Every Sunday I run a Special relating to my writing endeavours and the world of Aeyuu, which is the stage for many stories developed further through the Tales from Aeyuu Patreon. These Blogs are closely tied with my novel-to-be, The Age of Silence, which is basically a story about Love, Sacrifice, and Death.
This Sunday, after expanding on the lives of the most recent Ansai, I'll be delving into main protagonist Aneskia's race, the Syrilae, in-depth.
Important terms in a nutshell
Syrilae - A race of Elves with tremendous magical powers. It is cultural belief among Syrilae that they cannot exist without an Ansai serving as catalyst for the Aberviohn's power.
Ansai - A term roughly translating as 'leader'. The Ansai is a Syrilae born to a unique legacy within the race, whose very life is tied in with the Aberviohn's lives.
Read more about Ansai Adelouhn and Ansai Sorasiehn - Read more about Ansai Nefahtil and Selessannea
Read more about Ansai Adelouhn and Ansai Sorasiehn - Read more about Ansai Nefahtil and Selessannea
Aberviohn - Glowing crystal blue trees that surround the Syrilae's native Village, located in the Ghostlight forest. They possess a certain sentience and innate power, and are revered as guardians by the Syrilae.
Aneskia was born to her Syrilae mother Niskania and her Elven father Jethrin about a century ago. Jethrin passed away soon after her birth, leaving Niskania to raise her daughter alone. In time, as for all Syrilae, Aneskia's powers began to manifest. These unusual powers allowed her to read others' hearts and experience their emotions as though they were her own.
Early in life, Aneskia was confronted with darkness. The depths of her mother's heart contained sorrow, hatred, sentiments of loss and having been abandoned. Emotions which Aneskia could not quite understand nor cope with; being a kind-hearted child, Aneskia decided to not bother her mother with questions or concern and sought comfort with her mother's best friend, Kristofa, whom she would eventually come to refer to as 'palo' - father.
As she aged, Aneskia's curiousity and desire to help her mother any way she can brought them closer together, though bridging the gap of despair remained an impossible affair. To feel closer to the father she had never known, Aneskia learned with Kristofa of other cultures and languages. One day, she hoped, she would feel capable of helping her mother shed the darkness that had ensnared her heart.
At about a century, Aneskia was still a child by Syrilae standards; despite her youth, Aneskia, like other Syrilae, realized one day that the Aberviohn had changed. That there were emotions in the air that did not belong - a sense of heat, of rashness, that influenced the Syrilae themselves and drove anger into their hearts. Violent outbursts became too common an occurrence.
Aneskia learned one day that, as Ansai Nefahtil became weaker, so did the Coming Ansai's power, taken of from the Aberviohn to sustain themselves, spread and grow within the Aberviohn. Power rooted in hatred. Something dark and malicious that, if allowed to spread further, would signify the end of the Syrilae as they had always been: good-hearted, good-natured, and just. Worse than death, the Syrilae would mutate into something too horrible to define.
So Aneskia accepted to defy fate by allying herself with Seliana, a shunned Syrilae woman rumoured to be immortal, with whom Kristofa himself had allied in order to find a solution and avoid for the Coming Ansai to fully become Ansai. With her power rooted in unconditional love, and despite her youth, Aneskia was thought of as the ideal candidate to inherit the Ansai legacy.
With the transfer a success and the Coming Ansai's power severed from the Aberviohn's, peace returned to the Syrilae Village - in appearance only. None truly did understand what had happened, or how a common child had suddenly inherited the Ansai's power. Viewed as something now unnatural and disturbing, Aneskia herself was shunned by the majority of her peers. Only a handful of Syrilae remained by her side and took care of her.
Aneskia's heart had broken when she learned her mother had died while the transfer had taken place, and that Kristofa had left without saying goodbye. Only then did she regret her decision, despite the knowledge that there had been no other choice. She had made this decision to save her people, those she cared about... and they had left her side. The only ones left were the Aberviohn, and even their voice sometimes could not reach her.
Aneskia began to lose time. To lose moments. She would wake up as though from a daydream, feeling impossible eyes staring at her. Another voice had found it way into her heart - a violent, ruthless presence that she came not to fear, as it oft chased those unseen eyes away.
