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

Mist Wayshon, the Inventor

Mist is a human, with dark red hair, short, about only shoulder length, and often curled or in a braid. She has dark green eyes and is short. Mist is a descendant of a Sessak named Venture Wayshon. Being a descendant of a Sessak she was born with the possibility of being blessed with a Sessak gift. What no one realize is she doesn't only have one, but two of these gifts. One is the ability to read people's emotions, the other is to break other abilities.  

In a scene I wrote last year Lynn (who I'll talk more about later) said this to explain what happened with Mist, and what a breaker is: 

“Descendants of Sessak have the ability of being born with one Sessak ability, like reading minds or emotions. However, only one in a thousand have two abilities, and if they have two they tend to have more than just that. Mist is both an emotion reader and a breaker. A breaker is the rarest of all Sessak gifts. It makes it so that Mist can break through any barrier placed before her, especially Sessak barriers. Like the block which makes it so that no mind or emotion reader can read a Sessak unless they let you or they are a Sessak as well. Breakers can also temporarily make a Sessak ability useless.

“Mist has two abilities, which means she’s practically a Sessak without the immortality or the hair and skin.."

The second story focuses on Mist, though she shows up in the third book as well, I might take that out. Sessak who are rulers of the Western World, where Mist is from, look down on women, often discrediting them and even at times have been known to say they can't think. 

Mist manages to overthrow the Sessak Council, but at a cost... which I can't tell you all because of spoilers. MWHAHAHAHAHAHA.... yeah.

Anyways, as the title suggests, Mist is an inventor, her inventions eventually lead to airplanes, common use of electricity and all the big inventions in out world. Instead of being made by many small inventors, they're all created by this woman, one big sweep.
Though she was involved very deeply in the down fall of the Sessak Council she never wanted to be a revolutionary, but was forced into it when the Council decided because of her wanting to become an inventor that she was too much of a threat to keep alive.
She's rather important, that's why I'm spending a whole post on her, but I really don't have much more to say on her, and probably won't until I start working on book two again, which probably won't be until next January at the earliest.

-Dancy M. Grant © 2010

Dragon Tamers

Let me go over this for you. Book one: Elves, Book two: Sessak, Book three: Dragon Tamers, Book Four: Assassination and Elves, Book Five: a spastic combination of the other four, excluding assassination and such, where everything happens and I finally reach the climax of the series (these things usually happen in the last book after all, don't they... I wonder why...)

Anyways. I've gone over Elves (sort'a) and I've gone over Sessak (more like over killed Sessak) So, hence, of course I'll now go over Dragon Tamers before posting more information about specific characters... why does it smell like oranges... this is bad... I'm fasting people!

Back to what I'm supposed to be talking about. Dragon Tamers, in a nut shell, are half Fallen, half what ever species their parents are. Dragon Tamers are also considered as the "Chosen of the Fallen." They come from every back-ground, every species and tend to have a reputation for being really cool. However, being the "Chosen of the Fallen" means they also happen to be the preachers of the True Religion. No exceptions.

Because everyone is a follower of the True Religion this often posses a problem for royalty. In fact... a normal Dragon Tamer in training is considered to be the equivalent of a king or president or emperor, or what ever high, big and important titles you can think of. Dragon Tamers have authority over ev-er-y-th-ing.

Dragon Tamers have the ability to shape-shift into one creature, a dragon. So... why have dragon tamers and dragons, if dragon tamers can just become dragons if they want to? Well, another True Religion belief is that dragons are the guardians over the mortal species which are the Fallen's descendants, that is, until the Fallen return at the end of the world. But, on top of that dragons are seers, and can prophesy the future, a gift given to them from the Fallen so they could warn the mortals of the end of all five worlds. That's why, Dragon Tamers don't have the gift of prophecy. In fact, there's only one mortal that's ever given the gift of prophecy in the entire series, and he doesn't realize it until the last book... ironic, isn't it.

