Internet issues... Grr!!

I have so many ideas for my story and would love to share them with everyone, but i went from sucky internet to almost no internet.. The only way for me to blog is when i'm on campus. I'm trying to fit a time in my busy schedule to head to the library and continue blogging.

Yet Another Character

I've decided to give Zeldar a bigger role in this story than he played in the last. He's a good necromancer, I know you're thinking that is very oxymoronic.. It kind of is, but he is needed and very helpful to he good elves. Because of his knowledge of evil magic, he is better able to aid the good elves in their continuous fight against evil. He's smart and spends a lot of time with ancient elven books. He's trusted by Queen Arosea and Bramdstone, but Amithistella can't find it in her to ever trust a Necromancer. Here is a sneak peak of a scene that Zeldar plays in:

Zeldar had a soft spot for Katrina. He knew that there was good inside her. He could sense the evil with his magic, but he could also sense the good. He knew what it was like to be judged wrongly; Amithistella wouls never let her guard down around him, and he knew that if Katrina stuck around, she would recieve the same treatment.

He finally managed to direct the thorn out of her with magic. As soon as it wa out, innoruuk appeared before them all as a transparent figure. Zeldar readied aball of dark magic between his palms...

Two New Characters

I've finally started formulating more for my story. I've already said a lot about Katrina, but not much about her parents.

Ivy, Katrina's mother, is a mastermind. She's always calculating and coming up with ideas to earn rewards from the Prince of Hate. She is very cocky and self righteous. Ivy won't do anything unless it will aid her in some way. She likes to think of the Prince of Hate as her partner, or employer rather than her master. The Prince of Hate sees this, but lets it go because he knows how easily he can bend her to do his bidding.

Katrina's father, who at this time is nameless (I'm thinking about Melvis, which was a reccomendation from someone else), is cowardly and puny. He's just barely good enough at being a Rogue to keep Innoruuk happy. Eventhough he is a coward, he has a bite to his words (which is probably a defense mechanism that he came up with to deal with all the abuse he recieves from Ivy). He never knows when to shutup and often talks back to Ivy and the Prince of Hate, eventhough he knows the consequeses could be dire.

These two characters will begin to play a decent role in my story as it unfolds. They are Innoruuk's pawns and will help him bring destruction and hate to Norrath. Since the Prince of Hate is a character from Everquest, I'm sticking with their background of his character. He truely believes that the world is a better place when Hate rules in the hearts of everyone. He thinks that those who are kind and loving are ignorant and do not know what they want to achieve in their life and if they do know, then they are too cowardly to go after it. He also believes that Norrath can be destroyed if everyone harbors enough hate.

Update- Vah Shir Story

I said I would keep updating my faithfull readers, and I'm a eoman of my word, so here you go:

I'm exploding with ideas for this story, but I do not have time right now to write and it's almost killing me. I want to relate it back to my other story, The Amulet, (still working on the title for that one-- if you haven't read it yet and would like to, please email me at rphiller@eiu.edu). I'm still working on the ending for "The Amulet" because I can't decide whether I want to end it completely and make this new story (about the Vah Shir) a completely different story, or if I want to give it a cliffhanger ending and keep writing stories. Each will be different, but they will have a continuous plot. If anyone wants to let me know which one they prefer or would like to offer up another idea, feel free to comment; I always welcome comments and constructive criticism.

I could go with either option, however, if I do keep with the same plot as "the Amulet" I've got quite a surprise. I'm struggling to keep it to myself for now because it would really ruin it.

Some ideas that I do have that I can share concerns the trees that make up the Tree City. Throught "The Amulet", I mention that the trees are enchanted and I insinuate that theyso harmonious that they make those around them happy and cheerful. In the vah shir story, I wanted to expand on that and actually show the trees fufilling their role instead of saying that they are capable of such things. When Katrina arrives a the City, the trees actually reach out and grab her. I think I posted that scene already. Im not very experienced with fantasy writing and so far it's still a rough draft, bu I'd like to go back and liven it up some more and give it more detail.

I have plans to add in a scene with Innoruuk and Katrina in conversation. One of the
suggestions that was given to me when I had "the amulet" looked at by my creative writing class was to give innoruuk more character and a reason for being so evil. I think that having a scene where these two characters face each other will not only do just that, but also bring forth Katrina's true nature and her struggle within herself between good and evil.



I would like to add more into this post- i love to share my
Ideas and my writing, but I just don't have time right now.

