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Laws and such about magic is one of my favorite things but with all of these go ham! 👀👀
yay, thank you as always for the ask <3333
Fair warning, this could be a long one ;)
(Helinda's) Outside knowledge and perceptions of Morilaste
Despite the fact that Helinda and the Court of Morilast are two independent entities³ since about three thousand years previous, the two of them have a fierce rivalry mired in each other's misconceptions.
What the Helindians think they know about their rivals is a big gulf from what they actually know.
For one, crows are deeply associated with Morilesian imagery, dating all the way back to stories and artwork from the time the Founding Treaty was forged. The crow associations died down in Helinda over the subsequent centuries, only to be revived within the past two hundred and seventy years or so.
Crows are currently seen as bad luck in Helinda, as they congregate on rooftops, exchange potentially cursed gifts and seemingly listen to people's conversations! Especially in Arobyre and major swathes of Astril and coastal areas, the crows have a rivalry with seagulls. (This is complicated by the fact normal crows exist, but Morilesian crows have been proved to exist by way of enchanted tags placed onto crows' legs.)
In addition, there are a few other things that run rampant in Helindian beliefs (especially in the province of Jontille, where Arobyre is located, the superstition is on another level in those areas as the border with Morilaste isn't far from them.)
Certain faerie creatures (sprites, imps, etc) are also suspected accomplices, spread by rumours, fairytales and oral legends
People believe that High Councillors wander Arobyre's streets on occasion, to snatch anyone sitting on a balcony or beside an open window (especially kids).
If someone was too tall, they’d be subject to rumours of being a High Councillor. For this reason, people are reticent to get back tattoos (and this unfairly impacts Seldaikans, for back tattoos of runes and spells are common in their culture, as are wrist and forearm runes). These rumours then spread to those with back tattoos (which were more insidious, as the rumours suggested that they were shapeshifting High Councillors, when shapeshifters are also subject to distrust and stigma).
Some “artists’ renditions” of Morilast’s mark spread amongst the populace, though the accuracy is variable (none are truly accurate, though one historian versed in ancient and modern spell languages got a decent grasp, which is to say that it is still wildly inaccurate)
Imagery of the Court of Morilast is inspired by the aesthetics of Helinda’s aristocracy, so the images depicted in stories vary based on the time period the stories were released in
People would also make caricatures of the High Councillors, making them out to be deeply unnatural. They’re often depicted as false divinity, void of any characteristics or fashion choices that make Helindians who they are. If any animal/natural traits were given, it would usually be imagery of crows, horns, claws, and anything sharp and malignant, rather than antlers, moss, scales, wings and/or other traits that are seen as benevolent. In addition, they’re frequently depicted as shapeshifters. And many stories actually over-exaggerate their height (compared to trees, cliffs, depths of bodies of water, caverns, other facets of nature)⁴
Helindian laws surrounding magic
First things first, here's a mention of some of the most illegal forms of magic:
Necromancy: not only is it regarded as a social taboo (because Helindians believe that burning the dead allows their soul to be set free), but it is also illegal as to discourage burials and ensure that people convicted of death sentences aren't brought back to life
Soul-summoning/other forms of soul magic: against the law for safety reasons, and also for similar moral quandaries as necromancy.
Possession of another individual: for obvious reasons, such an act violates one's personal autonomy, and also carries a massive safety risk in addition to the complication of a person's identity.
Impersonation (by shapeshifting or otherwise): illegal also for reasons of violating personal autonomy and complicating/obscuring a person's identity. ¹
Spells compelling speech or silence: helps to ensure that everyone can speak freely (and though no one can say it, this law is actually a dig against the Court of Morilast, who use spells compelling silence a lot).
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After that, acts of magic are interpreted through their impact in the situation and the intent of the wielder. So using fire magic isn't inherently illegal, for example, but if one is caught using it to set someone's house on fire, that part is what warrants unjustified guilt.