Another thing about Dragon Tamers, they are discovered by the Dragons, who use their gift of prophecy to find all Dragon Tamers before their fourteenth birthday, which is when they're told by a member of the Dragon Council what they really are.

Well, what's the point of Dragon Tamers? Basically they're mediators between other mortal species and the dragons.

Because Dragon Tamers are so important and powerful they have their own titles. You have Horemlo for male Tamers, and Heramla for female Tamers. There's also another, Hetvio, only used for the president of the Dragon Council.

Fun Facts: Dragon Tamers can breath fire... granted, they keep this as secret as possible, but it's slipped out some times, and gave rise to the fire eaters. Female dragon tamers are betrothed to another Dragon Tamer the second day they arrive at a Dragon Sanctuary, sort of tradition, because males out number females practically ten to one in the Dragon Council.

Oh, also youth in this world turn of age on their seventeenth birthday. And another fun fact for the series in general, the sun and moons all rise in the west and set in the east.

I guess I should explain what a Dragon Sanctuary is. There are Five of them. I've only named three though, you have the Obsidian Sanctuary in the Eastern World, The Daragon Sanctuary in the Southern World and Aliatian Valdose.

Dragon Tamers are the only mortals which can speak Dragonese (language of the dragons) and I think that's all I really need to say at the moment. Hooray...

-Dancy M. Grant ©2010

Sessak, Fallen and Others

As I've been working on trying to explain and describe each character which is on the poll I have quickly discovered that there are a couple of things I need to clear up first.

The first that comes to mind are Sessak. Strange word, one of those I'm never sure if I'm spelling right, but they're very important, espesually in books one and two. 

But... before I get talking about them, we must explain something else first. Elves... which I've pretty much explained there are plenty of in the Five Worlds. However, Elves are just the second largest group of mortals in these books. You have Humans, which nearly double the size of the elven population without even trying. You have Elementals, which can manipulate the forces of nature, though there are said to only be about two thousand of them throughout all five worlds. Then you have Shape-shifters, which there are only around five hundred alive at one time. Elementals and Shape-shifters look just like average humans... that is until they use their abilities. You also have the Dragon Tamers, which are born in any of the other species, but when they reach the age of fourteen they are finally told by the Dragon Council what they really are... confusing, I know, I'll talk about them later today probably.

Those are you're important species which are natural occurrences in these books. However, they're not the only ones. You have the half elves, which are children of a human and elf (shouldn't be a new concept) you have light elves, dark elves, and many others (I only really focus on the elves) but then you have the Sessak...

Sessak were once elves, doesn't matter what kind, light, dark, shadow, half... they were once elves....

Another side track, Fallen. One thing I enjoy so much about Brandon Sanderson's writing is he creates not just stories, but entirely new cltures and and governments... and religions. Now, I'm Mormon, just re-emphasizing that fact, and the religion I've made for this world I do not believe in at all... just saying.

In the Five Worlds there is one dominate religion... in fact there are only different religions in the Western World, every one else is just solid in this big macho religion, which is commonly referred to as the True Religion. The true religion teaches that before there was time there was the Fallen, and every mortal species is a decedent of the Fallen. I haven't written the legend on this yet, but it basically goes like this: The five worlds were one continent, no division, blah, blah, blah. One night the animals which lived on this jumbo Pangaea looked up to the empty sky and say "there's no light... why is there no light in the sky at night when during the day we have a sun that it makes it so we can see?" because, of course, animals could talk before time began.

Right when they had this realization a bright light flashed across the sky and landed in the exact center of this big, gigantic continent. Rising from the flames comes a man, clothed in white light. hair like snow, all that fantastic stuff, then he looked across the land around him, raised his arm and says a single world "part". That was when the five worlds became... five separate worlds... you know... whole tectonic plate shift theory just super, super, super, super, Super, SUPER fast. (enough supers for you? I hope I spelled that right...).

