Day 7. Ten songs of the soundtrack of your novel

I’m not good at this one, even if all the day I’m listening to my music, I’ve never thought in this way of the music I heard so… I chose the songs which lyrics were… a little linked to my story (that’s what they wanted?)

1. Zero- Bump of Chicken

2. unravel- TK from Ling Tosite Sigure

3. 42- Coldplay

4. Anti Hero- Sekai no Owari

5. Daze-  MARiA feat. Jin

6. Circus monster- VocaCircus feat. Megurine Luka

7. Episode. 0- Kanimiso-P feat Gackpo

8. Colors of Heart- UVERworld

9. Kimi to iu hana- Asian Kung-fu Generation

10. Soldier’s Poem- Muse

Day 6. Ten images or objects that describe your novel, and how they fit into the story

I’m not so happy with this day request because I don’t want to use images that could be stolen and all of that. I tried giving the page source (in the post on Tumblr) but I still feel it like wrong so I want to apologize, before anything, for using this images.

This one is because the main setting is a forest, almost everywhere you go in there is part of this big forest in which my story takes place. 

However with this one I want to show you that it’s not a normal forest because in this world the magic runs everywhere. 

But not everything is forest, there’s too a great prairie like this.

A really big waterfall more or less like this one.

A breed used to live in tree houses like this.

Some others lived in ice caves like this.

The crazy fire people even lived in the slope of a volcano like this one.

There’re a lot of more landscapes I wanted to use here, yet I have another thing to show you.

The war. It started between the breeds and “ended” it with the Magicless stealing their lands and freedom. Every day in that world is a battle even if most of them are trying to hide themselves.

A great part of the places where the Antiques used to live are now ruins whereas the poeple try to live hiding.

But even among the ruins and sadness, the magic still flows with them so the freedom is not a dream anymore.

The Magicless made their living in lands that are not theirs, thus the true owners will take back what they had.

Day 5. A real book one of your characters has read. Who read it, and what impact did it have?

I can only think in Art of War by Sun-Tzu. I bet his mother made him read and memorized it. I want to assume that Sun-Tzu was part of the breeds, because if he wasn’t Mynthae wouldn’t be able to read it.

He was forced to read just to learn about war, how to be good at it and stuff. In the end he found really interesting the book so… no bad feelings.

Day 4. A fictional book one of your characters has read. Who read it, and what was it about?

I bet Emisya and Vonaxie are the ones who read the most. While Emisya had read magicless’ books, Vonaxie read Antiques’ books; that’s why I’m sure she was who have in her mind fictional stories because the Antiques’ books talked about the breeds and history.

So I’m now imagining Emisya reading about fictional worlds with a different kind of peace, specially a book her adoptive mother gave her about a romance. To Emisya it was a weird but cute story that narrated about a couple from different countries which were in war, when he was injured she found him and treated him, in that time they known each other until they fall in love; however the conflicts between their countries made impossible to stay together for more time than year.

They tried to run from both places when their child born, but the hunt for them was too dangerous already, so they asked for help to the only friend of the mother and one of the father. Both ran away together until the news about the death of the parents reached them, that made the man return to his country trying to distract and give false information about the child while she hide to rise the baby alone.

The book was named “Red Memories”, Emisya later discovered that the story of the book was, a little, similar to her parents story. She read the book when she was 8 years old and she knew her past until she was eighteen. Emisya almost felt the urge to hit her adoptive mother for that kind of joke and, at the same time, she felt thankful about the book and for let her dream about her true parents.

Day 3. A 200 word description of a setting in the novel you intend to write

The Children of the Wind used to live over the Sonata Mountains in the very south of the continent. It was a mountain range made of seven principal pikes, in that place the wind flow was really strong that nothing could survive in the high except for the whisperers who learnt to endure it and to live with help of it.

They built their houses where the wind used to strike stronger making the stone weaken, they made caves and tunnels that connected the seven mountains to place their town. The wind found harmony in those holes and passages, so it never sound like a cry anymore, it became a constant music to bring peace and happiness to the others, to the far away breeds; it was said that in every season the songs changed and, sometimes, it changed according to the whisperers feelings.

When they were expelled, the music stopped; the snow, the rockfalls and the time broke the harmony. The few animals that learnt to live alongside with the Children of the Wind migrate to the slopes, live was impossible again when the Sonata Mountains fall in a deep sleep until one of the Wind heirs was near.