There are also regulations on magical/magic-infused substances and where they can be sold (like phoenix tears can only be sold in apothecaries, due to the potent nature of them and the appeal to sell fake products that are actually crystal fruit juice and water.) And magical substances can't be sold in South Arobyre (at least not in the standard markets).²
The meshaika
[This was made about a year ago, some of these details might be incorrect as of the current draft of A Healing for the Birds]
Of the Majkra Ljkoren, there are four:
Jersk Rhesjan (head of the temple)
Merik Varkaikh (next in line)
Raszood Karaikhenesz
Leskir Sakharen
In addition, they have acolytes:
Baakszour Ersk
Aster Karska
Four others unnamed
Jersk got the idea to seek the Chalice so that the temple could embark on ambitious endeavours in spell research and experimentation without having to worry about health or ethical considerations. His overall goal is social recognition from Helindian society.
Merik seeks to inherit Jersk’s place as the head of the temple (and thus, the Arobyrian representative of the society). He does everything to keep in Jersk’s good graces, and has his own ambitions for how to run the Society.
Baakszour wishes to become a meshai so he can honour his faith in the best way possible. The make line of his family were all meshaika, so fulfilling his goals would also make his family proud.
His core belief is that it’s worth it to sacrifice oneself for the good of the community
Eshani’s kidnapping of him makes him question this as he realises that his cause may not be worthy of his sacrifice (and that he should prioritise himself a bit more)
This core belief makes him come across as a goody-two-shoes, so people often dislike him for that
He has been an acolyte for a long while, where successive promotions that weren’t him start to put a chip in his side (cynical)
Aster seeks promotion for he wants the power associated with the position. He wants to prove that he is in control of his life and its trajectory. His beliefs were influenced by his upbringing, and indeed the assumptions and expectations of those around him
He was brought up in a Kerrasildain household, meaning his family believed in Fate in addition to Sarkata and Galista
Expectations were placed on him to “make good of himself”, indirectly in reference to his teleportation powers
“I don’t want to be a lackey.”
He left for Helinda to defy Fate, only for his religion’s beliefs to fester there too
When the call was made seeking for acolytes to find the Chalice, Aster volunteered straight away, while Baakszour rose to the occasion to avoid random selection. The two of them didn’t really know each other at that stage, but as the quest went on they became amicable.
They went on a wide-roaming quest, which lasted over a year. Morilaste got mentioned a few months in, as a joke on Baakszour’s part. Aster dismissed the idea, only for it to crop up a few times over the course of the journey, making the pair wonder.
And so they set off for Morilaste.
Upon their ascent to the foot of the Circles, they timed it such that their wanderings would happen when the denizens were asleep. They didn’t count on it being evening when they got somewhere decent, nor that an actual High Councillor would walk through those doors (via the side entrance).
For them, the promotion awaited. Fame, recognition, award.
But while Aster got his just reward, Baakszour got caught hostage by a High Councillor, and received rejection from Merik. “Feel free to keep the acolyte, the Chalice is ours.”
This rejection plants the seeds in his mind. All these years of effort, the years of asking, running, and soulsearching? All for what? A rejection from the hierarchy in no uncertain terms.
When Eshani leaves to pursue the Chalice, the other meshaika scramble to ‘reverse’ their words, but he gives them a grave expression and goes upstairs.
The events unfold and he is unsure what to believe. Did Aster also suspect she was a High Councillor? Or did the knowledge of the ladies’ true identities fall on his shoulders?
In any case, he sat on his bed at home that night, contemplating matters. He was still on their roll. How long would it be before they called him back to his duties? Could he quit? Was Merik’s statement a firing or a dismissal?
The quill and notebook taunted him. He didn’t know the lady properly, at all. He reached over the notebook, then paused. What was he thinking? How would colluding with a High Councillor be a good idea? It would rain further scandal on him, rather than the current image of him being the hostage.
Of course, the meshaika would turn to question him on why he lead the lady straight to the Chalice and jeopardised the whole operation. He states his reasons, for he forged a deal to lead her in exchange for healing and freedom. They conclude him guilty and have him banished.
He’ll never get his dream, at least not in Arobyre.
This prompts him to help Alycja, by sticking up for her and answering her questions.
