Wow! We have 100 posts! Let's celebrate! I'll celebrate by trying to put up a photo of a bunch of puppies that fell asleep on my lap. You'll know if it works if you see a really cute picture under this. And no, the puppies aren't mine, sadly. But I want them! We'll see if I can use facebook photos on my blog...
Damn. It doesn't work. Stupid pictures.
~*~
Sunday, April 13, 2008
wyvern pictures
So, as you probably noticed, at the side and bottom of the page, I added a couple wyvern pictures. I thought I'd try somethng new and draw them with all straight lines. Ellen, of course, helped me put them up. But the black onbe is upside down. It's supposed to be diving downwards, not up... How do we fix that?
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Shalia, Arith, and Saleera
Yep, so this is Shalia. As a baby, anyway. She's quite a bit longer and thinner as an adult. You see her pouncing here. There's one scene where she decides to leap onto Arith's head, just to bug him, so you can pretend that's where this sketch came from-when she's preparing to pounce. Eventually I'll try to put up my picture of her as an adult, whenever I can use someone else's computer (like Ellen's).
I can't wait to see your maps, Ellen! Saturday, maybe? You don't have to worry too much about Wiverna's shape, since it is landlocked. But I bet it'll look great anyway. And I wanna see what you made the new continents look like!
I'm trying to remember if I put up a summary of the story Ellen and I are writing together... I don't think I did, so I'll do that. It doesn't have a title yet. We'll have to think of one eventually.
So, my character is a boy named Arith (you may have gathered that from earlier posts) and Ellen's is a girl called Saleera (again, mentioned in earlier posts). They live on the planet Soreina. On this planet, most people are able to read the thoughts of animals using the language of thoughts. So they can communicate with any animal without using words. I like making people understand animals. It's sort of a recurring theme in some of my stories. I've used it before, and I know I'll use it again. Either way, Arith and Saleera's country is Draykia. Hopefully Ellen will put up her beautiful map of Draykia. She does maps, I make up names (I made up most of them in this book. But Ellen made up Milon and Nexsidus. Any more?) In this country, the right of passage into adulthood is for a boy or girl, usually about 16 years old, to bond with an animal, which is known as their familiar. People of the lower classes generally only get normal creatures like cats or ferrets. People of the middle class get magical creatures like hippogriffs or phoenixes. And those in the highest rank of society get dragons. There are a few exceptions. For example, if a low-class boy or girl goes out into the wild and gets a dragon egg, they can have a dragon as their familiar.
Arith and Saleera come from different villages. Arith, who lives in Shalen, is overshadowed by his older brother, Bram, who seems to be better at everything than Arith. Arith loves his brother, but wants to show his father that he's just as good as Bram, so he decides to get ahold of a dragon egg (I stole the name Bram from a book called Modoc. It's the most fantastic true story I've ever read, and I highly recommend it. I'll have to start book reviews eventually...). Saleera, who comes from the desert town Garayt, is considered the village freak. And she too wants to prove herself by getting a dragon. But they don't want just any dragon. They want an imperial dragon-the dragons with the strongest psychic talent apart from sun dragons. But there's so few of them left on Soreina that their entire population is in the palace of Tarule. And even the eggs are locked safely away in a chamber. They set out to get their eggs, and bump into each other. Realizing they have the same goal, they team up. Arith has his mother's hippogriff, Syrinx, and she carries them on their way. A syrinx is actually an ancient kind of flute, (pronounced Seer-inx) and it's the name of a song that is quite popular among flutists, but I haven't played it yet. I'll have to ask for a copy of the music from my flute teacher... But that's where Syrinx got her name. And Saleera has a pet (not a familiar, just a pet) ferret named Kailo. He's pretty funny.
So, they break into the palace and manage to steal two imperial dragon eggs. They barely escape, but when they head back to their homes, they find that King and Queen Raeton, of Tarule, have sent their armies out to get rid of the towns that oppose them-which includes both Arith and Saleera's homes. So they both find themselves homeless with their dragon eggs, a hippogriff, and a ferret who's always hungry. No one they know is alive anymore.
Then Arith's egg hatches. Inside is a little sky blue dragon with patches of white. She looks quite like the sky. Her name is Shalia. It took me forever to find a good name for her. I really liked Kaila, but that was way to close to Kailo, the ferret. But now we have a lot of characters beginning with the letter "s"-Saleera, Syrinx, and Shalia.
Arith, Saleera, Syrinx, Kailo, and Shalia meet up with a caravan of survivors from the king and queen's attacks on towns. They join up with the caravan of refugees, and start to travel around to look for other survivors. That same day, Saleera's egg hatches into a little dragon. His name is Zuben. He has a bit of an attitude, unlike the exuberant Shalia. Zuben actually means "claw." I was looking for good names for him, and since he's black with white speckles (like the night sky) I started looking for astranomy terms. I found Zuben. In the constellation scorpio, Zuben was used in the phrase "the upper claw of the scorpion," or something like that. Now you know.
So right now, that's about as far as we are. THe caravan is currently stopped at a surviving town. We still don't know exactly where we're headed with this, but once we get a little more done, I'll update again.
