First Trilogy Novel 1
From Fantasy Novel
Okay - here is my collection of thoughts about this story.
- Opens with character introduction for Fisc... it is late, long day, whatever. He is going to be going to bed, his father is acting strangely. As he goes to sleep for the night the chapter closes
- The first words of the next chapter are, "...Fisc..." Basically mirror the opening of a Link to the Past here. A telepathic message is being sent to Fisc... desperate call for help. No name, but he knows it is a girl... it is raining heavily outside. He gets out of bed and comes to realize that his father is not there any longer. He feels these things must be related, grabs a cheap sword from the home (maybe behind a herald or shield or something)... next to useless
- Goes to the castle - meets someone who is mysterious, who basically kicks the shit out of Fisc, but he "somehow" (how is unimportant) manages to get the girl and escape.
- Returns to his village the next morning to find many buildings burned/broken, and troops occupying the village.
Novel Background / Pre-story
The realm of Azland and a host of others had engaged in a massive war with the other nations of humanity roughly 30 years before the setting of the novel. The massive war was precipitated by the assassination of the heir to the throne of Valencia by an Azland farmer, a man making a political statement regarding the oppression of
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo. Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the South Slavs and independence from Austria-Hungary. The assassination in Sarajevo set into motion a series of fast-moving events that eventually escalated into a full-scale war. Austria-Hungary demanded action by Serbia to punish those responsible, and when Austria-Hungary deemed Serbia had not complied, declared war. Major European powers were at war within a matter of weeks because of overlapping agreements for collective defense and the complex nature of international alliances.
introduction
Rising action
complication
climax
Denouement
Solid Ideas for this book
- The Current will be used in this novel, but it will be relatively un-noticed, with things just happening. Never mentioned by name. Perhaps users of the current will be present, even active, but its not in the open yet.
- There will be prophecies/visions - but they will happen in dreams, never be stated to be prophecies, but only foreshadow things to come. I do not want to turn this into some lame ass "you're the one the prophecy spoke up" crap. This will also serve to introduce the dream world, but again, its nature or being anything more than a dream - unknown in this book.
- A world war breaks out - WWII style (re-emergence of an empire that used to be great, was beaten back 25 years before in a global conflict, and was RUINED, then through racial purity arguments, nationalism, and all the other Hitler-ish stuff)
- The dictator of note is revealed to be a shape shifter late in the book, introducing that species and providing the reasoning behind his madness.
- The dictators stated goal is to reunite the world, pronounce the superiority of his race, and (here's the most important part) re-establish the "High King of Men" which has not been seen since the races of men were last one... in other words millennia ago.
EXPLORATION OF IDEAS
Open it with a great injured warrior... like in GOBOTS, or like Optimus Prime being wounded. Reader has never seen how incredible the character is in battle/war/etc... but gets the character set up as great by how they talk about him. Maybe he was betrayed or something, but the point is the warrior is inflated and hyped by those around him, while he does nothing. That way, when he heals he's already an established character.
Invasion by the warrior race to human lands, under the control of the shape shifters. Do not talk about the control being by the shape shifters yet.
