#sai lore

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there's a deleted scene of her and cara giving each other massages during a spa day. as a result, when she went to train fire magic with alan later on and she set herself on fire, she started to sizzle, causing alan to panic and push her into a fountain. she was not pleased.

cara is a better swimmer than morreial because she spent most of her childhood underwater and, as a result, can fill her lungs with water and stop breathing to switch into her amphibian mode

there's a deleted scene of alan that was too dark to share because it was one of the more cruel things he did to his friends, something he doesn't really do otherwise. he induced a panic attack in morreial by triggering his ptsd in order to get him to reveal some damning information about himself whil he (alan) eavesdropped on his argument (morreial) with his parent's (the jervees). at the end of it, he ends up trying to blame the alter ego when the guilt kicks in, only for the other voice to respond with, "what are you talking about? i told you to leave ten minutes ago.”

he learns to swim from morreial and trusts him like a brother

morreial was my token traumatized character before younger me realized that it is NOT okay to have a token traumatized character. as a result, morreial's trauma responses are more typical of a clinical ptsd diagnosis. interestingly enough, he is the only oc in tov to cope with his trauma in a healthy and productive way, as he canonically goes to therapy

the reasons behind morreial’s infantile memory retention (he remembers being a baby vividly) is explicitly explored and explained in draft 3. every draft afterwards removes the explanation, so you never get the confirmed revelation of how he remembers everything (the basis of his trauma tbh)

i changed morreial’s name six times and at a certain point, at 7am before getting ready for school in the winter, i got frustrated and hyphenated all the names i could remember. hence morreial. just smooshed them all together

morreial was the antagonist of draft 2

there is CANONICALLY a rumour that evan is actually morreial's illegitimate child because of how SIMILAR they are

evan’s love language is making people necklaces and jewellery with the stones he mines

my fav evan arcs ranked:

evan in the rings (eoj)

tc arc (cos)

evan in the north (gotn)

evan, slayer of ividor (soc)

evan of the hollow (lotf)

the timelines and eras of soilaila are as follows:

the zaverenian era

the dragon era

the nainorean era

the cairoyas era

the limious era (aka the era of limiouses)

the transitional era (aka the post-incident period)

the singer era

the word ‘el in galka means “of”. due to the morphological changes to the cairoyas tongue and vocal chords in the beginning of the cairoyas era, the pronounciation of soilaila was originally “soi’el aila,” which means “land of the elemental deities”

there are motifs with the numbers 5 and 7 due to both of those numbers being my favourites (7 more than 5); 5 families of the zaverena, the arcane family being the 5th; the five members of the ____ family; the 5 elemental deities; the 5 heavenly deities; the 12 chapters of the arcanic scriptures (7+5); the 7 eras; the 5 nobility statuses; the 5 branches of hellash; the 5 sins; the 5 stages; the 5 breeds, etc…

people in soilaila are called “cairoyas”, which is a supernatural species capable of magic from the families of soilaila

most people have a specialty magic, but never discover it

the average age to discover one’s specialty magic is 12 years old

the year of nain is a milestone age in cairoyas culture, symbolizing the transition into adulthood and magical maturity (since that is the age in which a person niches into a specific magical family)

a child from parents of 2 different families will only inherit the magic of one, but will be capable of both until their year of nain; after their year of nain, whichever family their specialty magic hails from is their innate dominant family

the original year of nain was 14 years old before i aged it up to 18

the cairoyas do not have last names due to the century naming rule

the century naming rule is the law that states no two people can share the same name in soilaila; everyone must have a unique name and cannot reuse a name until the turn of a new century (i.e. there are no other alan’s that have been born within the last century because the name had to have been reserved only for him during his mother’s pregnancy)

the expecting mark is a temporary runic tattoo expecting mothers / pregnant women receive that support prenatal health of the mother and the child, as well as marks the mother’s eligibility to prenatal services (free healthcare, prenatal nutrition, magical enhancements and support, on-call doctors+midwives, and a reservation of two names per biological genders for the century naming rule)