Day 2. 500 words on your protagonist by your protagonist

I’m from the Children of the Wind, some call us whisperers. I’m the second child from the family leader which is supposed to just have one children, however the wind, the fire, the water and the starts told to the Elder and to my father that hard times were coming so our family needed more heirs. That way the three of us born, growing and mastering different abilities. 

My older sister was really strong for me until I reached the six years, then I was the strongest but she still was more skilled in the Whispers, our youngest sister grew with an intelligence as great as our father’s. We had all the attention from our people, they helped us training, learning and playing, our father spoiled us too, just a little, because he was so warm, gentle and smart; on the contrary our mother was cold, strict and strong so we used to be really afraid of her. 

That was such a peaceful life, almost boring because I couldn’t find were to prove my true strength with people different than mine. I wished for that but not for what I get, I regretted my desire. 

My parents died, my sister died, the three of them protecting our people. I never wanted the leadership, I hated such a big responsibility because I couldn’t fight anymore until I found a partner however the times changed and I gave everything I had to safe them until they took me.

It was painful, those experiments on me made me stronger at the cost of my freewill. Those magicless used me to broke my breed’s rules, made me kill innocent people until they sold me to another magicless who I had to serve until I met Emisya, she told me weird things but helped me to run away from them with her. 

 I returned to the forest, in that moment I noticed how much I missed it and the Wind greeted me in words that I can’t no longer understand because my people, where my younger sister stayed, erased my memories about their location and our abilities. 

 Four years had been and my worries just grow every day while I pray to Father Wind to keep them safe and hide. I want to found them, I’m going to do it but first I’m going to follow Rael steps to unite the breeds and seek for the freedom the magicless took from us, we will won our lands back. 

 I’m not longer the same boy they kidnapped, I had made evil and I know I’ll do more, I’m afraid that my sister won’t recognize me anymore even if Wuem and Kam did. I’m using Atne, Binza, Quima and Kampei to convince myself that I’m not just evil but I know I can’t fool me, nor fool my mother in the clouds. What a disappointment I became to her; I just hope for the strength to keep my sister alive and those who I sworn to protect.

Day 1. 500 words on your protagonist.

Mynthae born to be a hero. With a gentle smile, a calmed look and a strong will, he makes people follow and trust him; he cares about his people and, more than anyone, his family. He born in the leader family of the five breeds where his mother was the strongest warrior and his father the skillest whisperer. His older sister inherited his father skills, his younger sister inherited the intelligence from both while himself grew stronger than his mother and any other warrior from the breeds. Strong as he looked, his people started to compared him with their precious past hero: Rael. Both were smart, incredible leaders, kind and the best warriors from their times.

He is a Children of the Wind, whisperer soul, someone that talks like the wind; his people has many names given for their abilities which let them heal any wound, increase their physical strength and aptitudes, and invoke the force that the wind lend them. Himself is better summoning strength for himself than healing, at least when he hadn’t worries.

His joyful and peaceful life changed in less than a month. He lost his parents and older sister when they defended their people, the responsibility of leadership stroke him harder than he wished before, however the five breeds trust him even when he was kidnapped. He fought alone with the enemy because he was the stronger, he protected his people until the trap caught him.

In the first year they had him, he changed. With a expressionless face, a cold look and a empty life, they made him kill when he didn’t want to. He was in The War, a place where the ones without magic obligated the magical ones, the Antiques, to fight between them until one or other died. Being owned and controlled by that people, Mynthae couldn’t do nothing more than watch in what they transformed him while his only thoughts and desires were that his people and younger sister were safe.

Somehow he escaped from that fate meeting a girl whose destiny was supposed to help him and all the breeds that were in danger because of the magicless people. Together they started a journey where his first thought was to return with his people until the hero in him grew stronger that he decided he would use all his strength to free the Antiques and restore the territory the magicless stole from them more than a century ago.

Joining forces with the remaining free breeds, Mynthae traveled across the continent looking for help, looking for his people and making his own name be known by those who dare to treat the Antiques because he is the new hero, he is what them needed and waited for that long. All thanks to a young lady who believed in him, a young boy who admired his strength and a evil one who proved and provoked the strength of him while doubting about his actions.

Enduring the worst, changing and suffering, he became a hero.