Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

I've been thinking that I want to revise my whole idea about Kyrielle-land.



How it originally was:

There
were two races/species of people, the Kaval - the ruling class, warrior
race, who was asked to come in and protect the other race during some
period long long ago - and Kyrielle's people, who have no name yet, who
are the ineffectual upperclass gentry, the
magic-users who needed the protection in the first place. They speak
two different languages, the extent of which I know is that Kaval has
lots more v's in it. *cough*

As a society together they all live in a huge underground kingdom type place -

Random aside:

I
used to call my Sea Elf island (Erastus) the Erastian Empire, but...
d00d, it's NOT an empire. It's only one island, and a fairly
pacifistic, isolationist one at that.

/random aside

-
kind of like Tolkien dwarven halls were supposed to have been when they
weren't overrun by Terrifying Things. Spacious and huge and cut right
out of the rock, with cathedrals and things inside stone domes under
the ground. They also had land above the ground, where they would farm
and have vinyards, horses, things like that... the Kaval were a
horse-warrior people (Rohirrim, anyone?).

New ideas:

The
races would be the same and their relationship would be the same, but
they would have a common language that grew out of a pidgin between the
two original languages. The only places you could see the old languages
would be in proper nouns, rituals, old cultural things, et cetera. They
also wouldn't live underground, but sort of carved into the side of a
mountain, so that halls would go back deep into the rock and there
could be caverns and things like I wanted before, but a lot of the
city/ies could be open to the sunlight. They would overlook the
farmlands and vinyards and the places where the Kaval would do horsey
stuff. They maybe could have some cool trees and then it would moosh
with my Driiaen things I'd always been tryin to do but burnt out on and
had no interst in the actual characters.


Character concept AND how I write my eights. It's been a morning of radical change!

(Rachel supports my regime shift and my paradigm change ;) )

I just remembered a dream I had, and I wanted to write it down before I
forgot it. So I thought I'd do it here. My mum's going to need the
computer in a minute.

I dreamed in was in this place, it may have been Austria or somewhere in
Eastern Europe or not even on this planet for all I know, but it was
down in a valley surrounded by sloping hills. The house I was in was
down at the bottom, and it was kind of flattish with a sloping peaked
roof and I think it had a porch running around the entire thing.
Anyway, the grass in the valley (it was all grass, no rocks or
anything) was absolutely SCREAMING vibrant green. And it was darkish
green, not like fluorescent green... but so damn green. And there was a
storm coming. Little patches of grass were moving, like they do in the
wind, little roundish spots that were alive and writhing. All around
the tops of the hills around the valley I could see blue sky, light
blue then going darker as it went up, but there wasn't much of it (only
about an inch and a half if I held my fingers up in front of my face)
because there was this cloud cover. The cloud cover was black. It
wasn't dark grey like clouds in storms are... it was roiling black,
black almost tinged with grey so you could see how it was textured, and
it was moving very very fast because there were rips in it every so
often and bright golden sunlight would dash across the grass. They
looked like shapes swimming underwater, only the grass was green and
they were yellow and not shaped like fish... But they were all over the
place, because the clouds were moving so fast. And I was out in the
middle of it, for some reason...

Gotta do a storm like that in Wings.