#septhen

(uwaga: pełny plik ma wielkość A4, jest dość duży)

Obiecałam, więc wołam, @smimon!

Because of reasons, 15 stosunkowo głównych postaci. Z komentarzami KD. Stanowi to zebranie wyglądów jak i matrycę kolorystyczną na przyszłość. Aliane - główna bohaterka, Mieczymagini.

Xerkes - ukochany Aliane, mag.

Kassandra - kuzynka Aliane, lekarka.

Alicor - generał wojska jak wszyscy powyżsi, Mieczymag

Coesic - pułkownik, Mieczymag.

Wenus - namiestniczka Cerresji, mag, przy okazji w zasadzie bóstwo.

Tańcząca Śmierć - dużo zamieszania.

Lasterina - bardzo potężna magini, elfka starej krwi.

Golden - dwuipółtysiącletni smok.

Amber Goldya - Najwyższa Jaszczurka, szefowa tej rasy.

Septhen - Odbicie Xerkesa, demon, współrządzący państwem Archevic.

Amethea - caryca Archevic, czterechsetletnia magini.

Socrea - młodsza i przyrodnia siostra Lasteriny (jej matka była półelfką).

Bezoki Łucznik - w sumie złol, mag.

Król Demonów - bóstwo chaosu.

Red Queen and her Court Jester

That’s actually both a pun and a character’s description.

Amethea is the queen (actually a tsaritsa) of Archevic – a country which consists of black dust, gold and a small number of castles (precisely in that order). The country has been desolated by wars of black mages, who right now are actually its only population. Almost a thousand years after the great war, that changed all quiet meadows into barren plains of black dust and provided the citizens with huge amounts of gold, internal politics are still schemes and coups. It has been steady only since she took the throne. Or rather since she has been helped by Septhen – a demon of so called Reflection type, which means he looks just like his original (Xerkes in this case) but acts completely differently. Whenever close to the aforementioned original, the illusion keeping the normal look of the eyes doesn’t work and they too are completely different – a negative. This very demon, a brute, a manipulator, a sadist and a born politician, helped Amethea stick to power surprisingly long for an Archevic ruler. And he has no intention of giving up.

As for why it’s a pun:

Both Red Queen and Court Jester are names of evolutionary theories. Red Queen is a reference to a Alice Through the Looking Glass quote: Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!. Evolutionary arms race. However, it does also have its purpose as a description of Amethea’s policy – she needs to be as clever as her adversaries to stay on the throne and twice as clever to uncover schemes before they grow too dangerous. According to Court Jester, on the other hand, the greatest influence on the evolution are abiotic factors like climate. Just like in the Archevic politics, the most important thing is not who’s in power or who will be, it’s who’s in Septhen’s favour. I am the abiotic.