades of the night sky ( greens to blues) hair purple, silver, white, blue, black with highlights. Eyes gem colored. Females skin turn colors of sunset ( pink to orange to yellow) eyes metallic and hair reds, gold, ect. Finally are the humans who give up gender and ability to reproduce. They have no set pattern to there beauty but tend to take on insect like coloring and can not revert to there human form once there true nature is revealed. These gifted live 10 to 20 times longer then the natural human life span.
The magic system is very straight forward there are internal magic’s that affect the body known as Mystica altering shape, size, color, strength, adapting to there environment. External magic called Majika that affects lightning, fire, water, earth, time, inertia, sonics. And then the Hamonia’s that grant The ability to See the Futures, Read minds, move objects mentally, project the image and see over distances, know the true nature of all things ect. They can be interwoven by skilled users. To harness the magic’s though you need to travel to the nodal origin of the skill you wish to acquire. Some are regularly known and others are not. These nodes are also now being tapped by the Toscali empire ( an empire of merchant guilds) to create energy and build cities. There is fast travel around the world through the Tran’ Tak Slip Ships. And plenty of food do to Zerobi a tropical island that has a specialized majika dealing with control of plants.
Finally there are Schools of magics the Skie-Rheanas sisters of truth, Fat Da Hean brothers of fate, Jal ha Harea Watchers of life, and The guilds of the Tosacali as well as the Brothers of Wood, warriors who feel to forge metal is sacrilege. And The cult of the tongue who believe all magic users are evil and the gifted are half Skrinn and should be killed. Skrinn by the way are the minions of the gods that occasionally pass through the nodes and are battled by javelin mercenary groups sanctioned and paid by the Toscali empire as long as you bring them the Soul stone ( the powering item that allows the Skrinn to exist on this world) to them so they can use it in the creation of the Majika, Mystica, and Harmonia generators. Also there is an Isolated nation know as Crestfallen that has cliffs 1k feet high surrounding the island nation and the node of Air. And the hidden nation of the Atlandu who can change there color and hid there cities with light bending majika as well as hiding the race of crafters who supply them with advanced enchanted items.
Well that the basics if you read through the whole thing and seem interested let me know I’m almost done the first three chapters of the first book and have the Creation story written if you would all like to read it.
Love always
Prince of Aleria The Creative Dream
Scott