Fun Facts (and Footnotes)
I got an ask about the fun facts here as well! <-
So in addition to that, here's a few more plus the footnotes:
¹: Helinda (especially the provinces of Jontille, Sariole and Yverli) went through a 'witch-trial' phase for a time during the past 150 years. Anyone and everyone that was suspected of being either a shapeshifter and/or from the Court of Morilast was subject to an iron test, in which they were swabbed with iron and observed to see if their appearance changed. If it didn't, they were given a tattoo around the wrist to prove they passed this test. If their appearance did change, they were told to leave, or arrested depending on the context. The current laws regarding the obstruction/complication of one's personal identity arose due to this period.
(And also, Eshani has a few iron scars on her right wrist for exactly this reason. Like all the other scars on her hands [her fingertips are ashen from when her fire magic first erupted and her left hand especially has bite marks from her ilasivine], she doesn't show them to others. Only Cerigo knows of the burns and iron scars, but not the bite marks!)
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²South Arobyre has a rather specific, if unusual situation, in that its population are mostly humans. There is a faerie court (the Court of Tears) nestled in the southern-ish part of the area, but the denizens of that are not allowed venture above ground past the boundaries of their court. This is due to a treaty struck whereby the faeries pledged to let the humans live in South Arobyre without them entering as long as the humans pay refrain taxes to the taxman. As such, some of the regulations are a bit different for them.
(And they are entirely split off from North Arobyre, as there is a curse on the river between the two halves, causing all bridges to collapse and anyone who crosses it from either side risks death, hubris, getting cursed, etc.)
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³The Court of Morilast is only a pseudo-independent entity from Helinda, on account of the fact said court is mentioned in the Founding Treaty with regards to the Allaitri Chalice. They are still party to the agreement made in relation to the Chalice, i.e, if they ever got their hands on the Chalice, they are obliged to share it with Helinda. If they don't, well, it could risk a repeat of the prospect faced by Morilast himself all those years ago (the other provinces wanting his court dissolved).
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⁴see here and here :D
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Lol @chaoticxsnowflake @withered--ivy I'm always late to these... and that's such a lovely photo of Kaeya btw. I need to do a photoshoot in that wonderland sometime
You know what? I'll take it. 🩵🙂↔️
(This art was a recent birthday gift from the fabulous @novarion by the way 🥲 I love it 🥰)
Uhh idk who to tag... @frostedsakurablossom @aalinaaaaaa @jaysc0ve @starlygalaxy and open tag ✨
Can you tell me the most interesting thing about the Morilast's legal system?
Hi wyked, thanks for the ask! <333
That would be their rather bespoke view on murder, and indeed how they host trials (it’s corruption all the way up!). Typically, murder is a crime, punishable by sentence to the Underground (or death), and the same goes for attempted murder.
However, the method of which is used to convict someone has a variation depending on the status of who committed the crime, and that of who was (almost) murdered.
If an ordinary faerie in Naimorste (the lower basin) murdered someone of the same status, they would be whisked away unceremoniously by crows to be questioned by arbiters. The arbiters confer with a lower judge (someone of the upper nobility who presides over minor cases), and if the evidence points to guilt, the accused is destined for the Underground. The accused party may subject an appeal, in which they must prove who did the crime instead of them. Appeals are reviewed by the lower judge, with any and all differing suspects questioned via the same avenue. Such appeals get referred to other lower judges and there it is decided if the appeal was successful or not. If there is discord or doubt, the judges have the option of referring the case to a High Councillor, and this incites a Grand Trial.
Grand Trials are spectacle events in which those accused of particularly grievous crimes get questioned by the hosting High Councillor for anyone and everyone in Morilaste to see. The other six High Councillors, plus their Seconds and the arbiters form the jury, but while Seconds and arbiters might be able to deliberate, only High Councillors (including the host) have the deciding vote on the outcome.
If someone from Naimorste was to murder a noble, someone from Aileste (the upper basin) and/or someone with strong ties to a High Councillor, this leads to the convicted having a High Councillor on their doorstep to summon them for trial! (And the sky might go black with crows 👀). Such situations have the accused questioned by arbiters and the lower judge, before being subject to a Grand Trial.
