People of The Wing

Original story blog! - very much a work in progress - slow posting - feel free to send me asks!

[peopleofthewing]

Welcome!

This is the blog for my original story, which has the working title of People of the Wing. I need to work on that…

My main blog is @jurassicobsessor and my fanfiction blog is @heresthefanfiction.

Summary:

For over a hundred years, Zephyros has been home to five houses of winged people: House Raven, House Owl, House Hawk, House Vulture, and House Song. Legend says that long ago, the houses lived in harmony, with many people freely moving between houses as they wished.

But House Raven grew power-hungry, and began a mission to rule over the whole continent. Alarmed, the Mother-Goddess, beloved by all houses, gifted each house with a powerful magically artifact. The artifacts allowed the other houses to stop House Raven. Or so the story goes…

Nowadays, the houses live separately. Relationships with people from other houses are forbidden. Leaving your birth house to live in another is highly frowned upon.

But worst of all, Queen Andraste of House Raven has picked up the conquest where her ancestors left off. House Vulture, a nomadic people, have already fallen.

A rebellion has begun, but they are severely outnumbered. Some houses are willing to stand and fight, while others are closing their borders.

Allegiances are questioned, sacrifices are made, and bonds are formed.

But in the end, who will win?

Thanks for your support!

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[peopleofthewing]

For over a hundred years, Zephyros has been home to five houses of winged people: House Raven, House Owl, House Hawk, House Vulture, and House Song. Legend says that long ago, the houses lived in harmony, with many people freely moving between houses as they wished.

But House Raven grew power-hungry, and began a mission to rule over the whole continent. Alarmed, the Mother-Goddess, beloved by all houses, gifted each house with a powerful magically artifact. The artifacts allowed the other houses to stop House Raven. Or so the story goes…

Nowadays, the houses live separately. Relationships with people from other houses are forbidden. Leaving your birth house to live in another is highly frowned upon.

But worst of all, Queen Andraste of House Raven has picked up the conquest where her ancestors left off. House Vulture, a nomadic people, have already fallen.

A rebellion has begun, but they are severely outnumbered. Some houses are willing to stand and fight, while others are closing their borders.

Allegiances are questioned, sacrifices are made, and bonds are formed.

But in the end, who will win?

@untestedtheory @merilles @amazingwynter @decennia @lizisshortforlizard @wordspin-shares @elecktrum @luucypevensie @themaradwrites @oliviabelova @bluejay-in-flight @arrthurpendragon @fingons-rad-harp

[peopleofthewing]

For over a hundred years, Zephyros has been home to five houses of winged people: House Raven, House Owl, House Hawk, House Vulture, and House Song. Legend says that long ago, the houses lived in harmony, with many people freely moving between houses as they wished.

But House Raven grew power-hungry, and began a mission to rule over the whole continent. Alarmed, the Mother-Goddess, beloved by all houses, gifted each house with a powerful magically artifact. The artifacts allowed the other houses to stop House Raven. Or so the story goes…

Nowadays, the houses live separately. Relationships with people from other houses are forbidden. Leaving your birth house to live in another is highly frowned upon.

But worst of all, Queen Andraste of House Raven has picked up the conquest where her ancestors left off. House Vulture, a nomadic people, have already fallen.

A rebellion has begun, but they are severely outnumbered. Some houses are willing to stand and fight, while others are closing their borders.

Allegiances are questioned, sacrifices are made, and bonds are formed.

But in the end, who will win?

@untestedtheory @merilles @amazingwynter @decennia @lizisshortforlizard @wordspin-shares @elecktrum @luucypevensie @themaradwrites @oliviabelova @bluejay-in-flight @arrthurpendragon @fingons-rad-harp

[peopleofthewing]

For over a hundred years, Zephyros has been home to five houses of winged people: House Raven, House Owl, House Hawk, House Vulture, and House Song. Legend says that long ago, the houses lived in harmony, with many people freely moving between houses as they wished.

But House Raven grew power-hungry, and began a mission to rule over the whole continent. Alarmed, the Mother-Goddess, beloved by all houses, gifted each house with a powerful magically artifact. The artifacts allowed the other houses to stop House Raven. Or so the story goes…

Nowadays, the houses live separately. Relationships with people from other houses are forbidden. Leaving your birth house to live in another is highly frowned upon.

