*waves*
Name: Olram
World: Anthem
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy/Horror/Humor/Romance/Political thriller
Challenge: Eggnog, Vanilla, and Lemon-Lime Sorbet 8D
Yours Truly:
Sup. I'm Olram. I'm a political science undergrad at Purdue. I've been writing hardcore since I was in eighth grade. And I'm a prompt addict. Found out about you guys at WriYe and decided to give things a roll.
The Setting:
My stories take place in a world, geographically, and, at its core, the same as ours. However--on top of and beneath all our mortal governments and such lies the magical world of angels, demons, and all sorts of other interesting characters.
Politically, the magical world is divided up much like it was during the Cold War, with the Russian-Based K'maneda having control of the former USSR, much of Asia and East Europe, and, is strangely, fighting over control of England and France.
In the West, based in the Americas and the center of Europe, is the Aelina and their angelic allies. Their non-religious groups control the bulk of Southeast Asia.
Africa south of the Sahara is No Man's Land. Or, rather, it's the Snakes' land. You don't go there, comrade. At least, you didn't until the K'maneda started employing Snakes.
The Story:
It's mostly based around a novel series by the name of Anthem, and the various wacky hijinks of a troupe of very maladjusted mages. I'm thinking the RATS portions will take place in all parts of the story--way before, way after, and during, but I plan to keep each flavor set to a certain place in time and a certain set of characters. The plot for the novel, though, is basically the Cold War gone hot, only with magic instead of nukes. And you're on the side of the Russians. Or, rather, they're who you're stuck with.
Julia is an average girl. Well, was, to her better knowledge. Then her uncle showed up, and so did some demons, and a big fluffy angel by the name of Lucy (as in Lucifer) who decided inside her head was a sweet spot to live in. Then everything sort of started to go downhill. Our hard-hearted, vengeful, protagonist figured something like that would happen.
Her uncle is a rather prim, proper, black-wearing lunatic who goes by the name of Genesis. (Gen to his "friends", Genny if you're feeling suicidal) Genesis the Destroyer. This dude's got no mercy. His main goals are to a) liberate all oppressed peoples of the world by venting his destructive tendencies upon their governments b) Kill the archangel Gabriel and destroy his organization, the Aelina, c) Keep his army, the K'maneda, from completely slacking off and letting the world get taken over by the forces of Good. Add looking after Julia on top of all this, and you get one cranky Englishman.
The forces of Good, in this case, include the Archangel Gabriel, who's hell bent on bringing Heaven to earth, by making everyone follow the rules and play nice, Or Else. Also making appearances are Genesis's psychotic twin brother, Arias, who was leased to Gabriel on a limited time basis by the Devil, Julia's father, David, who just always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a succubus by the name of Karin, who wants to keep Genesis' best friend locked up in her bedroom forever and ever.
This friend being Mirk, the healer. The noble son of the Cathedral Guardian in charge of watching over all of France's Catholics, Mirk was raised to be a priest. However, through a series of unfortunate events involving the Devil creating Karin to plague him forever and ever, his whole family ended up dead, and he became Genesis' apprentice. He's caught between the two groups--pious to God and Heaven, but honor-bound to serve Genesis and his army. Furthermore, as Julia becomes increasingly alarmed to notice, the inevitably destructive relationship between the cheerful, moral Mirk and Genesis the godless killer seems to run deeper than either of them want to admit...
Add in Gabriel's only son, K'aekniv, the crazy head of the even crazier K'ameneda's Russian First Infantry Division (Nickname? The Fist of the Motherland. Motto? Shoot it till it dies.), who is brought back from the dead and brainwashed into hating his former Division until Drastic Measures are taken, and you've got a story. An Epic Battle for the sovereignty of Earth, an internal struggle for the anti-social Julia to accept her role as the world's foremost empath and Lucifer's apprentice, and the epic trainwreck that is Mirk and Genesis' messed-up more-than friendship.
As for the Snakes, well, they run with the Mafia, and they're a whole other story. Kinda. Sorta. But I believe I've gone on quite long enough. XD
More characters are included than those mentioned here. As well as more connected factions, such as the aforementioned Snakes, along with Djin, Qu'advin, gods, pool pirates, corporate land-sharks, a whole ton of doctors, some no-good detectives, a Constitutional Court, SIDS babies come back to life, and some meddling mathemagicians. But, everything in its own time.