There is a particular quirk within the system, however. If someone regardless of status was to attempt murder but ultimately fail against a High Councillor, they’ll get arrested (or even killed). If the murder was successful, no conviction occurs.
This is due to the Court of Morilast’s succession laws, which stipulate that there must be seven High Councillors at any one time. Those who manage to murder a High Councillor inherit Morilast’s Mark and thus have protection from conviction of murder. However, carte blanche exists for them in turn to get murdered, and as such there have been strings of murders in the past when High Councillors got succeeded.
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yooo gimme some fun facts from your wip folder please :D
My pleasure, thanks for the ask :D
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Under Helindian law, one can get away with almost literally anything if it is justified properly (very few things are classed as unjustifiable, such as necromancy or rape/sexual assault). It’s because they have a type of ruling that amounts to justified guilt, meaning that the person is acknowledged as having committed the crime but is understood as doing so for the defense of others and/or themselves. Therefore no punishment is given.
The ilasivine¹ in Eshani’s sanctuary used to belong to a noble in Arobyre, until two people freed it and subsequently lost control. It flew over Arobyre’s skies until it got shot down, where it got trapped in a haphazard cage in a local bird sanctuary. The people there desired for it to be sent to Seldaika, but official advice said for it to be put down because it spent most of its life in captivity. One of the crow shifters brought this to Eshani’s attention, and so she appeared as some random stranger with a generous offer in exchange for getting the bird.
For that record, most of the birds in Eshani’s sanctuary are birds she found injured and had nursed back to health. Where possible, she likes species pairs so they can have offspring.
¹ilasivines are Seldaikan birds that are falcon-like and are akin to small dragons (they are usually about 4-6 feet tall.) They glide in the sky until they need to swoop for their targets, and come in two variants; white or black. The white ones wake up during the day, and they are entirely white as to resemble clouds. The black ones are a much rarer variant, in part because they are hunted to be kept as pets or trophies, on account of their mostly black feathers with their undersides being shiny blue, pink and purple, to resemble the night sky. (Eshani's ilasivine is a black one, named Chersa after the person who rescued the bird [it's a rather excitable ball of feathers, it's very playful and enjoys nipping at Eshani's fingers. She has a few scars from it 🤣😭])
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thanks to @wyked-rebellion for the tag! the premise is to post the names of files in your wip's folder and let people send asks about them :D
Seeing as I've recently posted Chapter One of A Healing for the Birds (yay! 🎉), I'm going to list some of the folders I have for said wip! The major spoilers are going to be omitted (feel free to ask in my messages if you're really curious, I'm just not going to mention those spoilers on asks/public posts), but after that, it's details galore! (depending on the file, some are brief lol)
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Manuscript:
-> Chapter One — One Last Dance Before Dawn
The final product
Total first draft
Temple of Verelise (Parts One and Two)
-> Chapter Two — Landfall of the Tempest
Preparations
The Next Stage of Pilgrimage
{Anticipation + The Ritual}
The Chase for the Chalice
A Wish in Exchange
-> Chapter Three — Wash the Wounds Away
*insert names of scrapped/about to be reworked scenes*
Old Wounds Reopened
-> More scenes
The Morning After
The first proper meeting (post-trial)
Notes!
The meshaika
Background events of the temple chaos
The moment the friends vanished
Worldbuilding
Overview of the magic system
The Allaitri Chalice
Potion system
Helindian laws surrounding magic
Principles of judicial punishment (Helinda vs Morilaste)
Morilast's legal system
A shop with magical wares
Outside knowledge and perceptions of Morilaste
Ask game answers
1. government structure of Helinda
3. how rich is the population
Noble houses
Summary of Helinda
A note on the Cheyordeloshe Islands and its politics
Other notes
fun facts
the glossary
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Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else
"You can't ship those characters because they have a problematic height gap" well, strictly speaking we can't ship one of them. The other is well within the size and weight limits of most domestic parcel couriers.
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I'll answer the question first, then do my promo, since I love this question so much :)
One thing I am SO so so proud of is something I started recently. I've finally got something solid to work on for Call of the Void, and that's the pilot script I'm working on for it! (if that link doesn't work for some reason, the tag on my blog is #call of the void pilot!)
