Friday, November 5, 2004

   Reign

Well, I'm seriously considering revamping a three year old idea of mine for a story. I've said this same thing before, but this time I think I might actually mean it. I love the characters and I don't want to let them die. Same thing with K,S&E. I don't want them to die either. I've been living with them for seven years or so. Too long to let them go. Reign is basically a fantasy. I don't even know what I'm going to do with it. I want to keep the Forest in there, 'cause I like the idea a lot. Its a place set outside the natural order of things. You forget everything for a time once you enter (until you are ready to remember), and entering is in itself a very difficult thing to do 'cause its all magicked out. Its a prison for a 'god' who fell in love with a mortal woman, which to the Immortals is a crime. They also had a child, a daughter, which is an even bigger no no to them. You know, maybe I ought to use that whole daughter thing. The Temple of the Moon could have been founded by his daughter, who, being half Immortal, would have certain powers. Then again, that might be making things a little complicated, even more than they already are and Lord knows I don't need that. Anyway. So, Cairan was imprisoned for his 'crimes.' Meanwhile, another of the Immortals, Fianne, is plotting to destroy the entire Mortal realm. See, she is one of those wacked out psychopaths on a power trip that want to get rid of anything and everything that she sees as inferior, i.e. the entire human race and the place in which they live, bringing everyone else down with them. Furthermore, she wants to do it using the Orb of Kayeln. In the beginning the nine Immortals used chaos to create the planet earth (we'll just say it's earth, okay?), then, not being able to get rid of it completely, kinda shoved it into the Orb, because although chaos can be used to create, it can also be used to destroy. They entrusted it to the Elves for safe keeping, as they were the only race that wouldn't get power hungry and blow everything to kingdom come. I told you this was complicated. There are many, many Elven civilizations spread across the map, so Fianne has a hard time finding it. She somehow gets a seat of power during this time and is creating mass destruction and all out war in the process of finding this thing and has been for like fifty years. The Elves at some point get the Orb to the Priestesses of the Moon. They are better equipt to protect it, especially since 1. they have powers, too, and are about the only humans that do, and 2. the longer an Immortal stays in the Mortal realm the weaker they become, so by the time Fianne figures out where it is the priestesses have a pretty good chance of taking her on and winning. But the head priestess has a niece, Liadan, that she had never met but still loves very, very much and Fianne finds this out and after having the girl kidnapped uses her as a bargaining tool. Basically, give me what I want or you'll never see the girl again. Btw, Fianne sends her to the Forest, since very few people know about it and ever fewer can actually get in there even if they did know about it. There are only three people living in the Forest. Cairan, as mentioned before, and two children that 'happened' to wander in there named Rhyn and Maddox. Maddox is a blind half Elf (*smiles and glomps Maddie-chan* he's my baby) and Rhyn . . . well, she has the potential to be something very great and Cairan knows it and is teaching her everything she will need to know in order to control and use whatever abilities she has been given. Right now, that basically consists of learning herb lore and practical healing skills and the like. It is Rhyn that finds Liadan, unconscious and badly beated under a willow tree. As you might have guessed, she brings her back to the little cottage they live in. Liadan is already having dreams about her aunt, the High Priestess, although she has no idea who the woman is. She was raised by her 'aunt' and 'uncle' in a small village. She has no idea who her real parents were. She thinks they died in a raid. In reality, they were killed for politcal reasons and Liadan's 'aunt' and 'uncle' were really long time servants of her father's family. She also has a fiance named Jan, who is the only one that remembers Liadan after she disappears (his parents think he's crazy). Fianne figured it might cause her too many problems if there were people coming after the girl. A small inconvenience, but one that can be avoided. Jan, of course, goes looking for his woman, along with Liadan's 'cousin,' Niamh, who is in love with him. She gives him up when she realizes that he is in love with someone else and that someone else was very important to her even though she can't remember her. Jan and Niamh, in turn, get taken prisoner by a rebel camp (rebel as in opposing Fianne), which is run by Rhyn's older brother, Liam, who she thinks is dead like the rest of her family. That is all I know, right there. The only other thing I can tell you is this: Rhyn, Maddox, and Liadan are sent from the Forest and eventually the two groups meet up, then go kick some Fianne butt. Most of them have suffered at her hands: Rhyn's mother, father, and baby sister were killed (and, she thought, her brother), her grandfather was sold into slavery; ditto for Liam (he thought Rhyn was dead, too); Maddox lost his entire family, his village, and his eyesight; Liadan was beaten and thrown headlong into something way too big for her to understand; Jan 'lost' his fiance . . . They were all affected so they all have reason to want fight. Wow. This is waaay long. I'm going to stop now before you all fall asleep on me. Bye bye!

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