Friday, January 4, 2008

   dittly-dittly-dee
So, in Epic news, because I have to talk about it in every post. I'll probably finish Teseo's and Shadi's backstory today. It's so horrible. Not the backstory, the fact that when Epic starts Teseo's been dead for eight years and Shadi's been dead for tweleve. They both played a big role in Zephyr development though so I had to get thier part written down. Yes, I'm still on Zephyr. I should be working on Byely or Rixari, but I can't work on them they way I can Zephyr. Zephyr's practically alive. Byely is just a standard monarchy and Rixari is...odd. They're also a lot older then Zephyr so they've got mythology. Well, not Byely, but Rixari. Zephyr's our most well developed country and it'll probably always be no matter the work we put in with the others. And that's because the country rides so heavily on the von Bavol and the other six noble families. Ai said, "If the six noble families are the spine of Zephyr, then the von Bavol is the heart" or something like that. Oh, I just quoted a fictional character of my own creation. That's creepy. Well, no creepier then recieving mail from them I suppose.

My Christmas package from Unsaid said it was from Inay de la Requiem. Now that was creepy. I have a spot for Inay, but he's one of the last characters I'd want mail from. I want mail from Trini just so that when his fangirls appear I can say he sent me a letter and not them. Other then that, I wouldn't want mail from him either. I don't want mail from anyone dead, anyone evil, anyone who creeps me out, or Ah-nee, or Ai. I know them too well to know what they'd send me. Biting envelope or something. Okay, this is getting weird.

So, Teseo was extremely important to Zephyr development because he expanded trade to a few islands (three) and the other two continents. He also left everything to his younger son, Ah-nee, which is why Ah-nee's even wandering around in Epic. Splurging before he has to be responcible and stuff. Shadi was important because he was the one actually out there making the trades happen. Teseo can't travel very far from Zephyr, so he employed Shadi to do it. That of course made the nobles extremely angry and caused some tensions in Teseo's rule. They didn't like Shadi. Shadi was a wanderer and a dreamer. They thought he was going to be Zephyr's first traitor, which is how he's remembered by them even though it wasn't true. Kind of a really raw deal. He died protecting a trade.

In Mirror Image I have no problems with taking the person right up to their death. Epic has a certain innocence about it that I really like so I don't write deaths in backstories. It was helpful having two main characters for this one. Teseo receives the letter saying his brother and sister-in-law died instead of me having to write it out. Since Shadi had a significent death, I had someone say what happened so that I again didn't have to write the actual death. Coward's way, but I don't care. It's backstory. I'm ending it with Teseo bringing Ai back to Zephyr so that I don't have to write his death either. All of us knows how it happens and I don't want to write him laying on the grown all broken. He falls off his balcony. The backstory isn't so much about them being dead, it's about them doing their part in Zephyr as brothers who share the same beliefs but go about it differently. Corny. The end is more about brotherhood, cousinhood, and nephewhood. You see a good bit of a much younger Emre. I enjoy Emre so very much. I think he's more important then Anastasius in this.

.:The Unsaid Works' EPIC:.

SGAH
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