If you are bored and in need of an OC lore dump, well here is a little project that i've been working on [Trying to work on, Writer's block is a bitch :[ ] The is a sequel to a story made by my cousin @6sneet-snart9 called 'Nightfall'
The tale of a mother and her six children living in the forest submerged in darkness as a result of a war. Rowan tries her best to protect her children by ways the young ones have grown to live by, to daily prayers to the god, and to ancient rituals. All it took was for one little child to grow curious of the forest her mother forbade her adventure in. When given shrinking powers by the god of the forest as a reward, Pitch can now explore the unreachable inches of the forest and discover old monuments built in the past.
Though Pitch would be the primary focus of the story, each child gets their own story that shows either how they live or grow to realise their mother’s absurd ways.
{This series is a sequel to ‘Nightfall’ created by my cousin}
The full name of the project is called. ‘Folktrees. Tales under the Layla’
She is the main character of ‘FolkTrees’
At a young age, Pitch loved to explore the forest and would often get lost, but she would be guided back by what she called “The mysterious voice”
As she grew older, Pitch wanted to know more about this mysterious voice and so explored far and wide in the forest to find it, as she does, she would often save little creatures who were stuck or play in the stream. The spirit of the forest, portrayed as these pair of sharp green eyes, had looked over Pitch and was that ‘mysterious voice’
One day, that spirit showed itself to Pitch and expressed its gratitude by granting Pitch the power to shrink herself. With this new power, Pitch was able to explore unseen parts of the forest, which had brought her to discovering the hidden temple of the gods, she was so fascinated by it, she went to go tell her mother and siblings, her mother knows about her powers as she accidentally revealed them through her excitement. Though Rowan doesn’t mention it, she is extremely envious of her daughter and cross that the gods had blessed a disruptive person as her child with these groundbreaking powers. When Pitch returned from her adventure, Rowan was furious and had performed a ritual with her children to ‘sacrifice Pitch to the gods as an apology’ by burning her!
But, the spirit had saved her, by blowing her out of the ritual.
Frightened, Pitch left the forest for good and hid in the village past bristles and is has some part in ‘Nightfall’ IDK.
Her story can be shown in the tales:
‘The Wind that blows the Sacrifice’
Her design is based on things from the forest.
Her short brown-straight hair so it won’t get caught in something while she is exploring.
Her short dress is made from leaves, sewed together by her mother.
Brown leather gloves to make it easier to climb.
A little bright leaf neck wear.
A cape she found near a pound to other worlds. [Likely belonged to her father before he left]
She is the second oldest. She is 12 years old.
At such a young age, Sylvan has her mother on her back constantly, always being the one to look after her siblings or do some work as she is the eldest lady and has to learn it for the future.
Sylvan is a deer hybrid, she has antlers of a deer.
She is always on alert, because she needs to know her sibling’s every move, as to not get punished by her mother.
Rowan sees herself in Sylvan and doesn’t like it, she almost tries and changes her to match the life she once had, further up the stream.
One day, as Sylvan was watching the village, mostly to make sure her siblings don’t head out there, she meets Coral, a village girl. She instantly falls in love with her, Sylvan never got a proper talk from her mother about love, so she was quite confused about these feelings.
As she spent time with Coral, her siblings found out, and of course, nothing was safe in the hands of them and so Rowan found out, and forbade Sylvan from seeing Coral.
Sylvan entered a state of loneliness and isolated herself from everyone else, as for when she finally made a friend outside the forest, it was taken away from her.
And when the day Pitch left, Sylvan was under pressure to make sure her siblings were alright and not hurt from their mother’s outburst. And as for the relationship between Sylvan and Rowan, Sylvan shielded her siblings away, well tried to, they had their own coping mechanisms, Jordan was out all the time and refusing to come back, Archie would bury himself in the leaves, Laurel would adventure off to talk to a “Friend” she had made. And Grove would spend his days sitting at the river. This gave time for Sylvan to sneak off and reunite with Coral.
Coral would try her best to help out, like sneak food to her or give some spare clothing she didn’t need.
‘Coping with the Escaped’
She wears a green wooly jumper to keep warm and a brown scarf, white gloves and brown fur boots. She has long golden hair that Coral decorates with flowers sometimes.
He is the second youngest, being 6 years old.
He is shy and mostly likes to bury himself in leaves and get them in his hair and ears.
In relations with his mother, he always joins her for prayers, even with his little knowledge of the Gods but supports his mother.
He is sensitive to shouting and just follows the crowd as he became lost and confused when his father left.
He is nonverbal and relies on his mother to know what he wants, that’s why he sticks with her alot, as she is teaching him sign language, but at the same time encouraging him to be brave.
After his older sister’s disappearance, Sylvan mostly leaves Archie do his own things as she feels it comforts him, but in reality, with all that alone time, Archie feels scared and has been suffering with PTSD because of it. He has also experienced alot of anxiety from being out in the woods.
His clothing is simple. He has curly short brown hair.
A light brown long shirt.[Mostly so, he doesn't hurt himself] A dark brown clothing collar.
Dark brown pants and black shoes.
They are the third oldest, 11 years old.
Jordan is a grey squirrel hybrid.
