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| Brianna: tall, slim, fair skinned, fine features, high cheekbones, straight black hair to mid-back, blue eyes. her brother: brown eyes and hair, average skin but tanned. Right-ho, it’s not midnight anymore! well then, I shall proceed to scribble. third possible book: Princess Brianna is Kathryn’s granddaughter. She is called the Silver Star Princess - her symbol, or crest thingy, is a silver star (varies between 6 and 8 points). She has a brother (no name). plot: The remnants of the Thribed come back, and catches the now-combined countries of Lianora and Terratithia off guard. The king and queen (no names) are killed in the first attack, and everything basically goes to pieces. Brianna, and her brother bundle everybody into a bunch of boats, and they abandon Lianora and Terratithia. There is (we can feel it coming...) a big storm, and half the boats aren’t there when it’s over (they didn’t sink...they show up in another story). They wreck (duh) and find themselves in what will be Tithia. They start building (Santhem by the Sea, a half Venetian-type city), and Brianna starts exploring deeper. They find an abandon ruin of what was once a beautiful city, of pearly white stone. In this city, they encounter some kind of creatures, dark and nasty etc., led by a Black Knight (I haven’t come up with a creative, original title for these yet. Similar to the Nazgul in LOTR). Nota bene on the black knights: my villain, an unnamed witch, destroyed aforementioned city, and an unspecified number of the best warriors she made into her undead. They are basically walking corpses, preserved by magic. When killed, the decomposition process takes place in second, and the bones crumble, creating a black dust, meant to destroy the one who killed the Black Knight. It sends them into a sleep, like a coma, and they generally don’t wake (more on this later). Anyway, Brianna battles the knight, but it is ‘called away’ (this whole plot is sketchy), without killing her, but Brianna now has a silver (not gray, silver) streak through her hair, on the right. They begin building a capitol, the palace made of the white stone. When this is partially built, the dark forces come back. While her brother is handling a battle some distance from Caer Tithia (name subject to change), Brianna goes to a small island in a lake near the city. She encounters the Black Knight, nice long battle, the knight gets whacked, and Brianna is unconscious. Her brother finds her, and when she dies they want to make him king. He (disoriented, grief-stricken, in shock etc.) vehemently refuses, and declares that Tithia with never have a king, that in the name of Brianna they will always have a queen. That’s about it for the plot. Nota bene on royalty: there is a High Queen and a Warlord (king). They head the Council, which, in the case of the queen’s death, selects a new one (succession stuff is a no-no in my worlds). Right-ho, then. Shall proceed with scribbling. Nota bene on Tithia’s geography: to the East is the sea, and Lianora. West is a mountain range (possibly inhabited by dwarves and giants, more on that later), and beyond that undetermined (plot convenience: unexplored). South is the Elvin kingdom (am considering cutting this out. The status of magic etc. is undetermined, except for black magic), and further south is an India-type country, named (I think) Lukaz-Kariz. North is the Dragon Mounts, and beyond them the Bleak Lands (another case of haven‘t come up with a more creative name yet). Nota bene on the plot: As I’ve said before, magical/non-human creatures are hanging in the balance. With or without, I haven’t made up my mind. If they are there, they will not be major characters, and will come into the story very little. The existence of dragons comes into this plot, so basically I have a character here I would like to use. Rowanne, fair skin, black wavy hair past shoulders, green eyes, light freckles. My plot idea is extremely...well, unformed. Plot: Rowanne and her parents live near the Dragon Mounts, almost in the foot hills. The ice giants, who live in the Dragon Mounts (the dragons themselves are below ground, deep in the bowels of the ancient mountains, etc.) and battle the dragons for control of them, started attacking the small settlements in which Rowanne’s family and others like them lived. In one such attack, both her parents were killed, and Rowanne herself narrowly escaped by the intervention of a dragon named Talia. Nota bene on dragons: I played with the idea that dragons scales change color with their mood until they reach puberty, at which point they settle into a color that suits their disposition. However, the edges of their scales still change color with their mood. A rough idea: Red, fierce, short-tempered, warlike. Blue: dreamy, bookish, musical, etc. Green: excitable, impulsive, and extremely fond of chance. Brown: (dragons often turn this color in old age) calm, quiet, deep thinkers, wise, etc. Black, all the way evil, but fortunatly rare. Dragons are usually born a red-tinged green, but immediately begin shifting colors after they hatch. (I told you I got hung up on technicalities). Back to Rowanne: overruling the objections of the other dragons, Talia keeps Rowanne (who, BTW is about 14) and raises her. Nota bene on dragon habitat: I have said they live in the depths of the mountains. They have great caverns, halls, and workshops. Dragons work with metals, most especially Red-Gold, and a silvery, platinum-like metal with a pearl sheen, which I have yet to name. Depending on it’s forging, it can be used for almost any purpose (more on this later). Rowanne is eventually accepted by the majority of the Dragons because they like for her to sing for them. A few, however, object, and when the ice giants attack Caer Tithia itself she begs Talia to let her go and fight (she is, naturally, older now, though not exactly adult. 17-19, I think). Talia agrees (broken-hearted, naturally), and gifts her with a bow of the aforementioned metal. The plot from here is sketchy and undeveloped: the general idea which I have in my head is (naturally) quite predictable because I haven’t put much effort into it. But the general idea is the she saves the day and brings about alliance with the dragons, etc. I haven’t thought of original twists at all. This next plot is another case of I-made-up-this-great-character-I-want-to-use. Her name is Autumn, she is freckled, snub-nosed, handy with a knife, and her hair is red/gold, with purer gold streaks in it. She is a wandering minstrel, and I haven’t the foggiest idea what kind of adventures she has. I have played with the possibility of using her as a link for a bunch of Tithia-related short stories, etc. Nota bene more geography: south-west of Tithia, across the ocean, is Rohher. It was founded by survivors from Lianora, the ones who DIDN’T get to Tithia, who were separated from the other ships in the storm...Rohher’s crest is a black stallion rampant on blue, and runs on the feudal system, knights etc. |
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