For years Call of the Void's been in a perpetual vague planning stage, and it still is honestly! But it's more solid than it's been before, and I want to try and honestly pursue my dream of it being an animated show, and so I'm trying to script write a pilot episode :) As a treat, have a snippet of the end of the first major scene in it <3
Then the most recent part of it I've done :)
okay, NOW we get to the promo! Under the cut, anyway:
GENERAL PROMO
I'm on ArtFight!! Tis my first year this year, so I'm very excited!! I also have an Unvale account!
I also have a poetry series (that I haven't added to recently tbh) called The Trader's Journey, where it's the Trader going through different Worlds, usually inspired by Minecraft screenshots I find!
SOULS OF BLACK PROMO
In a world where no one can die permanently, a cynical traveler, Reaper, meets two outsiders who need a cure for strange magical scars, and agrees to help them. Meanwhile, an ex-cultist, Doc, has notions of the evil his old cult is doing, and aims to stop them as well as save his only friend within it. Both discover new facets of their world that no one has yet to know, ones that shake their understanding of it to its core.
Souls of Black is on AO3!! The chapters up right now are long o_o BUT!! I plan to rewrite them to an extent to adjust small continuity things, and to cut them up and spread them into more chapters!
Souls of Black also has its own dedicated blog: @souls-of-black !! There I post basically anything related to it: art, oneshots, chapter updates, worldbuilding, and more!!!
SoB also has a Pair Ask Game, where characters and their relationships with others are organized for your convenience to choose from!
Souls of Black also has a character ask blog @requests-to-the-abyss
CALL OF THE VOID PROMO
Pessimistic alter of a former child soldier, Ruby Darkshine, works to fight against the recently resurfaced Agents of Chaos, who were presumed defeated for 5 years. By her side is Ryan Gunther, a quippy demiflame who is also hellbent on taking the Agents down. As the unlikely pair delve deeper into schemes of their enemies, both old and new, they’ll discover secrets both about themselves and their world that threaten to push their bonds―between both them and their friends―to their limits.
Call of the Void doesn't have a fullyy coherent form, as it's still being worked on heavily. BUT! I do have oneshot masterposts and LOTSS and lotss of art!! (#call of the void art)
Oneshot Masterpost: Character POV - A masterpost of oneshots for Call of the Void, organized by which character's POV it's in (or the most important one, if there's multiple, which some oneshots have!)
Oneshot Masterpost: Plot Order - This is the oneshot masterpost that's MOST IMPORTANT IF YOU WANNA CONSUME CALL OF THE VOID AS A STORY RIGHT NOW! It has all the same writings as the other masterpost, but here they're ordered in the vague plot progression I have in my head. There, the arcs are named, and have general synopses of what happens in them! Each oneshot also has a short synopsis beside it, plus are highlighted or marked if they contain more disturbing topics or not.
There's also a Pair Ask Game still up for it, where names and duo relationships are listed for your convenience to choose from!
Call of the Void also has a character ask blog @letters-to-the-archives
What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.
Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.
You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.
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I am... so very bad at being proud of myself. I've gotten better over the past couple of years. I spent a long time being taught and internalising that nobody wanted to hear about my silly little writing hobby, and that I wasn't that good anyway, and all the rest of it. I'm trying to break free of all of these sentiments because, after all, I can't know whether I'm rubbish or not if I never show anyone what I've got.
I've been told I should lean into the part of me that wants to write in abstracts and in allegories. The- as I call it- literary fictionness.
So I'll share an extract from a short story I've never shared in full. The first part of this extract, I believe, some of you may have seen before. But not the rest.
Beyond the colourbright hills, there is freefall. The breeze is stiffer still here, closer to a gale. We, the coin-givers, the river-crossers, the sun-bearers, gather like flocking birds. A few lean forward, swaying into the wind, eyes closed as they listen to the call of the void, considering their answer. Many hang back; rather you than me.
The drop is the only thing in this place that can be trusted, I think. The sweet swoop of it sings through my belly, already, though I am lost in the crowd and nowhere near the spot where ground gives way to air. I glance over my shoulder, at the mountains I have walked, somehow smaller from above. I wonder if they would have been a better place to fall: to die: to sink to my knees and let the sharp-edged grass pull me under.