Point of view

I'm having a bit of a problem with point of view in my story (the vah shir). It comes from an omniscient narrator which is necessary because the reader needs to know things about Katrina that others dont know. I am having a hard time adding in the conflict that Katrina has between good and evil. I know, it should be especially easy with an omniscient narrator, but I just can't figure it out. I'm wondering if it would be too jarring if i switched the narration back and forth between Katrina and this all-knowing narrator. Maybe that would help show how senile she is. I hope I can figure it out soon because this problem is blocking my whole writing process.

the Vah Shir

                The lonely Vah Shir lived in the woods surrounding the Tree City. She, unlike the rest of her distinct race of creatures, lived alone as a hermit. For her own reasons she disowned her family and resided by herself in a cottage away from everyone else. She stayed close enough to the Elves to keep an eye on what was going on, but far enough away so as not to get involved in their affairs. She was aware of the recent battle with Innoruuk and his defeat. She was aware of the strange fires, conjured by Innoruuk’s magicians, which were somehow able to burn down parts of the Tree City. She watched as balls of fire were thrown at all parts of the City, yet only some burned. She assumed that is why the good Elves were frantically looking for willow wisps, but she wasn’t exactly sure.  

She was good at watching people and remaining hidden from the world. An extremely talented Rogue could not stay as hidden as she could: this Vah Shir was amongst the top of the class of Rogues, and only a few people knew it. Her family, for one, knew and also the loathing Prince of Innoruuk. How odd, it must seem, for a Vah Shir to follow such evil ways, to live such an evil lifestyle. Vah Shirs are gentle, kind creatures. The race of Vah Shir lives on the moon and receives their harmonious nature from their great ancestor, Luclin, Goddess of the moon. While Vah Shir remain agnostic, and do not practice idolizing Luclin, they cannot hide genetics and retain the gentile nature which the moon bears upon them. Something unnervingly evil, however, was wrong with this Vah Shir.

Her whole family served Innoruuk for many generations. He trained every member as a rogue, gave them a few magical capabilities and in return, they served him. They hid under his shadow and greedily gave him what information he wanted. They remained in the city of Shar Vahl as good natured Vah Shir, no one found them out for a long time. Katrina ‘s parents were unable to bear children, but the servitude to Innoruuk must remain throughout each generation. The Prince took this opportunity to “help” out the couple and create for himself the most evil, loathing, creature in all of Norrath. Innoruuk casted a spell over the female Vah Shir and thus she was able to bear one child.                

 Luclin, goddess of the Moon was watching that night; saddened by the evil that was lurking about within her own race of people, and the monstrosity that Innoruuk was creating, Luclin dropped one lonely tear that made its way into this Vah Shir’s heart as she lay in the womb. Innoruuk’s powerful magic added with the tear of a mighty Goddess all within one creature: This Vah Shir was destined for evil and greatness all at once.

A New Character

This post references my last post about the rose.

It's crazy how I slowed down on my writing about Amithistella, I just didn't know what to write, and then I'm flipping through an old notebook of stuff that I wrote years ago and find a three sentence 'blurb' about a rose. Somehow from there, I come up with a whole new character for my story... and two hand written pages of just ideas for plot.

I'd like to introduce the Vah Shir.(For those of you who don't know, a vah shir is a cat that can stand up right, they reside on the moon in a city called Shar Vahl.) I haven't come up with a name yet, or even the gender for this character so I will refer to it simply as the Vah Shir or "it".  Generally a Vah Shir is a gentle creature, kind hearted, they rely heavily on community members.

Also I cannot find a class for this character. I've thought about Druid, with some things that I already have in mind, it would work out well but my story already as a lot of focus on the druid and I would like to bring in another class. Vah Shirs are usually beastlords, and I absolutely love beastlords, but they are not usually evil characters. An Assasign or rogue would be fitting to the evil nature of this character, but then I'd have to figure out how this character would become a rogue.. and how the evil nature would have been in "it's" family for centuries because the main point of this character is that "it" is fighting "its" own battle between good and evil.

I havn't worked out too many of the details but over all, the Vah Shir character has been exciled from the Shar Vahl along with her family for commiting some kind of treason. This specific character has an evil taint marked on her soul, but no longer wishes to follow the evil ways of her family. After being exiled, "it" runs away and becomes a hermit, living in the cottage in the forest outside of the Elven Tree City. "It" tries to stay away from people because"its" bloodlust is uncontrollable; however, after the incident with the rose, a trip to the Elven City to speak with the Queen is necessary.

Will this character be able to control the evil inside "it" or will "it" savagely kill the Elves and be forever lost to "its" own evil ways.....

stay tuned to find out more :-D

A beautiful rose

I just wanted to touch that beautiful rose and envelop my life in all of its awe. It was as if the rose was calling out to me. I reached out to grasp the beauty and its protective thorn bit me, staining that beautiful rose with my ugly blood. My icy soul turned that red rose blue and somehow i knew that the world would never be the same.

I finoshed foraging the root i needed for my stew and quickly headed for the cottage. The throbbing in my hand sent an alarming pang into the pit of my stomach. I knew something was wrong and i knew it had something to do with that one lonely rose.