Then, he lifted his arm to the sky and said "Fall" More light, more shooting stars that are just really big and bright, and the entire world was suddenly populated by the "Fallen" which had been sent by Divinity to populate the world with their own descendants before leaving....

Yeah, waked out and stuff, but I'm getting back to the Sessak.

Fallen looked like humans, but were immortal... like really immortal, my best comparison to the Fallen is resurrected angles, shinny light and all singing "hallelujah"... but not really. The first generation the Fallen made were the light elves, then the dark elves, then the humans, which have all the physical characteristics and traits of the Fallen except two... one, they had very short life spans, especially compared to the immortal Fallen. Two, they are missing one bone... yes, a bone... it's about the size of a dime, complete spherical in shape residing in the inside part of ones wrist. One little bone... why does this matter? because it is what makes the Fallen immortal, gives the elves and dragon tamers the ability to live forever... and when removed from an elf, turns that elf into a Sessak. End all, be all, no ands, buts, or ifs.

So, turn that arm of yours, either one, over so that fish belly of yours is facing up. Look at your wrist, see those veins underneath your skin? You should, if you don't I'm concerned. Under that spiderweb of blood pumping tubes is where this bone resides... if you were a Fallen, Elf or Dragon Tamer that is...

Now, why would any elf be crazy enough to  remove one of their bones which grants them the chance to live forever and a whole lot of other good stuff? Because, they retain their extended life, though can only live about a thousand years after removing the bone, and they get super cool and powerful abilities. Examples: reading minds and or emotions, teleportation, speed, super strength, manipulating gravity and a whole lot of other things. Just think, all super powers that don't have to do with an element like water, fire, ice or such....

Reciprocation? Well, of course the pain of having to remove a bone from your wrist without any anesthetic or pain killer, you can't even be drunk like people did forever ago so they wouldn't feel pain.You have to be completely alert and, as Lynn says in what I have written from the Wrath of the Sessak so far is:

"It’s one of the most painful things I’ve ever had to witness, and I’ve only had to witness it once. I still have nightmares about it, I can’t imagine what it’s like for them."

 Not only is the pain a reciprocation but there are others as well. No mater what you look like before you  have the bone removed, after, and what classifies a Sessak so well, you have jet black hair, which doesn't look natural. Your skin turns so white that if you held a piece of paper against it the skin would be whiter than the paper (not a bright white, sort of like a dead white anyone thinking of stupid romance novels... well, they don't sparkle in sunlight). They also have the tendency of wearing only black... 

Like Aurora, Sessak are creatures which have been carried over from a story which has died. There weren't elves in that story, so they've been altered quite a bit, the main difference is the fact that they're people, not creatures any more. They're not savages that do the bidding of some really dark overlord, rather, they're savages that do their own evil bidding... anyways, they're really bad.

Remember how I mentioned that the Western World is the only place that has different religions? Well, the Sessak are why. Several centuries before the first book takes place a group of elves became Sessak, went to the Western World and over through the government there. There are religions that believe Sessak are those who are so devoted to Divinity that they'd sacrifice themselves in such a way just to serve. There's another religion that believes that each Sessak is the embodiment of a piece of the devil himself... funny story behind that but I won't go into that on this blog though.

Okay, back to the little bone... what's it called? well, it really depends on what species you are. For Elves/Sessak it's known as a Kessak Stone. (really important in book two... just saying). for Dragon Tamers they're called Daragon Stones. for Fallen... I don't know, I haven't named them yet... haven't needed to.... I should probably do that though.

Also, they're colored different in each species. For Elves/Sessak they're a really shinny black, like little spheres of obsidian. For Dragon Tamers they're pure white versions of the Kessak Stones. Once again I have no details of the Fallen, but I'm guessing they're just like the Daragon Stones, maybe a little different, like they glow or something silly like that.

Well, that's all I feel like I really need to mention about Sessak or Fallen at the moment. I'll talk about Dragon Tamers in another post, and I'll revisit Sessak multipul times on this blog. Thank you for reading this long and rambling post.