I fear this drop. I fear the fall. I fear its end.
One by one, those close to the edge begin to jump, in twos and threes and some leaning out into nothing all alone. My heart clenches for every single one, and that is how I know that I am alive.
The movement of the crowd presses me closer to the edge.
I am not ready.
I will never be ready.
Both are true and neither makes the other false.
Dry earth crumbles under my toes, spiralling into the darkness. I cannot see far. The end could be anywhere; could be mere metres away instead of miles, and I would not know it.
My breath comes too fast. The air up here is mighty thin.
I fling out my arms for balance, staggering back- someone steps in close at my left, and tucks their shoulder underneath mine. It is bracing, but less so than their wild, terrified smile. My heart, banging at the inside of my ribcage like a prisoner trapped in the brig of a sinking ship, slows. I have never seen this person before in my life but, in this moment, we are kin.
Somebody else puts their hand in the small of my back, not pushing nor pressing. Still, I feel their fear through the sweat-slick press of their palm. Another hand squeezes the nape of my neck. Strong fingers enclose my right hand, so tightly that my bones grind.
I breathe in the air of the void. Tonight, today, on this hopeless cliffside, we are all afraid together.
There is no rush. I could wait here forever, until I am ready.
But I would be waiting, lost in this stomach-dropping moment of wild terror, forever.
The hand leaves my back, the shoulder leaves my ribs, the warm palm leaves my neck, as I step out into the dark. I can still feel the impressions of them, and will carry them wherever I go.
Gravity claims my body, irrevocable and daring. In its arms of Zephyr, I wait for what comes next.
Uh. Now, links, I suppose.
Day 38, my apocalypse longfic in the The Magnus Archives fandom (the only non-original work on this list).
A post about What Was Borrowed, my urban fantasy novel featuring a trans vampire hunter.
Pray Tell, a short fiction piece about a god in the process of falling.
Rendered Mute, a body-horror short.
Far Out- space horror!
Personal Growth, a body-horrorish short about envy.
All The Difference, a softer piece about family and life not turning out like you'd planned.
Desolation, a short fiction piece about... a tragic workplace accident, I guess?
Path of the Will-o'-the-Wisp, a character piece that does what it says on the tin.
Which two Holly Black novels have you read? I'll admit, the last thing she had a hand in that I read was the Spiderwick Chronicles, and I've been wondering if I should get into her solo stuff for a while now.
Thanks for the ask!
The ones I've read were The Cruel Prince (first of a trilogy) and The Stolen Heir (first of a duology). Both of them concern themselves deeply with faerie lore and court politics, in a way that's a more obvious/richer nod to the mythology than what my stories are.
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I'm proud of my overall progress with my writing, whether that's my streak of writing and posting a piece of flash fiction every Friday without fail since late 2024 (even being abroad hasn't stopped me, yay), or making some headway on my novel 🎉
I'm also really proud to drop the link to the first chapter of A Healing for the Birds! I finally completed it after being stuck in a rut with it for the longest time, so it gave me a great deal of happiness to say the least. Once I'm done work tomorrow, I hope to get the sails flying on Chapter Two 🎉
A Healing for the Birds (Chapter One) — One Last Dance Before Dawn
Also this month I got more flash fiction done, one of them being posted yesterday!
Under Death's Duvet
Voices From Beyond the Veil
A Note About the Inevitable
The Gathering of Snakes
Reflections
And one last thing: I have started posting on ao3! My flash fiction will go up there every Friday, and also I will eventually be posting some of my older pieces there too [eventually, some of them tie into A Healing for the Birds and as such, they'll appear in and around certain chapters ;) ]
What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.
Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.
You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.
We’re here to help rebuild interaction in the community, so get in there and have fun with it!
Out of my wips, I'm going to highlight two of them, the first being Cerigo.
For context, he is Cheyoria's father (and Eshani's estranged amour), I wrote him to be a decent father. One that's actually wholesome, he shows up and he's very thoughtful, if a bit strict, practical and pragmatic by times. Obviously having Eshani be gone has made life a bit tough for him, but he's doing his best.