The few years that passed saw Aneskia mature further, her mind adapting to the far greater power at her disposal as Ansai, but her heart remaining torn by fear and self-doubt - and a deeply rooted solitude that, one day, would attract the deadly kind of attention.
And that is all for Aneskia! There's obviously a lot more to say, but that'll be for the novel ^^ and a short story that is in the works to serve as springboard for said novel. I'm really looking forward to getting it nice and polished to submit it to Kindle *dance* that, we hope, will be a big step towards getting my works better known. Which is the ultimate goal :D (well, known and enjoyed).
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next Sunday Special, same Blogger channel :D
A loving soul
Aneskia was born to her Syrilae mother Niskania and her Elven father Jethrin about a century ago. Jethrin passed away soon after her birth, leaving Niskania to raise her daughter alone. In time, as for all Syrilae, Aneskia's powers began to manifest. These unusual powers allowed her to read others' hearts and experience their emotions as though they were her own.
Early in life, Aneskia was confronted with darkness. The depths of her mother's heart contained sorrow, hatred, sentiments of loss and having been abandoned. Emotions which Aneskia could not quite understand nor cope with; being a kind-hearted child, Aneskia decided to not bother her mother with questions or concern and sought comfort with her mother's best friend, Kristofa, whom she would eventually come to refer to as 'palo' - father.
As she aged, Aneskia's curiousity and desire to help her mother any way she can brought them closer together, though bridging the gap of despair remained an impossible affair. To feel closer to the father she had never known, Aneskia learned with Kristofa of other cultures and languages. One day, she hoped, she would feel capable of helping her mother shed the darkness that had ensnared her heart.
Child of the Aberviohn
At about a century, Aneskia was still a child by Syrilae standards; despite her youth, Aneskia, like other Syrilae, realized one day that the Aberviohn had changed. That there were emotions in the air that did not belong - a sense of heat, of rashness, that influenced the Syrilae themselves and drove anger into their hearts. Violent outbursts became too common an occurrence.
Aneskia learned one day that, as Ansai Nefahtil became weaker, so did the Coming Ansai's power, taken of from the Aberviohn to sustain themselves, spread and grow within the Aberviohn. Power rooted in hatred. Something dark and malicious that, if allowed to spread further, would signify the end of the Syrilae as they had always been: good-hearted, good-natured, and just. Worse than death, the Syrilae would mutate into something too horrible to define.
So Aneskia accepted to defy fate by allying herself with Seliana, a shunned Syrilae woman rumoured to be immortal, with whom Kristofa himself had allied in order to find a solution and avoid for the Coming Ansai to fully become Ansai. With her power rooted in unconditional love, and despite her youth, Aneskia was thought of as the ideal candidate to inherit the Ansai legacy.
The price of change
With the transfer a success and the Coming Ansai's power severed from the Aberviohn's, peace returned to the Syrilae Village - in appearance only. None truly did understand what had happened, or how a common child had suddenly inherited the Ansai's power. Viewed as something now unnatural and disturbing, Aneskia herself was shunned by the majority of her peers. Only a handful of Syrilae remained by her side and took care of her.
Aneskia's heart had broken when she learned her mother had died while the transfer had taken place, and that Kristofa had left without saying goodbye. Only then did she regret her decision, despite the knowledge that there had been no other choice. She had made this decision to save her people, those she cared about... and they had left her side. The only ones left were the Aberviohn, and even their voice sometimes could not reach her.
Herald
Aneskia began to lose time. To lose moments. She would wake up as though from a daydream, feeling impossible eyes staring at her. Another voice had found it way into her heart - a violent, ruthless presence that she came not to fear, as it oft chased those unseen eyes away.
The few years that passed saw Aneskia mature further, her mind adapting to the far greater power at her disposal as Ansai, but her heart remaining torn by fear and self-doubt - and a deeply rooted solitude that, one day, would attract the deadly kind of attention.
* * *
And that is all for Aneskia! There's obviously a lot more to say, but that'll be for the novel ^^ and a short story that is in the works to serve as springboard for said novel. I'm really looking forward to getting it nice and polished to submit it to Kindle *dance* that, we hope, will be a big step towards getting my works better known. Which is the ultimate goal :D (well, known and enjoyed).
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next Sunday Special, same Blogger channel :D
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