Story:Chapter0

Concept: To introduce two of the main characters in a way to show how they live before the story starts. Also to give the reader knowledge of the characters before they show up in the main story line.

Overview: There will be two main parts of the chapter. Part one will start off with a convoy traveling to the capital city. The second part will be in a small secluded town right before it is attacked.

Part 1

Concept: To give the readers a bias on one of the main characters. The goal is to make the audience hate / despise the character based on her actions. The reasoning behind this will show up later on as the readers learn of her true past and her intentions. The end state is to make the readers misjudge the character and later feel sorry for her (in part because they misjudged her).

Overview: The section will start off with several pages highlighting the convoy. The idea is to make the readers relate to the people on the convoy, in many ways I want them to think that the story is about them. After that I plan on introducing first character. Members of the convoy will notice her and instantly have a negative reaction based on the rumors of who she is. She pays little to no attention to their protests and continues to watch them from a distance. This part will end as the convoy is being raided the travelers killed or captured. She will be watching the whole time but taking little interest in helping save people. In the end she will just walk away from the scene.

Part 2

Concept: To introduce one of the other main characters and show her daily life. The goal is to have the audience relate to her. The beginning will start off with the daily life and in the end show a great loss that will shape her future and lay the ground work for the start of the story.

Overview: This section will start off with several pages highlighting life in a small rural town and the life of the second character. Basically I want to convey that although she lives a happy life it is not easy. Also I want to show that although she has lived a hard life she has been sheltered from the blunt of the war and compared to her true destiny has not really achieved anything. As the story goes on she will notice a new traveler in town. The traveler will not really pay much attention to most of the people around her, but will take some interest in her (although she will not show it too much). The traveler will be the same character as in the first section, so the audience will already have a negative reaction to this. The section will end as the city is raided and many people are killed. Of the people killed will be the second characters grandmother (only known living relative). While this is happening the first character will watch from a distance but will be mainly focusing on the second character. The chapter will end as the second character is trapped and facing certain doom, the last thing she sees is a flash behind her pursuers and screams of pain as she blacks out.

Overview of the characters

Character 1: Although nobody knows her real name she is known to most people as the Princess of Suffering. The stigma about her is that when she shows up that shortly thereafter people will die. Some see her as the harbinger of suffering and others see her as the actual cause. Nobody decides to look deeper in to who she really is. The whole of her past is one of much suffering and death, much of which is caused by her. Although her motives are not clear one thing is, when she shows up people will die. She is seen wearing a full cloak that hides most of her body. Little is known about her powers other then the fact that many have tried to killer and have all ended up dead.

Additional knowledge of the character: Although this is not something that will be noticed for a long time in the story she is the main character of the second story arc. That being said she is well over 2000 years old but looks barely over 20. The reason for the lack of ageing and how she turned out the way she did will be explained in the second arc. But basically she feels charged to watch events in history and seeks out the one who will not only end the war but may also hold the keys to her personal salvation. She strongly believes in not helping those that she sees, this is mainly because the last time that she tried to help caused the destruction of her entire race (partly by her own hands).

Side information: She is very strong, when compared to other people on the planet she is by far the strongest. Growing up she was the child prodigy that brought about magical masks to enhance the powers of her people. The powers where later corrupted by her brother and eventually lead to the demise of her people. Although she rarely uses magic she has a very strong affinity towards enhancement magic. Many see her as being unintelligent, but that is just a farce that she puts on to keep people away from her.

Character 2: She is known as being the granddaughter of the town healer. Her whole life has been based on the knowledge of the fact that she will grow up to be the town healer. She knows nothing about her parents and is only told that they died around the time she was born. She has strong magical powers but only really knows how to use them to heal people. On her grandmothers deathbed she is told that her parents are alive and are in the capital city. That single event changes her whole outlook on life.

Additional knowledge of the character: Although this will not be stated for awhile in the main arc, she is the only child of the queen of the Kitsune’s (fox people). The Kitsune’s are the most powerful country on the planet and are seen as the rulers of all the other countries. She was sent away as a child after her father journeyed to speak with the king of the dragons to try and find a way to end the war. The Dragon king told him that he would have to send his daughter away to keep her safe and pave the way for the one who would be able to end the war. The Dragon king then sacrificed his life to ensure that everything would go as planned.

Side information: Although she appears to be a normal Kitsune she is really a Kyubi. The magic of the Kyubi is passed down from mother to daughter. The one with the power is the automatic heir to her people. The queen always has only one child, and it is always a girl. She has a very strong affinity towards all forms of magic, although growing up all she has learned is healing magic’s. When forced in to a corner she is able to call upon some of her Kyubi powers, but most of the time they are locked away.

Other facts

There are actually 4 worlds in this story. The first world is now known as earth, it is the home of what is known as the ancients. Ancient humans had strong magical powers that where second only to the powers of the dragons themselves. Ancient man created the sub species to enhance their physical powers; this was achieved by weakening the overall magical powers of the species. The lust for power eventually created a power struggle that threatened to exterminate all life on earth. It was decided by the Ancients and Dragons that all magic must be removed from Earth. This would have meant the destruction of all the sub species, so instead a second Earth was created as a new home for those who wanted to keep their magic. Those who wanted to stay had their magic locked behind what is known as the ancestry gate. It is basically a lock that is placed on the source of all magic inside a person. This lock is passed down to their children there by ceasing all access to magic. The story of the struggles on the new world will be explained in the second arc. The second world is the one that was created for all of those who wanted to keep their magic. The third world was created for the Dragons who no longer wanted to be responsible for those who had magic. The fourth world was created after endless wars threatened to kill everyone on the second planet. But as time went on the wars started up again. The process that was used to create the subspecies drastically affected the magic powers of each species. The process seemed to favor females of each species there for making them stronger, both physically and magically, then their male counterparts. That being said it did not take long for females to take over most of the roles of powers on the second world. This later caused a struggle between who should be in charge of each society, and later caused the third and fourth worlds to be created.