Ugh!

Why do I try keeping people posted on here, I keep changing things faster than I can think. I've decided to just have ten books instead of ten parts, also, I have Aveir remarry twice... then his son ends up being destined to destroy the world... yeah, I give up trying to keep things straight.
I keep struggling to write right now, I'm thinking I should do a self imposed NaNoWriMo for the first draft, but I can't make myself do it. Sigh... oh woe is me.

- Dancy M. Grant © 2011

Rune Iruil

I love Rune... just saying.
I also love Aveir, and Ryke. Sinner's all right, Ralen... nice, but no... anyways, yes, I love Rune...
If you may notice Rune has the same name as Sinner... last name that is. Rune and Sinner are brothers, often mistaken for twins, when Sinner isn't a Sessak, and most of the time closer than twins ever could be. They aren't twins though, Rune's older by... by... well, I honestly don't know. Let's chose a random number between one and five... let's go with... four, four years older than Sinner.
I moved back the date of the poll because I still haven't done half of the names. I'll probably do it again.
Rune, I have to say, is the one who is the most constant character in the entire series. Even the newer part of the  series, he's one of the only ones who is in every single part. In the Elven Wars he's first introduced as a close family friend. Sinner isn't though, because by then Sinner had been sent to the Western World to infiltrate the Sessak Council.
Rune is a diplomat, a general, a medic, and I'm sure many other things. His part in the Elven Wars is he takes up as Ralen's second, leading armies in the fighting and such. In the Wrath of the Sessak he, I guess you could say the second main character. I haven't quite figured that out yet, but he's pretty important.
The main importance of him in part two is he is what people call "the White Sessak", which means he posses all of the Sessak abilities without ever having his Kessak Stone removed. He's still an elf, but he has the abilities which most people use to define Sessak.
Part three he briefly shows up, I might add to his part, but I'm not sure if I will. Part four he accompanies Aveir for the most part. Same with part five. He's a pretty important character, he's there most of the time. In part six I've decided he looks after things back in the Eastern World while Aveir's gone. The only parts he really doesn't have any importance in are three, six and probably most of ten.
I guess I shouldn't say this, but by the time part ten rolls around there are barely, if any, of the original characters. They'll probably all turn up near the end of the book, but by that time they're dead or no longer involved with the story that the series won't even seem like the same anymore. I only say that they're dead so openly because half of the characters are humans and the series covers at least three hundred years, it's sort of to be expected.
Yeah, I've sort of gotten off track, but that's basically Rune Iruil. Man... I didn't really do that very well, did I? Yeah, I'll just move on now. I shouldn't even been on the computer right now.

-Dancy M. Grant © 2011

I Have Not Forgotten!

I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been very busy.
Main news: I've decided to condense the series to make way for new ideas I keep getting. From now on... unless I change my mind again... example: book one will be two parts long, part one the Elven Wars, part two the Wrath of the Sessak.
Basically the parts of books take the title and story line of the original books, and mushes two of them together. This keeps me within my five book count, giving me room to expand, and makes it so I can keep the original stories intact. As well as it will easily increase page count, which is very much needed now.
Half way through what is now book three. That's as far as I've officially planed. I'm making new ideas and am enjoining doing so. I expect the five new "parts" will turn out pretty well, as well as fix my issue with part's one and two not having enough concrete story line behind it.


I haven't recently worked on the series because of school and a short story contest, which I'm running out of time unexpectedly fast on. It's a little story about vampires, zombies and DaLoreans... nothing big. I don't know if I'll finish it in time. From what I accomplished for NaNoWriMo I could, but I don't know if I'd be able to with homework or have enough will power. The story is pure fluff and I don't really have a desire to work on it much more.

