I have come to the conclusion that talking about my book in one big giant post would be way too disorganized, so i'm talking about it in pieces.
Fair warning: this idea is very new, and so not 100% developed, so things may change and grow/not make total sense yet.
The Basic Premise/World: Human Realm and Fey Realm! The Fey don't rule the natural forces, they ARE the natural forces. Every fairy is born with a specific set of powers and a specific job to do to make the natural world happen. The growth of plants, the wind in the air, the water in river and oceans, the changing of seasons, everything. While those things would still exist without the Fey, the fey are what gives the world rhyme and reason and rules. There are six fey Courts in total, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Night, and Day, and they all have different jobs to do to keep the world in balance.
However, there used to be a seventh. The Court of Magic. Now this court is long gone and disappeared, having been destroyed eons ago by the other courts for breaking the rule of the Council, for giving humans magic.
Now, here's the thing about magic and the Fey. What you're born with is what you get. You are born with a specific set of powers, big or small, and that is all you will ever get for your entire life. You can never branch out, never learn more, never grow past what you are born with. But humans? Or more specifically, Witches? They can learn any kind of magic through the use of spells. They aren't bound by the harsh rules and laws of the Fey, they can do anything, should they have the time and willpower to learn. And this makes them obscenely dangerous. So for creating these people, the Court of Magic was destroyed, what ever remnants of them and their people either being absorbed into the other courts, or left to rot.
But this coup came at a heavy cost. Loosing one court, and a court so specific, threw the entire world out of balance, and no fey alive able to fix it. The human realm fell to ruin. Massive swathes of land left as desolate grey wastelands, as if the life was sucked out of the very earth. Other areas are mangled by cancerous overgrowth and ravaged by madness. The Fey went mostly unbothered, as it wasn't their realm being wasted, no skin off their teeth. So they left it as it was, did their jobs where they could, and let the humans deal with the mess. That was, until recently. The rot and the madness has started to seep into their own realm. It will continue to grow and grow and take and take until there's nothing left, fey or human. And there is no one left alive who can fix it. No one but a witch.
I'll be making several other posts explaining the main characters, the magic system (which i am VERY proud of), fey courts, more details on the magic rot, the gods, and anything else I see fit. I do plan for this to have a fair bit of romance so look out for that ;). I will also make a tag specific for this story once I finally come up with a name (which i am the worst at)
please feel free to tell me any thought/questions you may have on this! i am an attention whore and would love to talk about this forever
Update: We have a title!!! Welcome to "Rune Rot"!!! (don't blame me if it changes) Double update: It's "The Road Witch" now. My bad guys!
