#mistwind

My Mistwind kickstarter edition came in, and we wasted no time getting it to the table 😍

her drawings of Niralin can be found here and Reagan here

Niralin was inspecting the outreaches of the camp with Taiath when they noticed the disturbance. People were murmuring in hushed voices to each other, worried looks on their faces. “What’s going on?” Taiath was the first to ask. Niralin frowned thoughtfully. The camp was too quiet. Only the children who didn’t know any better were still playing. As she watched, they too paused in their games. One by one they all turned their faces upward, staring at the sky. Niralin followed their line of sight—and swore. “Oh, crap.” She turned back toward the centre of the camp and began to jog.

ah yes. So Edyn has a sort of recurring memory loss. She could go for months and not lose any memory, and then wake up and she’s completely forgotten the last few days. One thing that sucks is she knows that she could lose all her memories all over again because how much she loses is really inconsistent. When she starts travelling with Lande he ends up giving her a journal to write everything down so she doesn’t have to trust them to fill in the blanks.

strap in my friend

so the series as a whole is about a conflict between two countries: Layera and Araynn. Historically speaking, they go way back. A little bit of backstory here is that the two countries were both allies once. Long story cut short, something happened and each country blamed the other for it. Years and years later (I'm talking centuries), Layera decides to invade Araynn. This is despite the fact that Araynn is a peaceful country that dedicates it's time and resources into helping the needy instead of military. They do have a standing army, it's just very small. Araynn had something that Layera needed, and combined with the ill-feelings from the past, they decided: hey? why not invade? (because it's rude maybe? just a thought). Anyhow Layera slaughtered most of the adult population and either enslaved the children or had them shipped off to Layera to be raised there as "good citizens of the empire". Yeah those kids were treated like crap.

But the main part of the story involves a branch of the rebels led by Bayr with Iyla and Niralin backing him up (tentatively named The Sparrows) and their conflict with Elizar. Since book 1 is from the perspective of Ignorant Edyn™ you don't know much about this other than the conflict is personal and could involve a) the dragon b) ryan?? Edyn isn't sure or c) Edyn herself