#8 men

[meadow-roses]

rp fun with @starrystories2 ! 💚💚

[starrystories2]

hiiiiiii please tell me about your stories <3

Oh hi!

Where to start!

I've been working on an original world and story for the last five years. It's called Our Collective Witness (previously called 8 men). It's about a found family that forms between 9 people on all three sides of a war. As they try to survive, they learn how no side of the war really has any moral high ground. An assassin must decide if she should live or die. A spy has to choose between following orders and saving her friends. A child has to decide whether to hide or become the king he was never supposed to be. And a very broken man has to choose between seeing things through and saving the girl who became his daughter. Let me know if you have more questions, I probably butchered explaining this

[thefugitivesaint]

I’m just going to leave this here. It’s a bit sedate for my tastes given the subject and could use a few tablespoons of anger (that’s the hardcore punk in me demanding more urgency). I dig the snark though. 

[meadow-roses]

this is Tad and I LOVE him a lot 

he belongs to @starrystories2 !!

[starrystories2]

Here’s my Baby Dalow! (note his skin color is actually a lot lighter) (Lenn people are very pale skinned) You might have questions about the other person in the picture..........you might have questions............. :)

[starrystories2]

How're your OC's doing?

how are my ocs doing right now... well...

*inside my brain*

Riema: Let us out, Author! There’s no room to run around in here! This is literally worse than the time when-

Tad: You can’t say that! You’ll give away the story!

Riema: But I’m BORED!

Conas: Yeah! It’s as boring as Yuro up here!

Yuro:(pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs)

Dalow: Give Author a break, you guys. She just started college and being an adult, so she doesn’t have as much time as she did this summer. But she really loves us, so I know she’ll get back to us eventually.

Conas: You’re acting like she actually spent time writing over the summer instead of reading fanfiction.

Ferir: He does have a point you guys.

Conas: YES! I got Ferir on my side! Take that Yuro! 

Yuro: I wasn’t even-

(arguing ensues)

Cluinn(to Tad): (rubbing her temples) Whay has only been gone for five minutes!

Tad: Where did he go again?

Cluinn: To find Relaner. 

Dalow: (shouts above the arguing) Stop it guys, you’re giving Author insecurities about her life choices.

Relaner:(Yells from somewhere in the distance): SHE’S THE ONE WHO’S GIVEN US ALL OF OUR INSECURITIES!!! AND YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT HER!?!?! SHE LITERALLY KILLED-

Everone else: SHHHHH!!!!!

Tad(to Cluinn): Well at least we found Relaner.

*****

yeah...

[starrystories2]

Hey! Your story sounds super cool. Could you tell me about the lore behind it?

...sure

There’s a lot though.....

So get ready...

Remember how I said that I realised that I accidentally copied atla when making my magic system... well, similarly, the very eariliest histories of the world indicate that there were four races original races, each race born with the magical ability to control their respective element. The Sylmuryl (water), the Bolnlow (earth), the Volvalens (fire), and the Kairussians (air). (I’m really sorry atla, I promise the magic system is not the same, and that history plays out a lot differently). 

The earliest records tell of the aftermath of a war: The Sylmuryl, the Bolnlow, and half of the Volvalens under the rule of an evil witch vs. the other half of the Volvalens and the Kairussians under the rule of Himself(the only and perfect God). The resolution of the war is unclear, but it had something to do with Himself’s Banisher, who banished the Black witch from the world. 

After the war, the magic of the losing side dissapeared. In dispair, the Sylmuryl sunk into the sea, and the Bolnlow hulled themselves in the mountains, never to be seen again, and dying off into extinction, leaving behind their halfborn children (because the world was totally cool with interbreading).

The Kairussians decided they didn’t want any more part in the world after that dreadful war and created a land in the sky called Douden, where they took any halfborns with Kairussian blood. (Basically leaing everything in the hands of a divided fire nation... yeah.... that was smart)

So... the Volvalens fought on the wrong side of the war don’t have magic while the survivors from the other side of the war(there’s not many of those left btw) do have magic. (Not to mention all the rest of the orphaned or half-orphaned halfborns running around...fun times) So obiously, the logical thing for the non-magic Volvalens to do is hunt the magic Volvalens into extinction and round up all the halfborns to a) keep the separate based off of their heritage(because volvalens are ocd or something/totally did it to keep them from joinging forces against them) and b) kill off/experiement with any of them that show magic abilities in attempts to regain their own magic.

...okay, so I even made the fire nation jerks in this story... so much for that...

anyway, there is one Volvalen who’s not a jerk(oh my gosh why can’t I stop....I just realised...I PROMISE HE’S NOT ZUKO!)....Kallen, is a Volvalen who is against what his people are doing and(long story short) leads a rebellion of halfborns against his people. Unfortionatly, he thinks that as long as his people are alive, the halfborns will never be safe(not an unfair assessment...except) as a result he genocides his own people (except for himself). 