Meanwhile, over the break, my dear friend who knows more about the series now than anyone else, gave me a little gift. To the left is a drawing of Aveir Moonslayer, which she entitled, He Has Picked a Flower for His Lovvvve. Sort of. Basically, I asked her to use her new drawing tablet to draw how she envisioned Aveir, and we decided to do it where he was picking a flower for Arabella, who I believe I've said he's married to. I don't remember. It's not in the series at all, so yeah. It's also not exactly how I envisioned him, but the point was to figure out how she thought he looked.
He has more scars on his face, and his hair has a distinct difference between the dark brown and blond. This picture is beyond wonderful, and I won't criticize it further.
Plus I've been think about. I might write music for the series. Mostly piano and/or vocal, but it'd be cool to have a soundtrack to go along with the book. It'd probably only be available online, but still...
I have to create a more extensive map of the Five Worlds... and other things.
I believe one of these days I might just spill the entire series out, just say what happens and forget my secrets... I might do it, but I don't know if I'd be willing to let that all out quite yet.

-Dancy M. Grant © 2011

Still a work in progress

Well, I know I haven't posted for a couple of days but I'm here now. I've kept busy on the Five World Chronicals, and am once again reminded how dyslexic I am. This has been the title of the series for some time now and I just barely realized I've been spelling Chronicles wrong... boy am I stoopid... 

But, forgetting that, Yes, I'm still working on this series, things keep changing every day as a discover my characters further and the world in which they live. Books one and four have always been a bit sketchy for me, I guess five is too, but that's so far away. Luckily I figured out the main conflict in book four today though. Near the beginning of book one there's a sorceress/assassin who attempts to kill Ralen, unsuccessful she instead corrupts Aveir against his brother. That's how the war starts, yada, yada, yada, but at the end of the book Ralen and Aveir believe they kill this sorceress, but they're wrong. She disappears for nearly 200 years then returns in book four...

But... unfortunately for all those reading this, I am an author, and I feel as if revealing what she does in book four would be very... unwise. So, thanks to my ability to be incredibly cruel, I will say nothing more on the matter than beware of Ryrina....

Yes, I like to think myself as mysterious and such...

I should really be quiet now...

yeah, I think I've said enough.

-Dancy M. Grant  © 2010

Arabella, the Revelotionary

Book two is the first time I ever introduce Arabella, human, beautiful, Burnett, human, yeah. I've never come up with a maiden name for her, but she does get married to Aveir, so she at least has one last name so far.

Arabella was born in the Central World, but before her fifth birthday her family moved to the Western World, where they only fell into poverty. Her father dies in a work related accident and her mother dies of an illness in the dead of winter. Arabella, a bright young woman, is left all on her own, her older brother still living in the Central World, her younger sister having been taken to an orphanage because she was too young to take care of herself. Arabella, alone at only 14, begins a life on the street, too old to be taken care of by the state, too poor to travel away or send a letter to her brother, requesting him take her in.

She avoids most dangers, keeps pretty clean, just sticking to begging or meager jobs. After about a year though she gets caught into thieving, just so she can survive. After she gains a large enough amount of money she travels to Ashton in hopes for a better life. Instead she's put right back into the streets, and returns to theft.

She comes into book two at age 23 by trying to steal some money from Aveir when he's running away from the Sessak. He ends up dragging her along with him, trying to protect her, and she just gets stuck with the main group in book two. Thief, yes, traitor, no. She becomes deeply involved with the revolutionaries and ends up being they're greatest key to get people to joining their side. She strives to regain what little trust she can and unexpectedly marries Aveir near the end of the book. Like, really. Everyone is shocked when they find out the day after the wedding.

At first glance the two don't really seem liked they'd fit well together, but in actuality they do. Aveir is very fond of her, but not over protective and willingly gives her lots of space. I guess the greatest comparison I can give is you know a little old lady and old man, wrinkled, bent over, gray... how they just adore each other, and it's just so cute. That's what their relationship is like... minus the wrinkled, old, bent over and gray parts.

Because of Aveir's curse they never have children before she dies, which happens in between books three and four. Aveir feels pretty guilty about that because he never told her about the curse. Because of that Ralen and Aurora's children sort of treat Aveir and Arabella like a second set of parents, often looking to them for guidance and support.

I'm thinking she died of some unexpected illness, but I know she dies pretty young, in her thirties or something like that. The guilt of what he did during the Elven Wars, which Aveir forgot during the decade or so he was married, returns quickly after her death and he loses much of his spirit again.