But worst of all, Queen Andraste of House Raven has picked up the conquest where her ancestors left off. House Vulture, a nomadic people, have already fallen.

A rebellion has begun, but they are severely outnumbered. Some houses are willing to stand and fight, while others are closing their borders.

Allegiances are questioned, sacrifices are made, and bonds are formed.

But in the end, who will win?

@untestedtheory @merilles @amazingwynter @decennia @lizisshortforlizard @wordspin-shares @elecktrum @luucypevensie @themaradwrites @oliviabelova @bluejay-in-flight @arrthurpendragon @fingons-rad-harp

[peopleofthewing]

For over a hundred years, Zephyros has been home to five houses of winged people: House Raven, House Owl, House Hawk, House Vulture, and House Song. Legend says that long ago, the houses lived in harmony, with many people freely moving between houses as they wished.

But House Raven grew power-hungry, and began a mission to rule over the whole continent. Alarmed, the Mother-Goddess, beloved by all houses, gifted each house with a powerful magically artifact. The artifacts allowed the other houses to stop House Raven. Or so the story goes…

Nowadays, the houses live separately. Relationships with people from other houses are forbidden. Leaving your birth house to live in another is highly frowned upon.

But worst of all, Queen Andraste of House Raven has picked up the conquest where her ancestors left off. House Vulture, a nomadic people, have already fallen.

A rebellion has begun, but they are severely outnumbered. Some houses are willing to stand and fight, while others are closing their borders.

Allegiances are questioned, sacrifices are made, and bonds are formed.

But in the end, who will win?

@untestedtheory @merilles @amazingwynter @decennia @lizisshortforlizard @wordspin-shares @elecktrum @luucypevensie @themaradwrites @oliviabelova @bluejay-in-flight @arrthurpendragon @fingons-rad-harp

[peopleofthewing]

For over a hundred years, Zephyros has been home to five houses of winged people: House Raven, House Owl, House Hawk, House Vulture, and House Song. Legend says that long ago, the houses lived in harmony, with many people freely moving between houses as they wished.

But House Raven grew power-hungry, and began a mission to rule over the whole continent. Alarmed, the Mother-Goddess, beloved by all houses, gifted each house with a powerful magically artifact. The artifacts allowed the other houses to stop House Raven. Or so the story goes…

Nowadays, the houses live separately. Relationships with people from other houses are forbidden. Leaving your birth house to live in another is highly frowned upon.

But worst of all, Queen Andraste of House Raven has picked up the conquest where her ancestors left off. House Vulture, a nomadic people, have already fallen.

A rebellion has begun, but they are severely outnumbered. Some houses are willing to stand and fight, while others are closing their borders.

Allegiances are questioned, sacrifices are made, and bonds are formed.

But in the end, who will win?

@untestedtheory @merilles @amazingwynter @decennia @lizisshortforlizard @wordspin-shares @elecktrum @luucypevensie @themaradwrites @oliviabelova @bluejay-in-flight @arrthurpendragon @fingons-rad-harp

[peopleofthewing]

Allard

Role: Main Character

Name: Allard

House: Vulture

Family: Mother, Father, Older Brother 1, Older Brother 2

Faceclaim: Gürbey Ileri

[peopleofthewing]

Lord Wyatt

Role: Main Character

Name: Wyatt

House: Song

Status: Lord and Heir Apparent of House Song, Rebellion Sector Head

Family: Empress Rhiannon (aunt), Father (deceased), Mother (deceased)

Faceclaim: Finn Jones

[did-i-do-this-write]

How to Support Writers During the Scourge of A.I. Bullshit

Do

Interact with us. Talk to us. Reach out to us. Many writers physically write for themselves, but they share for others. To build a community and connect with someone, to learn from them, and to make a genuine connection through something they've created. Comments, questions, rambling tags, they all mean that our writing reached someone who genuinely enjoyed it.

Share our work. This does not mean repost, this means reblog and/or send the link to friends and other potential readers. Some writers may have negative experiences with their work being shared on other platforms (such as discord), but reblogging is almost always appreciated so we can reach a wider audience. Even if you don't have anything to say or comment, it will help.

Ask questions. Many writers are dying to talk about the creative choices they made, the word choice they fought with until they got it just right, the details they added just HOPING someone would notice it. If you wish you could get more context/detail about a piece, odds are all you have to do is ask!