-Dancy M. Grant ©2010

Aurora Seeker, Heir of Audriel

Probably one of those posts where I just have a bazillion tangents... sorry.

Aurora is a character I originally created for another story entirly. She was just a single character among many in a story which was far too crowded. She was my favorite of those and when I scraped that story I couldn't make myself throw here into the bin with everything else. So, she got transfered stories...

Light elf of the purest bread, she would be queen if there weren't such strict rules on who can inherit the crown. She's considered to be the shy beauty, golden blond hair, shinning blue eyes and gourgiously toned skin. She's very strong in music, being able to play the piano, harp, flute and sing. 

Though born in the Eastern World she was raised from here twenty-third birthday to here eighty-second year in the Central World. Upon return to here home land she becomes Ralen's closest confident and the two fall in love and on Ralen's little becoming king day, they get married, as is tradition.

Now, if you've read the last post on the story of Audriel and Aberis you might feel confused. Ralen, being cursed to only father male children, and Aurora, cursed to only bear female children... well, naturally they cancel each other out, end up having 21 kids in their very long elven lives, 14 which are female and 7 male.

Aurora, shows up several times through the series, but only really has any importance in the first and last books.

Though she's the oldest character that I've created in the series I feel like I've poorly formed her character, and really could add more detail. [oldest as in she's existed in my mind for the longest]. That tends to be a flaw of mine. I create great and complexed characters, but the further back you go the more shallow and schetchy my characters get. 

I have a feeling that Aurora is very wise though, beyond her years, even as an elf. Beauty and wisdom... that's what she is my dear reader... I should draw her some time...

-Dancy M. Grant ©2010

the Story of Arberis Moonslayer and Audriel Sertrey

 Yay, I don't have to write much for this one, I wrote it all earlier. Anyways, as promised this is the story of Aberis and his curse which he was given by the great dragon, Kelsin. I wrote this last night for the first draft of the Elven Wars. Ralen, Aveir's older brother, has just meet Aurora Seeker, direct descendant of Audriel Sertrey.

    "King Audriel Sertrey had been the last true king of the Eastern World. When he and his closest friend Aberis Moonslayer had the fool hearty idea of going to the great dragon Kelsin to conqueror him and claim his foretold fortune for their own greed. In the attempt Kelsin managed to capture the king and his friend and cursed them. Audriel would forever have only female descendants, making it so he would have to relinquish his throne to another, for it was custom in the Eastern World for the throne to only be passed down from father to son. Aberis, on the other hand was cursed to have only male descendants, but the soul ransom the dragon asked for was that Audriel would hand the throne over to Aberis, and Aberis’s soul fear was leadership and power.

    Desperate, the two elves finally agreed, vowing to never disturb the great dragon and before they even were able to leave Kelsin’s domain Audriel handed the crown over to his friend. Once they’d been released though, Aberis and Audriel made a pact that if Kelsin’s curse proved false the throne would be returned to Audriel’s descendants, Aberis and his line merely filling in while Audriel’s line could not take the throne.

    So far, three thousand years later, Kelsin’s curse held true, Audriel’s pedigree pure female, and Aberis’s pure male, thousands of years after both of their deaths.

    The story of the two kings was taught, not only to young children as a bedtime story, but in schools as well. Every one knew the pact, and every time some one of either line married, every one would anticipating wait for the first child to be born, to see if the curse would still hold true. It always did, and Ralen had grown up always believing he’d only have sons, not even bothering to fantasize of a daughter."

It goes on to where he gives Aurora the proper respect that she deserves and blah, blah, blah, blah-blah. But there you go, that's the story of Aberis Moonslayer and how the Moonslayer line became inheritors of the throne of the Eastern World.