In the Five Worlds it's a devastating sin to remarry, which is why no one suggested it to him or he even dared to consider the possibility. Book five sees a change, the True Religion loses power once the Dragon Council is over-thrown in book three, and by the time book five comes around it's socially acceptable to remarry, but Aveir never does, because he still does believe in the True Religion, and he doesn't want to disrespect Arabella's memory.

Anyways, I got off track. Because of some events in book two she sort of becomes emotionally unstable, which is mentioned several times in book three. She's a side character in book three, shows up probably... less than twenty times, probably more than ten. I don't know, something like that.

Well, that's Arabella in a box.

 -Dancy M. Grant © 2010

Change of Plans

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been as busy as can be at school this week. Project due in history and Choir Concert, plus I have another community choir performance later tonight and I have a Piano Recital next Saturday.. I've barely had time to breath.

So, what's the change of plan? Well, once I finished my first draft of the Loss of the Dragon Sanctuaries I told myself I'd write the series in order from then on, writing the first draft of the first book, then the second, then the fourth, then the fifth, and then second draft in order of books... I can't.

I've tried several times and I just can't get the right feel for book one right now. it's all mush, I'm not getting points across very well and it's just turning out to be an all around unbearable thing to write. (my apologies Platypus for not  believing you really couldn't write Indemnis last month for NaNoWriMo, I see where you're coming from now.)

The problem is that the Elven Wars just doesn't have enough foundation, I can't write things the way they're meant to be. I have a King die in the first part  but I'm doing it too quickly. The action is in the very first and that's a bad thing. I'm not even sure what the climax of the story is, so how am I supposed to build up to it. I know what I want to have happen, I'll even tell you all:

I need King Rirakell (Aveir and Ralen's father) to become deathly ill and just die unexpectedly. Rirakell loathed his two sons, Aveir more than Ralen, and once he's dead they both hope that once Ralen becomes king there will finally be peace in their family. Problem, Ralen can't become king until he get's married (sort of an issue this world has, have to be married to become any wide spread accepted leader. it's in the third book too)

Ralen doesn't know who to marry at all, and while hesitating to seriously consider a bride there's an assassination attempt on him. Unsuccessful the assassin disappears quickly once discovered, but before leaving she goes and finds Aveir, convinces him that once Ralen becomes king he'd only act like Rirakell did to him, so Aveir agrees to help the dark elves start up a full revelation against his brother, hoping to take the throne for himself when it's all done.

Bla, bla, bla... I really need to come up with more stuff between these two parts... bla, bla, bla.

Then war breaks out between Aveir and Ralen. Ralen at the very beginning wants to have a duel just with Aveir, who ever wins gets the throne, but Aveir refuses, knowing he'd lose and knowing he shouldn't risk it so early on in the war. 

bla, bla, bla... Aveir, in an attempt to spy on the Light Elves' war camp, ends up being attacked by a savage beast, (how he get's the scars on his face) and is believed to have died with the rest of his men. Well, he didn't! and after making his way back to his own war camp spends several weeks in a painful recovery.

After that time passes Ralen asks for a temporary truce between the two armies, requesting to negotiate with the general who took over after Aveir's mauling. Ralen finds out that is brother is still alive at the meeting and is completely shocked. 

The two brothers, in a private meeting agree that the war needs to end (Aveir having had a life changing event and all) but Ralen breaks the news that the Dragon Council demanded that the end of the war has to come  from a judgment done by Kelsin (remember that guy? Look up the story about Aberis and Audriel if you don't) and so they both agree to sneak away from their camps without anyone knowing where they're headed off to.

They make an oath to bring no weapons, but Aveir still brings a single dagger for defense (good thing in the end.) while traveling to Kelsin they run into the beast which attacked Aveir and Aveir manages to slay it with the small dagger he brought. Taking the weapon, Ralen hesitates to trust Aveir for a while, but eventually realizes that Aveir meant no evil and gives the dagger back.

