For the WIP ask game: I'd love it if you shared more about 'Illness from Within' (I don't know whether it's fic or original, but the title intrigued me). Also, if you're up for it, choose whatever other WIP you'd most like to talk about and share something about that one too?
Oh boy! This is going to be tough to decide about which other WIP I'm going to talk about (I will make a seperate post for that and tag you).
But before that, we have the star of this ask: Illness from Within! *loud applause*
I actually already talked about this WIP once before on my block. It is this post! (aaand I also shared some older art for it as well.) But I will repeat what I have said in the first post here again.
Illness from Within is my original book and is sort of high fantasy. I have been writing it since 2021 and have been stuck in Chapter 6 for a year now (and have been side tracked by my fanfics and other book ideas lol).
This story takes place in a different world, where the flora and fauna is giant. In the middle of a vast forest is a tiny city surrounded by huge walls to protect it from the forest. This city is the only one for miles on this land mass and is ruled by a powerful and wise Queen, Freya. Once this kingdom was bigger, but a civial war had devided it's people thousends of years ago. Thus this tiny kingdom was left. The other half retreated to the other end of the continent but nobody really knows what they are doing but they are rumoured to be barbarians now.
Our three protagonists are the head of the guards of this kingdom, Aage, the old royal doctor and merchant, Samir, and Levin, a sickly young man who is being sponsored by Aage and treated by Samir.
The story takes them outside their kingdom's walls to find a cure as Samir's resources inside are getting exhausted. He makes a medicine so that Levin can travel and the three of them have a journey and meet the gods. The first one is the god of life, Celeste, who they ask to heal the youngest but even though they can't take something away after it came to life. Thus they venture on to find the other god.
The three then get caught up between a war that broke out between the kingdom and the "barbarians" due to there being a moule in the kingdoms ranks. Our three protagonists accidentally get swallowed by the earth with the enemy and meet the god of death, Amon. They manage to leave (not before asking death to heal Levin, but he must die for that to happen) and the war stops as the enemy's leader stays in the realm of death as punishment. The leader wanted to bring ruin to the kingdom and take over the land mass. He wanted to spare no one.
In the end, the medicine is actually enough for Levin to live quite a normal life. Samir does not acceptedthis out come and tries to find a cure for the rest of his life. He dies without achieving it. Levin is the one telling this story when he is an old man and living to the age of 80. He himself became a doctor in the end.
So, yeah! That was it. I actually just put the entire plot here but I just really really love these little guys and the themes. And I am so proud about the ending - that sometimes you have to accept that you have tried your best but couldn't fix every problem.
I will try to decide on another WIP to talk about (or even two!).