I can't wait to see your maps, Ellen! Saturday, maybe? You don't have to worry too much about Wiverna's shape, since it is landlocked. But I bet it'll look great anyway. And I wanna see what you made the new continents look like!
I'm trying to remember if I put up a summary of the story Ellen and I are writing together... I don't think I did, so I'll do that. It doesn't have a title yet. We'll have to think of one eventually.
So, my character is a boy named Arith (you may have gathered that from earlier posts) and Ellen's is a girl called Saleera (again, mentioned in earlier posts). They live on the planet Soreina. On this planet, most people are able to read the thoughts of animals using the language of thoughts. So they can communicate with any animal without using words. I like making people understand animals. It's sort of a recurring theme in some of my stories. I've used it before, and I know I'll use it again. Either way, Arith and Saleera's country is Draykia. Hopefully Ellen will put up her beautiful map of Draykia. She does maps, I make up names (I made up most of them in this book. But Ellen made up Milon and Nexsidus. Any more?) In this country, the right of passage into adulthood is for a boy or girl, usually about 16 years old, to bond with an animal, which is known as their familiar. People of the lower classes generally only get normal creatures like cats or ferrets. People of the middle class get magical creatures like hippogriffs or phoenixes. And those in the highest rank of society get dragons. There are a few exceptions. For example, if a low-class boy or girl goes out into the wild and gets a dragon egg, they can have a dragon as their familiar.
Arith and Saleera come from different villages. Arith, who lives in Shalen, is overshadowed by his older brother, Bram, who seems to be better at everything than Arith. Arith loves his brother, but wants to show his father that he's just as good as Bram, so he decides to get ahold of a dragon egg (I stole the name Bram from a book called Modoc. It's the most fantastic true story I've ever read, and I highly recommend it. I'll have to start book reviews eventually...). Saleera, who comes from the desert town Garayt, is considered the village freak. And she too wants to prove herself by getting a dragon. But they don't want just any dragon. They want an imperial dragon-the dragons with the strongest psychic talent apart from sun dragons. But there's so few of them left on Soreina that their entire population is in the palace of Tarule. And even the eggs are locked safely away in a chamber. They set out to get their eggs, and bump into each other. Realizing they have the same goal, they team up. Arith has his mother's hippogriff, Syrinx, and she carries them on their way. A syrinx is actually an ancient kind of flute, (pronounced Seer-inx) and it's the name of a song that is quite popular among flutists, but I haven't played it yet. I'll have to ask for a copy of the music from my flute teacher... But that's where Syrinx got her name. And Saleera has a pet (not a familiar, just a pet) ferret named Kailo. He's pretty funny.
So, they break into the palace and manage to steal two imperial dragon eggs. They barely escape, but when they head back to their homes, they find that King and Queen Raeton, of Tarule, have sent their armies out to get rid of the towns that oppose them-which includes both Arith and Saleera's homes. So they both find themselves homeless with their dragon eggs, a hippogriff, and a ferret who's always hungry. No one they know is alive anymore.
Then Arith's egg hatches. Inside is a little sky blue dragon with patches of white. She looks quite like the sky. Her name is Shalia. It took me forever to find a good name for her. I really liked Kaila, but that was way to close to Kailo, the ferret. But now we have a lot of characters beginning with the letter "s"-Saleera, Syrinx, and Shalia.
Arith, Saleera, Syrinx, Kailo, and Shalia meet up with a caravan of survivors from the king and queen's attacks on towns. They join up with the caravan of refugees, and start to travel around to look for other survivors. That same day, Saleera's egg hatches into a little dragon. His name is Zuben. He has a bit of an attitude, unlike the exuberant Shalia. Zuben actually means "claw." I was looking for good names for him, and since he's black with white speckles (like the night sky) I started looking for astranomy terms. I found Zuben. In the constellation scorpio, Zuben was used in the phrase "the upper claw of the scorpion," or something like that. Now you know.
So right now, that's about as far as we are. THe caravan is currently stopped at a surviving town. We still don't know exactly where we're headed with this, but once we get a little more done, I'll update again.
Shalia and Maps
Ugh...more maps to draw...right now the three countries I've got are thumbtacked to my bulletin board on various bits of paper. It's a pain in the butt to make Wiverna land locked, if I havent mentioned it before ^_^ I should be adding two more countries, so there's like five on this specific continent. Oh and here's that photos Tara was talking about.
This is Shalia, Arith's dragon. Tara drew and colored it, I'm just the uploader.
This is Shalia, Arith's dragon. Tara drew and colored it, I'm just the uploader.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Kriayshun and Haminal
Hah! Now all my countries don't end in "a." And by the way, my wyvern country is Wiverna, not Wyverna. So, as you know, it's on the same continent as Draykia. Along with all those other dragon/griffin/phoenix animals. So any countries on that continent should hold similar creatures. I can't wait to see you map of it! Put it on the blog when you're finished. And I have another picture I'd like you to put up for me. Thanks again. I have a few more I want you to load, I admit. But most of them I can't give you to scan for me, unfortunately. I'll have to find another place to do that. Maybe I can do it on saturday?
