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Fairion's Novel
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Well, if this were a dream... sometimes in dreams, things are backwards. Think of a name that works both forwards and backwards, and name boy selves accordingly.
Posted By:  Aldan Jan 13, 2005 - 07:37 pm |       | Kim and Mik: two easy ones to use.
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 16, 2005 - 08:17 am | | Mud and Dum??
Alexander and Rednaxela. LOL turned out better then I thought!
Aldan-Nadla
Magus-Sugam
BenJaru-UraJneb
Fairion-Noiriaf
Intersing idea...
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 16, 2005 - 08:21 am | | Speaking of writing things backwords, I thought it would be fun to write a book report backwords once-after that I didn't think it would be fun any more. *Teacher running after me with long stick*
*SMACK SMACK SMACK*
*Scribble, scribble = F*
Fairion
| Posted By: Magus Jan 16, 2005 - 09:17 am | | 
That's an interesting concept, but it might not work in my case. In the first book he goes to sleep and thinks he wakes up from it, but he awakes in his dream. He then grows up on the streets as a thief and sellsword. And he changes his name during those years between the prologue, where he falls asleep with his younger sister under the skeleton of a long-dead dragon, and the first chapter, when you see him all those years later, but still part of a dream.
Does anybody have any ideas on names? This goes for the real guy, the dream guy and his sister as well. What names I do have fr them I am very dissatisfied with.
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 19, 2005 - 01:55 pm | | Why don't ya post what you have... or at least what the characters are like... I think it would be easier for me to make a name if I knew the sort of person that would be wearing it. But I will try anyway.
*goes off to surf tons of name generators on such for good ideas*
In a while crocadile....
Fairion
| Posted By: Magus Jan 19, 2005 - 03:05 pm | | I already did, but a while ago. I'll go and copy/paste what I did post up here for the story.
| Posted By: Magus Jan 19, 2005 - 03:32 pm | | BAH! I found it, but it's outdated and sorely lacking in some areas. I'll just do it from scratch.
A young boy (name pending) lives in a village along the path of a river. He enjoys playing with his younger sister (name also pending) in the tall grasses on the outskirts of the town.
One day they are, as usual, playing in the fields. They grow tired playing in the warm sun and lie down together underneath the gigantic skeleton of an ancient dragon. Several millenia prior the Dragon gave his life to defend the village from his vilainous father. The children do not fear the long dead beast and feel comforted by his presence. Slowly they both drift off to sleep.
The boy awakes. It is night and his sister is nowhere to be found. He searches high and low for her but cannot find her. Thinking that she left for the village and home he makes for it, only to be turned away by the gate warden.
Nobody in town knows of his father or his mother, who died giving birth to his sister. They don't know of him. It is as if he never existed at all.
And so he grows up this way, as an orphan to parents that apparently never existed. He becomes skilled with a blade and makes a living as a thief and sellsword, along with another orphan just like him with similer skills.
One day a mage enters the capital city of the nation where the boy lives, as he has also moved to the capital city himself. The mage attacks an ancient-looking wealthy merchant that the to boys, now men, have been hired to protect. They stop this magical assassin from completing his work and begin to tie him up and turn over to the authorities.
The mage attempts to break free but find that he cannot. In desperation he shouts at the boy that he knows of him, of what happened to his family. He claims that if he is allowed to go free that he will lead him to his sister.
This hits a chord with the man and he agrees, for he so desperately wants to see her again. He knows that the mage will keep his word for he has recognized that he is not human.
The mage is the last of his kind, the only remaining member of a magically created species. They were made by powerful mages to act as vassels, servents but, most of all, as slaves. They can only speak truths and are, quite literaly, bound to their word. Once they say that they will do something they cannot do anything but complete it. And when one of them dies their powers and knowledge are passed on to all of that species. So, insidently, this individual has all of the power of every one of his ancestors coupled with his own.
But this has "my-word-is-my-bond" and "I-cannot-tell-a-lie" mentality has caused him to be an extremely crafty and shrewed person. He has learned, as a matter of survival, never to do any more or say anything then what he had to and has become an expert of telling half-truths. All of this leads to a great deal of tension between the three of them.
They leave to where the mage told them the sister is being held, a great tower to the east. The journy is plagued by mistrust and dangers, but eventually the tower is reached.
The tower itself is heavily guarded. There are magical guardians at the entrence taht must be defeated. And, once inside, the mages bond to take them to where the sister is has been completed and he turns on the two companions.
They do battle in the main room of the tower, right inside of the entrance. All throughout the battle the one man hears a strange song and sound in the distance. But, more then that, he hears the calls of his sister become more and more powerful.
The friend dies. But the man avenges his death by killing the mage. Now the song is unbearable and he runs up the spiraling staircase that starts at one side of the round room and spirals all the way around it. He climbs higher and higher, higher then he ever thought he could possibly climb, and yet it goes further.