The other one I'll mention, is Desemir Eschredaine, Helinda's High Minister. Here's the thing about him, he's an absent father. He barely shows up in his family's home sometimes (for work related reasons, but still!), he has his favourites (*cough* Sharigan, one of his eldest daughters, *cough*) and for the past four summer Solstices as of the start of A Healing for the Birds, he's been disappearing for reasons he doesn't disclose. His wife hates that last part so much, wonders why he's gone and she greatly looks forward to the end of his term as High Minister!
If Desemir does show up in the house, he's usually with Sharigan, priming her to enter Helindian politics as she gets older (she's fifteen). He is supportive of her, nice to some of her other siblings, but when it comes to Charimone, the daughter who inherited his side's magic abilities and became the black sheep of the family? He doesn't spend a lot of time with her, let alone say being familiar with how her magic works (she can blend into the shadows and turn into a shadowy wisp; Desemir's older family members are more able to manipulate shadows than blend into them).
And that lack of familiarity is what cost him and Charimone dearly. On the fourth summer Solstice of his term, he disappeared like he usually did. But not for a single moment did he notice that Charimone followed him via his shadow/the shadows to find out where/why he was gone for Solstice.
Know who did notice Charimone, though? [see here, and here!]
High Councillor Claudia Emar, the Court of Morilast's infamous crow lady and Desemir's sworn enemy/political rival.
Her crows interfere in Helinda's politics and daily life (though Desemir can't concretely prove it as normal crows and those crows can't be visually distinguished).
That moment when absent fatherhood gave his enemy leverage against him 💀😭🤦♀️
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What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.
Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.
You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.
We’re here to help rebuild interaction in the community, so get in there and have fun with it!
Lmaooooo, so my cast are getting thrown into Elfhame! (Where The Cruel Prince is set).
Alycja (one of A Healing for the Birds' protagonists) will probably struggle for a bit seeing as she's not faerie. The fae will be mystified as to why she's able to use magic or live longer than magicless humans. She would roll her eyes because she can't help but be reminded of Morilaste and she's like "ah lads, here we go again."
Eshani, Claudia and all their fellows will probably feel like they're in a weird version of home. The schemes and court politics are second nature to them, all the little superstitious things and different ways of using magic than their homeland will be things they'd have to adjust to.
Also, Claudia would feel a bit lost as her crows are no longer with her. She'd have to forge bonds with this world's crows or find new ways of gathering intelligence and spreading rumours and propaganda on people. But she would certainly hold her own and do very well.
What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.
Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.
You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.
We’re here to help rebuild interaction in the community, so get in there and have fun with it!
Overall in my writing, I don't dedicate a lot of details with regards to sexuality and the like, because aside from the odd romantic side-plot or something, the general subject matter of my writing does not follow that direction 😅
I will give a mention to Claudia and The Bloodcarver though. Neither of them want sex nor romance in their lives, and they're not great with physical affection either. They have far more important matters in their lives to be dealing with! There are definitely words and categories they do fit into in our terms, but in-universe the labels aren't really a thing (because I would need to sit and think about the worldviews that each of my world's groups or countries have in relation to gender, romance or sexuality, something I haven't gotten to yet admittedly).
But if Claudia or The Bloodcarver were to be pressed on the issue, they'd deflect the question and be condescending to whoever asked them that. You see, the reason Morilesian has no words for sexuality or romantic preferences is that not engaging in sex nor romance is a virtue.
Love, in an overt, romantic sense, is seen as liability, as weakness, and in any case, for High Councillors especially, their virtuous image is one of them providing for their court and for their niche. This in turn leads to their subjects below them trying to emulate such virtue, so a lot of the upper nobility also won't engage in sex nor romance (even if they might secretly want to). Their view on gender/expression? Who cares 🤷♀️
Meanwhile, in Helinda a lot of emphasis is placed on large, interconnected families, so romance/loving relationships are far more common, with polyamory being a common feature too (some households might have multiple heads of the household, others might only have one person/a single pair in that role).
