#faehunter

Give a fact, get a fact

Oh that's cool and quite creative!

thank you for the tag @emelkae !

from Faehunter:

“I would offer you hospitality. The road must be a hard one, this close to winter.” “We hunt a fairling, and mustn’t dally.” Vier briefly forgot her manners as she peered at him. “Sire.” “Yes. Of course.” His teeth were very white and very straight.

I’m sick of this snow so I wanna know: What are some of the first signs of Spring in your world? If not Spring, then something that marks the end of something long and dreary, like a space haul, or a voyage at sea.

Thank you for the open ask @worldbuildingwedasks!

WIP Intro: Faehunter

Genre: Fantasy, adventure with mild horror, romance and LGBTQ+ themes.

POV: Third person limited.

Status: Undergoing Content and Line edits, ~70,000 words.

Themes: Living forests and ancient powers, reluctant-allies-to-enthusiastic-lovers, mountains, beginning to find a family but not quite there yet, reincarnation, monsters and folklore, guilt, friendship is magic, small rural towns, old magic, the power of love, old gods, unquestioned authority corrupts, balancing the old and the new, the Otherworld. 

Characters:

Lai, the Feyling:

Light-hearted and free-spirited, Lai spends her days befriending the animals of the forest and chasing bandits away from hapless travelers. Though she only came to this world on midwinters eve, she feels like she’s lived here forever. With little memory of the otherworld, Lai is content to marvel at the beauty of the forest, brew beer in her meadow and find lost children in exchange for companionship and the occasional slice of honeycomb.

Vier, The Beasthunter

Orphaned at a young age in a monster attack, Vier was taken to the beasthunter academy and reared in the care of the Church. Wielding a sharp sword and a sharper tongue, she has made herself a family among the hunters. But her mind is cursed with curiosity, questions and doubts as to certain doctrines. Meeting Lai only makes her wonder more, for the beast lives in harmony and balance with the local community.

Synopsis:

The beasthunter Vier finds herself in the mountains, tasked with slaying a feyling. Lai walks the living wood with a crown of flowers and a sword of amber, unafraid and beloved of the local villages. But the nature of the beast is irrelevant. Creatures such as this corrupt and devour mortal souls. They must be destroyed.

A greater problem looms: a Gauntwolf, a monstrous manifestation of hunger and rot. Neither of them can kill the beast alone. Though it goes against everything Vier was ever taught, they strike a deal to hunt the monster together.

But the longer Vier stays, the more complicated the situation becomes. Lai’s very existence challenges much of what she thought to be true. To kill her seems wrong. Images of her adorn every local shrine. She can resist the rot of the gauntwolf. What exactly is she? And how can a monster and a hunter ever trust one another?

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Chapter 13

“Are you going to kill me?” Amon spoke so easily, so lightly that he might have been choosing fruit for breakfast. “I’d rather get it over with, if so.”

I ought to. He is surely a menace. But…

“It would be easier to search with two people.” There was safety to be had in numbers. Even if one had to ally with a witch.

“Not yet, then.” The edge of his mouth curled. “Good enough, I suppose.”   

Stripe leaned past her and bared his teeth, the perfect picture of equine malice.

“I can’t speak for him, though.” Vier couldn’t stop herself from smiling. “I wouldn’t make any sudden movements, if I were you.”

Thanks for the open ask @booksrockmyface ! I’ll answer this for Vier and Lai, the main couple from Faehunter.