it is against the law for a pregnant woman to not receive an expecting mark if she chooses to keep the child, as it is considered a form of child endangerment

the end of the limious era was marked by hilbert’s betrayal, as he became the first and only limious to ever lose his title

limiouses get a decade life extension for every year of service

hilbert had been a limious for 60 years before he lost his title, earning him 600 years of extra lifespan

the man to train hilbert into a limious was a man by the name of coze limious

when a person becomes branded as a morregal, their blood turns black, they begin internally bleeding and sometimes even vomit their original blood until it is entirely replaced with morregal blood, and they get an M engraved into their forehead through black magic. the entire process is torturously painful and results in the loss of all cairoyas rights and identity. including one’s name. the original name is conjoined with the brand “gal” (i.e. if a man named sebastian ended up being a gal, they would call him sebagal after his branding)

gal is considered a slur in soilaila, while the full word morregal is criminalized to use unless you are von doro or jer’vazir

minor titles of nobility are often destined through suffixes (i.e. ra, ja) whereas larger titles have their own prefixes or statuses (JQ, JE, J, JV, etc.)

in order to join the military ranks, you must abandon all other titles you possess (i.e. a ja that becomes a member of the military would lose their ja status); this is how raheer ends up losing his ja status and why evan is prohibited from enlisting

in lotf, the soilailan militia operates discreetly under jervee amara’s supervision

the el- prefix is used for nobles who married into their titles rather than earning them; for example, if jervee revenold was not a jervee on his own, but married riyzela and became a jervee through matrimony, he would be called el-jervee revenold instead

the only exceptions to the el- status demotion is with El-Hycan and El-Nooz

inen’s are the title for people capable of becoming a limious, whereas inene’s are inen candidates (remember what i said about the process being more thorough now? they learned from their mistakes lmao)

echoe and myuk are inene’s and should be referred to as echoe ne // echoe-ne and myuk-ne // myuk-ne. despite this, evan only ever refers to them as echoe and myuk

the original reason why evan doesn’t like myuk is because in ditm, she steals from him thinking he wouldn’t notice (he does.)

ditm is the acronym for the blueprint of the entire lotf series, which was originally just one book. it stands for “diamond in the mud” and refers to evan’s sword, which has many parallels with him in that version of the story

ditm was basically an epic because it was cos (cos+gotn) & eoj (eoj+mott) combined

soc’s original premise was meant to take place in the present day. for reference, tov takes place in the 1500s for the human calendar, and lotf takes place in the 1600s. soc’s of plot was set to take place in the 2000s.

ditm was named diamond in the mud as a parallel to evan’s xena sword, which holds a significantly less amount of importance in the lotf series. since the xena sword is a brilliant but violent diamond that blinds anyone that looks at it during its peak reflection, is found in mud swamps in the deep caverns of soilaila’s underbellies, tucked and hidden away, are rare, and incredibly powerful and lethal, it was meant to be a parallel to evan, who was a hidden child created in filth and yet horrifically lethal, beautiful, and powerful. a stone of the gods, as some people called it. and the material of yozar’s sceptre

in draft 3 of tov, caramel’s trauma and its relation to her stealing and illiteracy was more explored as you discovered the reason why she hates the schooling system, steals despite not needing to, and how she uses these survival skills as crutches or coping mechanism to deal with her constant feeling of social insecurity

there’s a deleted scene in draft 3 in which it’s revealed why cara still works a laborious job despite being wealthy (thanks to caramel): she was distributing all her earnings to the abandoned orphans of the vanin ring in order to fund their educations and ensure none of them ended up like her. when morreial discovers this fact, not only does he join her, but drafts up and submits a bill proposal to the jervees to set up publically funded orphanages and schoolings for the orphans who lost their families during the incident. the jervees actually turn down this proposition, which results in a fight between morreial and his parents, the very fight that alan takes advantage of to enter morreial’s mind

draft 3 showcased the preferential treatment alan got over everyone in soilaila by the jervees, including favouritism over their own son (morreial). this is a big reason why draft 3 morreial is so snarky and resentful of alan

draft 2 had a scene where alan and morreial went dolphin riding together and ended up racing each other. alan won, and morreial was pissy for the rest of their trip.

