A week of insomnia, nightmares to go crazy over (dreaming my cat had gotten horribly mauled: he was missing the top of his front paw and had literally no face anymore and he still moved. Like a zombie). Chronophobia kicking in with birthday nigh and novel still a distant dream, on top of society demanding I be useful to them (understandably). So much time to do everything, so little progress, and I'm going a little crazy over here trying to keep up with everything. I grow more and more in need of a complete break from the world.
Anyhow. This theme, we're going to breach a topic I've skirted about for quite some time now. It is one of the main topics of my story, namely the 'death' part. I hadn't originally planned on discussing this topic more in-depth, but it'll be a nice conclusion to this character-filled year, having started it with life and Aneskia :)
So without further ado I give you...
Ayden
He makes my arting life so easy :°)
Don't you hate it when people purposefully hide a character's appearance so to make them more 'mysterious'? I do too. This isn't a cover-up: Ayden doesn't have an appearance because, technically, he's a dead man's soul.
Who is Ayden?
Ayden was, and is. These two lives aren't the same anymore, as the Human Ayden died when his soul escaped his body and possessed his sister's corpse instead.
Back up, rewind.
So, who was Ayden? He was a Human like any Human, with a strong interest in alchemy, and a failing body that made living all the harder. He had always been a recluse, always hated that he was weak while his sister Kristin had been strong and beautiful. And, one day, Ayden had had enough of his life and tried to kill himself.
That is when the Whispers spoke to him for the very first time.
Ayden was not the same after this encounter. He had experienced something, an existence beyond the veil of reality - a quiet peace he'd long to reach again. But the Whispers had frightened him; though he wanted to cease living, he was afraid of attempting to die. He did not know what was going to happen. Thus begun an obsession that brought him to Korinda, the Human county reputed for its shady dealings and even shadier people, and eventually led him back home, where he would eventually kill his sister, and take over her body.
Who is Ayden? He is what is called a Necromancer - a living being transmuted by the power of death, risen through death into a new existence. In death did Ayden find peace... and, eventually, a new purpose that would befall him after his very first encounter with the Vampire Richard...
Ayden and the Novel
Well, to cut this short: he won't be in it XD not in the first volume, anyway. So, why am I mentioning him? Because Ayden is the cause of the Empire's corruption - and, ultimately, one of the reasons that the story will take place. He was created as I sought explanations/backstory to the fact the Human Empire gets corrupted at all... and, from there, things evolved. Ayden became a very real personality, albeit flawed, and has even taught me a few things about Necromancers that I hadn't known.
Though Ayden has no direct role in the first tome, his presence by the Emperors' sides has shaped about three centuries of Human history, culminating in the creation of laws that forbid any and all magic-users to tread Empire grounds... and, as can be expected, it didn't take long for laws to become monetization methods.
That is how, one day, the Human town of Farren will be the theater of a lone girl's flight...
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