-Dancy M. Grant  © 2010

Aveir Moonslayer

Now I'm going to blab your eyes off with refrences and notes of characters. Five stories, but each one acts like it's the first in the series... that is, until you get to book five, where all the other books finally fit together in place, starting to make sense why I jumped from one group of people to another all the time.
There is one constant throughout the entire series, and his name is Aveirendan Moonslayer.
Aveir has an interesting role in each book. In the first book he acts as the antagonist (for those of you who aren't writters and don't know what that is, that means the bad guy). However inocent and kind he may seem in the first section of the book, he is the one who revives the Elven Wars, which his father, King Rirakell, had managed to put to an uneasy end two hundred years before.
In book two he appears as a very insignificant side character, about only three or so really important things happening to him in the whole book.
Book three he is a very important secondary character, who almost runs against the main character at times in importance.
Book four he's the main character, at last, standing as a confused and worried protagonist he must discover who assasinated his closest friend.
Book five, where everything comes together, remember that one? Well, he's the main character once again, standing against a task which is practically impossible to fulfill.

Because of the nature of the story, and the fact that Aveir Moonslayer is an elf, and "pratically" immortal this series actually spans across what I'm guessing right now to be three to four hundred years. It starts out in a time which would be like the 1700's for us, but instead of most wars being fought with rifles and such they keep their swords, spears and bows, even some older, midievil styles of clothing and such. It's clean and advanced, yes, just "old fashoned".
The series skips several hundred years to what would be equivalent to the second World War in our world. Guns more accurate and swords piratically forgotten. This bound takes place between the third and fourth books. Unlike us however, they never create automobiles, which is probably the biggest difference. They have light bulbs and the likes, electricity, natural gas to heat their homes, but they never get cars. They even have airplanes... but they stick to the old horse and carriage game for the whole thing.
Book Five is moddern, so about sixty years later.
But anyways, I've gotten off track. We're talking about Aveir. Well, his physical discription is simple enough. He has really dark hair, which is spekled by strekes of blond. Like some one just starting to really go grey, but not as grey.... you know. His hair is mostly black, and always stays that way. He's rather short, to tell the truth, only 5'2" (that makes him shorter than me... MWHAHAHAHAHA... ahem...)  and he has very dark brown eyes. What's important about his history is he's actually the second shadow elf to ever have been born. Shadow elves are the children of a light elf and a dark elf, light and dark combining to make a shadow, simple as that.
He's second in line for the throne of the Eastern World in book one, but of course, that doesn't help much, does it? I've pretty much revealed all that happens in book one to those who I actually invited to follow this, so I'll just say it. When he is judged by the great dragon Kelsin he is cursed, like his ancestor, Aberis, before him. He his cursed to not be able to father any children unless he becomes king of the Eastern World, which then he would only be able to have one son, who would be able to take the throne after him. (Aberis's curse is different, basically all of his desendants, no matter what, are male... no question about it... I might just post up that story on here... ooo, sneek peek to next blog post.)
For some reason I feel as if there's an invisible line after book three, like I can't tell anyone details of the last two books, but I will say this, Aveir never remarries after his wife, Arabella, dies of a strange sickness between books three and four. She was human anyways, so the jump of several hundred years would have clasified her as dead anyways.
Book two I have a human named Mist marry an elf named Rune, (there's sort of the main characters, but this is a tangent, so I'll make it quick.) and she is what is considered to be a half elf with a dominate human side, which only happens when some one is a desendent of a Sessak. Anyways, Mist it told that she could use a thing called a Kessak Stone to become "immortal", making her elven half dominate and being able to live forever like Rune, but in the attempt to do so she's injured very badly, and it doesn't work. It's finally decided that there's no point and she just dies of old age. My point? Simple, mortals can't change whether they can live forever or not (elves are considered mortals, you're only immortal if there is no way possible for you to die.... elves can die... ya know, just saying).
Oh, I'm getting hungry... sorry, random I know, and this post has a lot of tangents...
Aveir, I've decided, can play piano... which just made him so much more attractive in my mind. Sorry, but you know.  He has a very handsome face and smile, but most consider that completely destroyed when he's mauled by an unknown beast in the first book, leaving his face and the front part of his body etched with scars for the rest of his life... well... that's under debate, I might change that... we'll see when I write book five whether the scars heal completely or not. He's an expert with the sword, but after the end of the first book he can't help but become severely sick every time he's forced to take a life. Like... vomit, sick.
He's some one who, like Aberis (remember that guy?), hates being put into positions of leadership, but must do it simply because he is a prince... sort of comes with the job.
Um... I might explore further on Aveir later, but I think I've got it pretty well covered right now. Hooray!