They get to Kelsin, Ralen is made king but that's when Aveir firsts hears of the "Elven Hero" or the "Fallen Hero" and is told by Kelsin that he's destined to become the Hero at the end of the world... 

The war ends, everyone is happy, Ralen marries Aurora and the end.

I'm missing a lot of detail, and a climax... really bad. I might add something with the assassin, who this whole time is trying to keep Aveir corrupted, and where she tries to stop the treaty from being signed but fails and probably dies or is put into a prison for the rest of her life... probably dies... I'm not sure. If she dies it will be on accident, instead of an execution.

But yes, I don't have enough to really work with, and I keep doing things too fast so I think it best if I give it some room for a while.

Instead I'm going to work on book two. I have a bit of a rough draft, but the series has changed so much in the year that's past I'm going to rewrite that section, changing it to conform with how the series is right now.

-deep breath - okay, that feels better now. I really do need to improve book one, and I'll try thinking of something. Any crazy and random and normal suggestions are welcomed and I'll make sure you get the credit you deserve it I end up using any of them, and the book gets published.

-Dancy M. Grant © 2010

Sinner Iriul

Okay, see those polls on each side of this page... I'm not sure if I've pointed them out before, but yes, there are ten names of who your favorite character is... well, I don't intend to just leave you hanging like that in the dark without any back ground before you vote. I've talked about two girls, Aurora and Mist, and one guy, Aveir. I think I'll talk about another guy now. 

Sinner Iriul (pronounced Sy-ner [long "i" instead of a short "i" like we usually use. Hey, I can change things, this is a different world, they have different rules to their language] I-rye-oul) is an important character in the second and fourth books. He will be a side character in book five, and might be mentioned in book one (not certain on that yet).

Sinner... Sinner... well, he's a very wise man who ends up saving several hundred lives, is once again a key factor in the downfall of the Sessak Council... and is a Sessak himself.

Well, like I said in my post about Sessak, they're evil... very evil. And they're tyrants. King Rirakell (Aveir's father) of the Eastern World is king when this Sessak Council is formed and takes control of the Western World. Rirakell can't help but feel responsible for what has happened, so immediately he begins to infiltrate the Sessak Council with elves which are loyal to him. Sinner, though not loyal to Rirakell, has nothing in the Eastern World, other than some family who he feels like doesn't even love him... (one of those down on himself times) so he agrees to give himself to this infiltrating of the Sessak Council. This happened before book one, so the reader may never know unless I decided to have a flashback scene about the event.

Sinner is in the council for over 130 years before he and the other infiltrators manage to rip the Sessak Council suddenly apart. Sinner, now having revealed himself quickly leaves Ashton (the Western World's capitol) as quickly as he can, taking his wife, Lynn and Mist and her uncle Comet with him, saving all of their lives by getting them out of the city which is now suffering from sudden anarchy.

Because it's spoileristic I will say it, but don't say I didn't warn you. SPOILER!!! at the end of book two Mist happens to discover a way to revers the whole Sessak thing and Sinner is returned to his elven form rather quickly. Every one lives happily ever after... that is until several people are killed, one assassinated and the Forgotten Prophecy is fulfilled... yeah.

Non spoilers now! Sinner is the truest friend anyone could ever have. He's brilliant and often stands up for what he believes, even when that means he's risking his life to do so. He is often a councilor of those around him, some one everyone trusts. Um... I would say something but it's a pretty big spoiler... oh well, Sinner and Rune are brothers, Rune the older of the two, and though close in their youth, before Sinner left to infiltrate the Council they have a very... unhappy argument/fight and before Sinner left the two of them would avoid each other. Just so happens that 130 later they're still uncomfortable around each other, but they're not at one another's throats.

Oh, fun fact that you guys might want to know, Sinner has the Sessak abilities of speed, mind reading and can hear things from really far away... most Sessak only have three abilities, and mind reading being one of the more common ones.  

That's pretty much it, other than he has blue-green eyes. Eye color is one of the few things that never changes when an elf becomes a Sessak. Just thought you'd like to know.

-Dancy M. Grant © 2010