Let’s keep in mind that the Kairussians can see all of this play out and do LITERALLY NOTHING!

 Kallen meets with representatives from each sect of the halfborns left on earth (for those who are counting [this is based on heritige btw] 3 sects on earth, 3 in Douden) to discuss his what to do now. 

These are the results: While two of the sects want Kallen as their king, the halfborns have no Volvalen blood(only 1 sect) claim that, though they are greatful, have no allegience to the volvalen people (because lack of volvalen heritage,) and want to be left to their own devices. Kallen, not wanting to rule the whole world (not wanting a repeat of what just happened) thinks it’s a good idea and together the council divides the land between that sect and Kallen’s new kingdom (most of the land belonging to Kallen, because there’s just more people, but anyway)

Anyway, Kallen becomes king and (despite totally abliterating his own people and ruling pretty much 2/3 of the world’s popluation) he’s a pretty boss king and everbody loves him. 

He marries his first wife Jadnir and has two sons, Jaden and Karner. After his first wife dies (don’t ask, I don’t know why... yet) he remarries a woman named Gondabal and has two sons with her, Gontner and Lenndabar. 

Kallen decides that instead of giving everything to his oldest, Jaden, he is going to divide his land evenly between all four of his sons, because he’s a good dad and luvs all his bois. (This unconventional passing on of Kallen’s rule inspired a few different ways that the crown would be passed in the four cultures that spawn from Kallen’s sons)(but more on that later)

So everything is fine a dandy for a while. (There are even legends that the four brother’s were so close that they were sad that their kingdom’s were so far away from eachother, so they prayed to Himself to make a way for them to see eachother and Himself decided to give them a meeting room outside of space(but not time) that only the king and his heir could go into, but such a wild story like this has no proof, so it makes a good bedtime story for kids).

But after a while (like a long while... like those 4 bros be dead now) The desert in Gontner(btw the countries are literally the four sons’ names) domain grows into Jaden and Jaden is like, idk wut to do with this, it’s sand. So Jaden decides to sell all the desert to Gontner because most of their land is desert already so they can actually do stuff with that land and Jaden can’t (and the desert got pretty big so Jaden is basically giving away half their kingdom). And EVEN THOUGH IT WAS JADEN’S IDEA TO SELL THE LAND IN THE FIRST PLACE, they feel like they were cheated, so they decided to go invade Lenndabar(and fyi Lenndabar is basically a giant island off the cost of the mainland, and I mean a big island)

So Jaden goes and takes over Lenndabar, forcing it’s people into the mountains in the north. Not long after that, Karner desides to help Lenndabar out and tries to conquer Lenndabar from Jaden to give back to the Lenns.

And at this point, each contry as about 1/2 the land each (if you don’t count the montains in the north) and because neither of them are able to gain more ground, things settle into an uneasy cease fire, that goes on for a while(to the point that both the Jades and the Karns are very comfortable and settled into the land they posess (but that belongs to neither of them in the first place)

Well... that was a lot... 

if any of you are still not drowning in information here are a few details more...

1. At some point during the cease fire a plague hits Lenndabar (I don’t know when exactly, but it’s pretty important to some of the characters’ backstories so I thought I’d mention it. I mean it does make sense though, because there are three different people groups all occupying the same island, so of course disease is going to thrive and some people will have immunites while others don’t)(maybe the plague is the reason the cease fire starts in the first place... idk)

2. Gontner cut off comminications with his brother countries after they got land from Jaden, but before Jaden’s invation of Lenndabar, and hasn’t gotten involved with this war at all.

3.Also... at some point... some of the Kairussian halfborns and the few Kairussians left at this point(they’re also almost extinct, but not yet....I don’t know why yet) returned to the world and most are living in secluded places.

4. There are rummors that right before the Jades invaded Lenndabar that the Lenn King took his heir and threw him down a well before jumping himself. There were no eyewitnesses, but the story is assumed to be true and the whole event is called the Whay, but no one can remember if it was named after the king or his heir. Whay is now used as a strong curse, especially in the slyva towns, and when used as a direct insult to someone can mean that they are a REALLY big jerk and coward or they are REALLY stupid and gullible.

Let me know if you have questions! Thank you guys for giving me a platform to tell my story even though it’s not done yet!

Hope you enjoyed!

[starrystories2]

So here is the digital art piece that @granny-griffin did of Riema/Riul (it also happens to be my profile pic, but I thought people might want to be able to get a better look at it)

Be sure to go check out @granny-griffin ‘s other amazing pieces