-Dancy M. Grant © 2010

The Signifigance of Five

Those of you who have read part or all of my first draft of the Loss of the Dragon Sanctuaries know that in this world five is a very significant number. There are five moons, five continents, five books in the series. Why? I don't know, it's just a nice number... I could make something more in depth to it, but I don't really feel like it right now. Hey, I'm just getting started.
Go looking around this page for example, how many colors are there? Don't count the black/grey, brown or different shads of the other colors... There are five. I'm just teasing you now, tantalizing hold the reason I pointed this out to you just over your head and out of reach. MWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Remember:

      "Some people assume that authors write books because we have vivid imaginations and want to share our vision. Other people assume authors write because we are bursting with stories, and therefore must scribble those stories down in moments of creative propondidty. Both groups of people are completely wrong. Aurthors write books for one, and only one reason: because we like to torture people.... The simple truth is authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties."
-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Verses the Evil Librarians, pgs 165-166

I hold true to Mr. Sanderson's words (he is my favorite writer after all...) I'm really a cruel person here to torture those unfortunate souls I encouraged to read this blog and those who happen to stumble upon it and are now stalking me or wishing to steal my beautiful and wonderful story. (remember, stealers are bad. they'd get an EF grade if they were in my class and would spend twenty years in detention.)
Now, I will tell you why the colors are the way they are. Remember the five moons I mentioned earlier? Well, those are the five colors they shine. Brolval-purple, Jentia-blue, Lativan-white, Rydiana-green and Hylviana-golden. (I really need to memorize how those are spelled...) I'm just coordinating, the five moons really are an important part to the series.
Yep, well, I feel like that's all I can really say on the number five, but I might be blogging all day, so don't worry, you'll hear more from me soon.

-Dancy M. Grant © 2010

What to Expect

Hello again,
What are you to expect from this blog? Well, I'll try adding pictures of maps I've drawn out, I'll go into depth of the characters, explain special creatures and councils, and maybe even post little scenes here and there. Don't get your hopes up two high... I feel very concerned about some one coming and stealing all of my stuff... I just have to figure out how to make all my stuff legally mine so I can put a shinny copy right sign on the page and sue anyone who steals my stuff... [over usage of stuff... terribly sorry]
Don't steal people's stuff... that's bad.... very bad. You go to heck for stealing... well, not really, but it's not good, you don't get to the Celestial Kingdom.... nope, na-da....n-o... yeah.
You are reading the crazy ramblings of a young adult Mormon girl... I'm no fool and I intend to use this blog a lot... so... those I've invited here are welcome... random published authors [like Brandon Sanderson... I like him] are welcomed as well... though I doubt they'd ever find this little, tinny blog. Stealers are not welcome... I will probably manage to sue them some how. yep.... it all begins tomorrow.

-Dancy M. Grant ©2010

Getting Started

I'm not new to blogging, but I haven't done it in some time. I'm here to introduce friends, relatives and who ever to my story, a five book series called the Five World Chronicles. My name isn't really Dancy M. Grant, but that's my old pen name I used a couple of years ago. I'm using it now for protection for stupid people who stalk people on line.
Anyways, I might not add much any time soon, plus I have to invite people to following me on this so ya know, that much to say. That's about it for right now,

-Dancy M. Grant © 2010