World: Anthem
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy/Horror/Humor/Romance/Political thriller
Challenge: Eggnog, Vanilla, and Lemon-Lime Sorbet 8D
Yours Truly:
Sup. I'm Olram. I'm a political science undergrad at Purdue. I've been writing hardcore since I was in eighth grade. And I'm a prompt addict. Found out about you guys at WriYe and decided to give things a roll.
The Setting:
My stories take place in a world, geographically, and, at its core, the same as ours. However--on top of and beneath all our mortal governments and such lies the magical world of angels, demons, and all sorts of other interesting characters.
Politically, the magical world is divided up much like it was during the Cold War, with the Russian-Based K'maneda having control of the former USSR, much of Asia and East Europe, and, is strangely, fighting over control of England and France.
In the West, based in the Americas and the center of Europe, is the Aelina and their angelic allies. Their non-religious groups control the bulk of Southeast Asia.
Africa south of the Sahara is No Man's Land. Or, rather, it's the Snakes' land. You don't go there, comrade. At least, you didn't until the K'maneda started employing Snakes.
The Story:
It's mostly based around a novel series by the name of Anthem, and the various wacky hijinks of a troupe of very maladjusted mages. I'm thinking the RATS portions will take place in all parts of the story--way before, way after, and during, but I plan to keep each flavor set to a certain place in time and a certain set of characters. The plot for the novel, though, is basically the Cold War gone hot, only with magic instead of nukes. And you're on the side of the Russians. Or, rather, they're who you're stuck with.
Julia is an average girl. Well, was, to her better knowledge. Then her uncle showed up, and so did some demons, and a big fluffy angel by the name of Lucy (as in Lucifer) who decided inside her head was a sweet spot to live in. Then everything sort of started to go downhill. Our hard-hearted, vengeful, protagonist figured something like that would happen.
Her uncle is a rather prim, proper, black-wearing lunatic who goes by the name of Genesis. (Gen to his "friends", Genny if you're feeling suicidal) Genesis the Destroyer. This dude's got no mercy. His main goals are to a) liberate all oppressed peoples of the world by venting his destructive tendencies upon their governments b) Kill the archangel Gabriel and destroy his organization, the Aelina, c) Keep his army, the K'maneda, from completely slacking off and letting the world get taken over by the forces of Good. Add looking after Julia on top of all this, and you get one cranky Englishman.
The forces of Good, in this case, include the Archangel Gabriel, who's hell bent on bringing Heaven to earth, by making everyone follow the rules and play nice, Or Else. Also making appearances are Genesis's psychotic twin brother, Arias, who was leased to Gabriel on a limited time basis by the Devil, Julia's father, David, who just always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a succubus by the name of Karin, who wants to keep Genesis' best friend locked up in her bedroom forever and ever.
This friend being Mirk, the healer. The noble son of the Cathedral Guardian in charge of watching over all of France's Catholics, Mirk was raised to be a priest. However, through a series of unfortunate events involving the Devil creating Karin to plague him forever and ever, his whole family ended up dead, and he became Genesis' apprentice. He's caught between the two groups--pious to God and Heaven, but honor-bound to serve Genesis and his army. Furthermore, as Julia becomes increasingly alarmed to notice, the inevitably destructive relationship between the cheerful, moral Mirk and Genesis the godless killer seems to run deeper than either of them want to admit...
Add in Gabriel's only son, K'aekniv, the crazy head of the even crazier K'ameneda's Russian First Infantry Division (Nickname? The Fist of the Motherland. Motto? Shoot it till it dies.), who is brought back from the dead and brainwashed into hating his former Division until Drastic Measures are taken, and you've got a story. An Epic Battle for the sovereignty of Earth, an internal struggle for the anti-social Julia to accept her role as the world's foremost empath and Lucifer's apprentice, and the epic trainwreck that is Mirk and Genesis' messed-up more-than friendship.
As for the Snakes, well, they run with the Mafia, and they're a whole other story. Kinda. Sorta. But I believe I've gone on quite long enough. XD
More characters are included than those mentioned here. As well as more connected factions, such as the aforementioned Snakes, along with Djin, Qu'advin, gods, pool pirates, corporate land-sharks, a whole ton of doctors, some no-good detectives, a Constitutional Court, SIDS babies come back to life, and some meddling mathemagicians. But, everything in its own time.