Whims and Wishes: A Quest Across Elsewhere

genre: high fantasy

current word count: 70k / 100k

What if the sword chose the wrong king?

Disease blackens the realms. Druids are persecuted, fae hide away in their hills, and history has been rewritten into lies. The lady of the lake’s sword is in the hands of a wrongfully chosen king, unbalancing the forces of life and death. Only when a new chosen takes the sword back can the land be healed, but it will take a quest across Elsewhere to do it. 

In a twist on King Arthur and Irish mythology, Ronan Glenwood must face the horrors she’s been sheltered from and let go of her doubts if she is to save the realm from itself. 

A vengeful druid with too much faith in destiny. A spy who’s given up on his court. A king with a two-hundred year debt to death. And Ronan, desperate for a cause worth dying for.

“I’m too busy to be lonely,” declares “Granny” Eva Barnes Henderson, who at age 83 lives alone in a small, time-weathered house near the banks of the Buffalo River.

HOUSE OF SEA AND STORM. — wip by @seabringers

❝ She peered over the forested wood in the east, and watched for a moment as the sun rose above the trees. Higher and higher it rose. The light of a new age. Like a new dawn was brightening on their world. In that, there was a knowing comfort.

You’ve taken that which I hold dear, young god. One day, and that day is not now, I will return that debt. It may take a thousand years, but one day my blood will end yours, and will take back tenfold of what is owed! ❞

genre: high fantasy

status: second draft, writing

pov: third person, multiple

themes and tropes: sapphic representation, arranged marriage, court intrigue, symbolism, chosen one, mythology, gods and titans, poc representation, secrets of the past, discovering ones power, morality, morally grey characters

trigger warning: fantasy typical violence

SUMMARY.

Who are you to deny the will of the gods?

Saera is only child of the last great King of Cileria, and a bastard. In a ploy to be rid of her, her uncle the new king, arranges a marriage with a foreign ruler.

Ravenna is the newly crowned Winter Queen, the death of her brothers and father haunt her. When her mother helps arrange an alliance with a powerful kingdom, who is she to say no?