Haminal is the name of the continent with all the human/animal hybride. Notice the title is a hybrid of the words "human" and "animal."
And Kriayshun is the continent with creatures we make up ourselves. It's pronounced like the word "creation" for obvious reasons.
Haminal is the name of the continent with all the human/animal hybride. Notice the title is a hybrid of the words "human" and "animal."
And Kriayshun is the continent with creatures we make up ourselves. It's pronounced like the word "creation" for obvious reasons.
Soreina response
You'll be proud to know I've added more to the Soreina map! A whole nother country to be exact! But trying to make Wyverna a land-locked country is a pain in the butt. I've also noticed...all your country/planet names...they all end with "a"....yeah just so you know. Anyway, just give me a list of all the places you want added and I'll make up maps and stuff. So far, it seems good.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Soreina, Magic-Earth, and Earth
So, for my stories, so far I have three main worlds I work off of. The first one is obviously Earth. It is exactly like it is today (usually). But I also work on futuristic Earth, or other planets in the Milky way. But they're all at least from this dimension.
Next there is Magic-Earth. Which, if you have read "Lullaby of Awakening," you will know about. It's an alternate Earth. Here's the deal. When humans first began evolving on Earth, Earth split into two. One Earth chose to give humans the power of technology which became our home. The other Earth gave humans magic. And that is the world where Brenor and Briena come from. They have the same geography as us. But small changes in evolutiono gave Magic-Earth slightly different species of plants, animals, and humans. They are still recognizable as relatives of animals from Technology-Earth, but there are subtle differences. And of course, Magic-Earth has magic instead of electricity and other sorts of technology like cars. People have magic, as do most plants and animals. And there's one country where time is distorted, so there exists many of the creatures that used to live on Earth before humans. That means dinosaurs and other prehistoric mammals. I like dinosaurs!
So, Soreina is another planet. That is, it has different geography from Earth and Magic-Earth. But it has humans and all of Earth's animals. It also has many other creatures that do not exist on Earth. Namely, dragons. But also wyverns ("On Wings of Wyverns" takes place on Soreina, as does the story Ellen and I are writing together), griffins, hippogriffs, phoenixes, winged horses, kirins, unicorns, and all those sorts of creatures. So, Ellen still has to tell me what she thinks of this because we're kinda sharing this world now, but I have a bunch of ideas for this world. I literally have a whole list of stories that I'm planning to set on Soreina. But I think one continent could hold all the sorts of creatures mentioned above. One smaller continent could host all human-animal hybrids such as centaurs, harpies, sphinxes, fauns, ex. And a third continent could be home to creatures that we make up all on out own. I have abunch of animals I made up, and I want to give them homes. I should put up pictures of them eventually.
And what I want to do is to have people from Magic-Earth find a way to breach the gap between themselves and Soreina. Some of them have already found ways to visit Technology-Earth, as dicussed in "Lullaby of Awakening." It would be really cool to link all my three favorite worlds somehow. And that way on Magic-Earth there could be the occasional dragon or centaur or something.
So, Ellen, if you're reading this, what do you think? Just post it on the blog, or something.
Next there is Magic-Earth. Which, if you have read "Lullaby of Awakening," you will know about. It's an alternate Earth. Here's the deal. When humans first began evolving on Earth, Earth split into two. One Earth chose to give humans the power of technology which became our home. The other Earth gave humans magic. And that is the world where Brenor and Briena come from. They have the same geography as us. But small changes in evolutiono gave Magic-Earth slightly different species of plants, animals, and humans. They are still recognizable as relatives of animals from Technology-Earth, but there are subtle differences. And of course, Magic-Earth has magic instead of electricity and other sorts of technology like cars. People have magic, as do most plants and animals. And there's one country where time is distorted, so there exists many of the creatures that used to live on Earth before humans. That means dinosaurs and other prehistoric mammals. I like dinosaurs!
So, Soreina is another planet. That is, it has different geography from Earth and Magic-Earth. But it has humans and all of Earth's animals. It also has many other creatures that do not exist on Earth. Namely, dragons. But also wyverns ("On Wings of Wyverns" takes place on Soreina, as does the story Ellen and I are writing together), griffins, hippogriffs, phoenixes, winged horses, kirins, unicorns, and all those sorts of creatures. So, Ellen still has to tell me what she thinks of this because we're kinda sharing this world now, but I have a bunch of ideas for this world. I literally have a whole list of stories that I'm planning to set on Soreina. But I think one continent could hold all the sorts of creatures mentioned above. One smaller continent could host all human-animal hybrids such as centaurs, harpies, sphinxes, fauns, ex. And a third continent could be home to creatures that we make up all on out own. I have abunch of animals I made up, and I want to give them homes. I should put up pictures of them eventually.
And what I want to do is to have people from Magic-Earth find a way to breach the gap between themselves and Soreina. Some of them have already found ways to visit Technology-Earth, as dicussed in "Lullaby of Awakening." It would be really cool to link all my three favorite worlds somehow. And that way on Magic-Earth there could be the occasional dragon or centaur or something.
So, Ellen, if you're reading this, what do you think? Just post it on the blog, or something.
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