Word count: 9,491
It's not even 10:30 and I'm ready to pass out. I just--JUST!--had Starbuck's. Espresso is losing its effect on me! What am I going to do?!
I don't have it in me to pull an all nighter. I wish I did. Especially because I'm really excited, albeit a little daunted, by the next segment! I'm soooo ready to get going. This is where the story really takes off! I can't wait.
But alas... I am exhausted. Starbuck's, you have failed me.
So here are some things you may be wondering about the story now that you've heard a little about the main characters.
The religious system for this universe is a lot like Native American/Greek mythology. There's pretty much a god or goddess for everything. Overseeing it all are the two Mothers: one who encompasses all that is light, the other all that is dark (dark not meaning "evil" in this sense... just balance, yin&yang, etc). In creating their world, they each had their own tidbits they threw in to make things interesting. However, the Hilmeuby are the "chosen" race because they are supposedly the only people created by both Mothers. In other words, they're the perfect "joint effort."
The Hilmeuby obviously multiplied and split into tribes as time went by. Prior to the war, the country they resided in was Morra: a peninsula practically cut in two by a canyon called the Ryari Igrya (translates "valley of the blessed") and bordered to the north by a mountain range. When the war broke out between those who could use magic and believed sternly in the religion that followed the Mothers, and those who decided to use their time creating machines and forgoing nature and piousness, the Hilmeuby sided with the former though chose not to fight. A majority of them were slaughtered in cold blood.
The last remnants of them formed the final tribe of Luani. Luani, of course, had been established prior to this, but it was pretty much the last village standing. After the war was ceased by both sides--basically, they were too evenly matched to succeed in killing each other--they divided the land between the two armies. To the north of the Ryari Igrya, the believers in magic formed Caelestis. To the south, the machinists created Abeo. Luani, rather unfortunately, was already established in the south by the time the land claims were made.
The capitol of Caelestis is Bren. However, we're not that far yet. The capitol of Abeo is, you guessed it! Junction City. Which is exactly where we're at now. Once the war ended, those who run Junction City have made their goal to buy and establish all the land around them. Considering only their followers now live on this side of the valley, the task has been relatively easy. Except for Luani. Hence the initial conflicts this tiny little village must face from the opening of the novel.
Luckily... or rather, very very unluckily, they don't have to deal with it for much longer. Seeing as how those who run J. City get fed up and just decided to decimate the village.
I am a wrathful god :(
So that's the dictionary definition of things I guess. More or less the prologue with a bit of the first few chapters added in. I'm going for full burn tomorrow and Sunday, so we'll see how far I can get. But for now:
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