Treat us like humans (because we are). Crazy concept, right? The thing that terrifies me the most about all this is the potential that we take humanity out of the arts. We replace it with A.I. until human creativity becomes irrelevant because it's more convenient and more profitable.

We are not robots making content for your entertainment, we are people sharing stories to make genuine human connections and share our passions. Stories that take hours, days, months, even years of our lives to properly craft. We practice and study and learn so that we can express ourselves skillfully. Even when done as a hobby for fun, there is heart and energy and time put into the final draft.

And finally, Don't

Use A.I. for anything. Because the more it's used, the more advanced it becomes. The more advanced it becomes, the harder it will be to discern a genuine human touch between an A.I. regurgitating what it's been taught.

In the end, this is a plea. I'm begging you. Do not give A.I. the ability to replace us.

[peopleofthewing]

Empress Rhiannon

Role: Side Character

Name: Rhiannon

House: Song

Status: Empress of House Song

Family: Lord Wyatt (nephew), Wyatt’s father (brother), Wyatt’s mother (sister-in-law)

Faceclaim: Caroline Henderson

[antigonehappy]

character who is sun-coded but not in the traditional ray-of-sunshine way. character who is sun-coded in the sense that they burn hot and bright and powerful, that they’re a raging fury of fire and passion, and that maybe, just maybe, they are destroying themselves as they do so.

[peopleofthewing]

Crown Princess Celia

Role: Main Character

Name: Celia

House: Owl

Status: Crown Princess of House Owl, General of House Owl

Family: King Helios (older brother), Queen Iris (sister-in-law)

Faceclaim: Claudia Kim

[peopleofthewing]

I'm here from OC Bingo since you mentioned hoping people would hop over here! I've got some questions for you about your original story, The People of the Wing.

Give us a small lore drop about an aspect of your choosing in the lovely world you've made.

What is Allard and Cassian's relationship like?

What's something you're proud of coming up with for this world/story?

What's the inspiration behind naming the Houses after birds?

If you had to put yourself into a House, which would you be in?

Let's get meta! Pick a character and tell us how you think audiences/characters would talk about them in fandom spaces.

What's the Empress' motivation behind being so pacifistic/anti-war?

What is the aim of the Rebellion in the story?

And a question for you as an author, which format do you prefer, scriptwriting or prose?

Oh you have no idea how much I’m smiling right now. Thank you so much!

1. House Song citizens typically live in sort of pod houses that hang from trees, since the trees in their forests are almost like megafauna, especially the main tree that the palace is located in.

2. Allard and Cassian start off as complete opposites and even enemies. They slowly learn to trust each other and become pretty much best friends. They’ve got each other’s backs, always. Once that trust is earned, it’s complete loyalty. Allard is very conscious that Cassian has a not so great past and they do their best to gently remind him when that starts to show through. And Cassian appreciates it as he learns to be a better person.

3. I’m really proud of the geographical set up I put together. I just kinda winged it but I love it.

4. Well, I needed a way to sort of group the people and it made sense to me to sort of group them by type of bird. House Raven (named because their leaders always historically have had raven wings), House Hawk (most of them have hawk wings), House Owl (most of them have owl wings), House Song (the all have songbird wings), House Vulture (most of them have vulture wings).

5. I’m a mountains and pine trees girly, so definitely House Raven.

6. Lord Fenmore my beloved. My poor tragic boy.

7. Empress Rhiannon is a very interesting character. She’s practically raised her nephew Wyatt. His parents died when he was very young, and they way they died is very key to why she’s such a pacifist. His parents (and a bunch of others) were killed in a border skirmish. Wyatt’s mother was originally supposed to be empress, so her death impacted Rhiannon a lot. She vowed to make sure that none of her people, Wyatt especially, ever had to deal with the grief and sadness that she did.

8. The rebellion was formed with the purpose of stopping House Raven from taking over the continent, and to fix a lot of crooked laws within House Raven.

9. I definitely prefer prose, but this story just works better as a screenplay. Plus, it’s a fun way to break out of my comfort zone and push myself.

[tannoreth-blog]

character building question: if your character is Eagle One, who is

Been There Done That

Currently Doing That

It Happened Once In A Dream

If I Had To Pick A Dude

Eagle Two

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New ask game: Send me an oc and I’ll fill this out!!!

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.

AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]

This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.