They are non-binary as they felt they didn’t know what to be, they hated being a girl, but didn’t want to being a boy either as they knew the responsibilities of being one.
They are a troublemaker, mostly adventuring out in the forest, hunting down little animals, just like how their father taught them too. When they’re old enough, Rowan will teach them how to cook their own food, Jordan can not wait!
They have a close relationship with Grove, trying to play pranks on him but Grove somehow knows. Grove tries to give them advice about growing up and being independent but Jordan doesn’t want to listen and will do it their own way.
They love violence and blood, thinks it’s the best.
They get annoyed when Sylvan tells them to stop with their silliness or to go look for Pitch [“Ugh, why is she always missing!”]
After Pitch left, Jordan was almost shocked by their mother’s actions and vowed to never do violence again. But they regret their outrageous behaviour and so they go to the deepest part of the forest to think.
They’re too scared to ask Grove for help, because they don't want to be embarrassed from the times they didn’t want Grove’s help and after all that’s happened, they feel like Grove might not want to talk to them anymore.
They wear a grey and white striped jumper. Their hair is in a bun but some strands are loose.
They wear grey baggy pants because they like loose stuff.
They sometimes wear white gloves.
They wear a small white neck ruffle.
They stand out with their orange eyes.
She is the cutest and youngest of the family. She is a Possum hybrid and has trouble getting over her tail.
She is bubbly and playful and just like Pitch, she likes to play in the forest as well and loves hearing stories about her sister’s adventures.
She doesn’t understand her mother’s beliefs as she is too young.
One day, as Laurel was left to play in the forest, she encounters the Bark, a human tree. It is said that Bark is the embodiment of the forest’s intention. He was created by the spirit of the forest as a guide for those who don’t know about the forest, so he teaches them the goodness of the land and how everyone should enjoy and adventure in it, as that is what the god wanted.
Laurel and Bark spend so many days dancing and signing. Bark tells stories about the war that he calls. ‘The longest Sleep’
Laurel tells her mother and her siblings about Bark but Rowan only plays it off as an imaginary friend, but as Laurel explains details that even Rowan never knew of, that’s when Rowan suspected more.
Laurel couldn’t quite understand the sacrifice her mother tried to perform on Pitch, so after Pitch left, Laurel visited her mother for a while, but one day when Laurel visited, Rowan lashed out at her. Laurel was confused and scared so she stayed with Bark for awhile.
Since she’s the youngest, Rowan dresses Laurel up in spare dresses that she had when she was younger. Her hair is neatly cut short.
She has white tights and a yellow dress.
Grove is the eldest and in his teenage years, 13
He has a quiet nature and has a more open mind of the world.
He’s very smart for his age.
As the oldest, Grove is the first to carry out the rituals her mother performed up in the her settlement.
Grove spends his days sitting near the river and watching it, his father would tell him tales about the river and its knowledge.
His first ritual he did was where he carved a message on a stone with his own blood.
His mother had done this when she was up in her settlement.
From then on, Grove had to wear a bandage around his arm as to not let his future enemies mock his placement.
Grove tries to give advice to his siblings but it never works because they don’t listen, nor understand.
After Pitch ran away, Grove never expressed how he felt, but had a sense that he knew of his mother’s ways, so just spend all his time at the stream.
He wears a mask made of bark from a tree.
He has very thin grey hair with a single green highlight.
He wears a light brown turtleneck.
He has a belt that holds his jeans.
He has a grey cloak from his father and his right hand is completely bandaged.
The one behind the suffering.
Rowan grew up in a strong settlement made by the god’s worshippers.
She was forced into this religious belief at a young age, and she never understood it.
As she got older, she met Zeno, a bear hybrid from another world.
The two run off together and start a new life away from the settlement.
They have six children together and raise them in their own home.
Until the battle happened, during it, Rowan could not find Zeno anywhere and believed that he either died or left the world completely.
So, she vowed to protect their children and made them do no harm [ Though that didn’t work for Jordan-]
She was extremely cautious of each child, though it soon grew on her that Pitch was not like the rest of her siblings, she would adventure off for what felt like forever and often be late for prayer.
Rowan had turned to the God’s for protection, as she believed they saved her and her children from the war. She was very superstitious and that made her head worse and she would get headaches, the only one who helped her physically was Grove, doing his best to make medicine for her, though she never showed it, Grove was her favourite, as he was the eldest, she wanted to make his experience with connecting with the God’s more memorable and holy by performing the rituals that she had to in her old settlement, she can’t wander off to find it, as she feared she’d get lost in the dark of the forever night sky.
When she had found out about Pitch’s powers, she grew very envious and curious as to why her third youngest was gifted it. She believed her own daughter was a threat to the God’s and the forest, and was convinced that she can save it, by burning her daughter, but before the fire could reach her, Pitch was blown out of the ritual Rowan had set up.
Rowan was in shock that the God’s were not in her favour and after Pitch left, all feelings for her children were gone and she felt that all that hard work she did to protect her children were gone.
‘The Aftermath of Tonight’
‘What’s poured with Love Spills’
She wears an orange dress that she wore the night of the war.
She has extremely long blonde hair. [That’s kinda it really-]
If you have made it this far, thank you <3
Plz ignore any mistakes thanks
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