due to the campiness of the draft and the presence of “theatrical morreial”, draft 3 has an extremely quotable scene that i still mention randomly // burst out into to this day. it is when they are walking in a desert, morreial starts cosplaying as a god to prove a point to alan, and then proceeds to point to the skies, trying to beckon rain and thunder (because he’s a water dancer), and yells on the top of his lungs, “let us WALK!” but because it’s a desert and there are no clouds, he gets nothing, and he ended up shamefully putting his arm back down and grumbling at alan to get a move on instead.

the warehouse scene™️ in the og og draft is homologous to the ruins scene in the canon draft of sai, except in that draft, alan allows the dragon to try to fly away before shooting it down (kinda more horrifying when you think about it. he watched it fall to make sure it died after giving it false hope of survival)

in draft 2, alan doesn’t kill à black dragon in the ruins, but he does come back to the villa the next day and kills morreial in front of everyone.

draft 2-4 had a confrontation as the pre-climax scene, where markum, alan, caramel, cara, morreial, and hilbert were all sitting in a room trying not to strangle each other. when von doro joins the conversation, everyone fails and proceeds to jump hilbert

Markum removed his brooched cloak from his shoulder and placed it on his bureau with a sigh. “It is late, Iyzela ja. You should return home. I will send for a Seeker to escort you.”

Iyzela bowed and dismissed herself. However, when we were two paces out the door, she lingered at the threshold and listened in on Markum’s private soliloquies.

“That arrogant fool…” he whispered to himself. “He does not understand the forces he toys with.”

“No one does, Jer’vazir,” Iyzela spoke from the doorway. Her boldness shocked me. I did not expect her to actually vocalize her displeasure, especially considering her oath of silence in every memory. Her nerve struck louder when Markum drew his attention towards her. “They do not understand because Hilbert was not wrong in his claims.”

“Iyzela.”

The warning sent a shiver through my spine, but mine alone. Iyzela remained unnerved.

“You cannot tell me, Jer’vazir, that Hilbert’s growing authority over Soilaila does not alarm you.”

My father’s sigh was cynical. “Do not concern yourself over Hilbert, Iyzela ja. He is but a man.”

“But also a Limious,” she rebuked.

His frown dimpled his brows. “The one who gifted him that title has revoked it from him. He may claim the people hold him in that regard, and while I admit the riots speak in his favour, the fact remains that the monarch is Von Doro. He may call himself whatever he pleases, but he is a Limious no longer.” A strained silence stretched between them. “But that is not what truly bothers you.”

“The monarchy’s opacity remains its own greatest enemy,” Jervee Iyzela argued. Her voice was firm and her stance sharp and defiant. “Hilbert only threatens civil war because Von Doro’s lack of transparency enables his audacity. They respect him now more than ever, Jer’vazir, because he is passionate about his ideologies; but more importantly, honest about them. Every subject wishes to know their ruler, and that is intelligence Von Doro has denied her people for centuries now. They grow weary, and the cost of their weariness is why we stand at these crossroads.”

The midnight moonbeams illuminated Markum’s face with long shadows. When he turned his eyes towards us, they were darker than night and more slyly feral than Hilbert’s had ever been.

“Von Doro governs the people, but there are forces that govern even Von Doro. Tell me, Iyzela—do you truly wish to uncover those demons?”

At last, a shiver coursed through Iyzela’s body like an ailment. Still, she retained her composure enough to ask, “Do you know of them, Jer’vazir?”

His smile was mystical, especially in the moonlight.

“Day and night, I whisper in their ears.”

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