Soon he nears the top. A door is ajar and blindingly brilliant light pours through the entrance, so bright that he cannot see what is beyond he. He runs further and breaches the gap, running through the doorway.
The man awakes, still a boy. It is the same day, the very same afternoon, he took his nap. He never awaoke at all before. He only slumber beneath the dragon.
| Posted By: Magus Jan 19, 2005 - 05:11 pm | | I was thinking that Rowan was a good name for him. What do you all think?
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 20, 2005 - 06:51 am | | ...and Patent for her, since she's pending...
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 20, 2005 - 08:36 am | | lol Aldan
Hmmm, Rowen... sounds pretty good, but you might want to try coming up with somthing originaler sounding. It is up to you, I really like the name, just don't really like how many times I have seen it...
For her, how about... Telaria? no, sounds to much like a disease... I am using one in my story, for, believe it or not, the the heros sister, Cera.
I think it would go well with what you have, you can go ahead and use it if you want.
When you get this story done I would REALLY like to read it!!
Fairion
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 20, 2005 - 08:44 am | | I really tangeled up my word didn't I?
I used Cera as the name of the hero's sister. I think it would work for your story too.
There.
Try that.
Fairion
| Posted By: Magus Jan 20, 2005 - 12:04 pm | | That could actually work. It sounds kind of like the name of the river the town is set by, The Ceri River. I never really heard of the name Rowan before. I only thought it cool and used it as Cheesor the Mad's "child", actually a roasted chicken she thinks is an orphaned child. I thought it would be a cool name for the boy.
Aldan... jokes that my father would envy...
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 20, 2005 - 02:26 pm | | I have the hero's siblings, a set of twins named Cerin and Cera, and I am wondering if they sound to much alike. I am having Cerin get killed in the first book.
Fairion
| Posted By: Magus Jan 20, 2005 - 04:24 pm | | My origional idea was to have the brother and sister kind of the same way, similer yet different names.
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 20, 2005 - 05:28 pm | | sounds good to me! are they, by any chance, twins?
I have twins in my book too, and their names are suspiciously close to yours BenJaru: Seru and Selyn. That's probably where the similarity ends.
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 20, 2005 - 10:50 pm | | One thing you may consider with twins is to use names that start differently from each other, but END in the same sound. For example, my younger twin sisters are named Ola (ohlah) and Nela (neelah)... and I mean my RL sisters...
| Posted By: BenJaru Jan 21, 2005 - 04:37 am | | Good idea Aldan! Ola and Nela... Very cool names!
LOL Gnollie, I have not read anything of yours yet, don't even know if you have anything posted that I could read!
My favorite of the two is Cera, so I will probably do somthing about Cerin.
Any good ideas that end in "a"??
lol I forgot to say that Cerin is a boy, a fact that I HOPE is self evident!
That might not work, I mean having a boy name end in "a" I geuss I will go look through the "Baby Name Book" and see what I can find.
Fairion
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 21, 2005 - 06:58 am | | I understood that. The names were given simply as examples. If you use the gender neutral 'e' as an ending, that may work for the concept... for whichever names you come up with.
In the culture that Seru an Selyn belong to, naming is a big deal. There is a list of canonical names guarded in the capital city, and the young are assigned these names when they hatch (not human twins, by the way). Seru and Selyn both derive from the root name Syra. Twins are always named with the same root. Every pair also consists of a brother and a sister.
The reason twins are special to this culture is not the same as with humans. For them it is common to have three, four, or even five eggs in a clutch, and twins only come about twice a century. Twins also have an innate understanding of each other that extends beyond that of human twins. They share the same scent, which confuses enemies, and they can "feel" each other's minds due to a magnetic sensory organ (like birds). Usually this is only used for navigation, and members of the species cannot sense one another, for twins however, their "frequency" is the same.
BenJaru, I've posted a few things in the showcase, but not really anything impressive.
I have a couple excerpts from my book, "Orion's Key."
I posted a short short story called "The Oracle Sat in the Dark." If you go to read that one, make sure you scroll down to the revised version. It's not my usual writing style, but I kind of liked it.
My longest work posted on here is the novellette "Karakrang's Toe." If you ever have the time, I'd appreciate critique on it.
"Karakrang's Toe" is actually an expansion on one of the events discussed by characters in my novel. It doesn't give away too much about the backstory in my novel, it just explores one of the pieces of history leading up to the story of Orion's Key.
| Posted By: Magus Jan 21, 2005 - 12:37 pm | | That sounds pretty cool, Gnollslayer. And it's posted here? I'll have to go and look around for it.
Hmmmm... After reading some of the backposts in Lycoria I thought that Rowan sounds rather similer to Rowena. Maybe I could have that as the sister's name? But I'm not sure how SirJill would like me taking two of her names (I used Digger in a short story of mine, coincidentally and not purposefully). But I think it wouldn likely fit the best.
Oh, by the way, they aren't twins. The brother is a few years older then the sister is. But they are very close.
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