When Galbatorix finally realises he is struggling with the Varden, he comes...
Once, long ago, the elf Maerzadí had a premonition that he would accidentally kill his son in battle. Rather than live to see it happen, he committed suicide, saving his son, and at the same time proving that the future isn’t set. Short of killing...
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One of your friendly moderating staff, Alzyran is very interested in reading your writing and seeing you improve. Just drop him a line if you ever feel like it, and he'll be sure to read your stories and give feedback.
I'm ____ years old (not telling) and a college freshman! My interest in writing fantasy goes back to when I was seven or eight years old - I loved history. So I started writing histories and drawing maps and eventually stories to go with these worlds. Boy, was I a nerd (still am, DEAL WITH IT!).
I am also a commited Christian who hopes to change the world.
Anyway I've been developing the world for this series for two years now... while coming up with characters and story. That's just the kind of person I am.
I hope to one day publish fiction and/or earn my doctorate in history.
As of August 2009, Alzyran is a busy college student. He is trying to update when he has time to write... please don't hate me for my priorities!
NaNoWriMo 2009.
I swear I'll finish this year if it kills me.
Beneath the surface of the world of today, lies a multi-national conglomerate formed from the bones of ancient cultures. Its mission: to provide a constant source of InspirationTM for artists and writers and anyone in need of ideas. In exchange for periodic Invocation, all customers will receive a Dole of Enlightenment for the improvement of human culture.All that is about to change.
The board in charge of operations, Mt. Parnassus' Nine Heavenly Muses Inc., decides that the 21st century world no longer deserves access to the Mind of Gods, and will cut off the flow of InspirationTM before the sun rises tomorrow morning. However, if one mortal can traverse the Circles of Tartarus and fulfill the Nine Trials, humanity will have one last chance. Each Muse has chosen a champion to compete in the Eleventh Hour Games, but even the best laid plans of gods and geese are bound to run with hilarity.
A minor muse, Hildy, the patron of slackers, has also presented a champion: deadbeat writer Adam Douglass from the sleepy town of Middlebury, Indiana. In classic tradition, the unlikely must challenge the heavyweights in an epic contest of talents. One problem: Douglass has never even finished a story.
Suddenly the stakes are even higher. If Adam loses, no procrastinator will ever find success ever again. It's hopeless. He must resort to a classic strategy employed by failures the world over: Cheat. With the help of the Three Field Guides, Sims, Bill, and Jane, he may just have a fighting chance.
With a single night to save the world, can InspirationTM be preserved? Can slackers like Hildy and Adam ever succeed? And, most important of all, will the Golden Goose (or is it a duck?) survive to enjoy the victory feast? More info...
Summary: You have spent seventy years away from home, seeking to stave off the darkness, only to have those whom you love best seized from you. After suffering great loss, you have hardened your heart rather than face sorrow head on. Returning to your home after a long and bittersweet journey, the sight of a single flower sets your well-constructed defenses aflame and you must learn to dwell in happiness. If you wish to survive the encroaching war, you must learn that love is more powerful than grief and joy is more powerful than bitterness.
More info...Summary: He found it strangely comforting to know that they shared the same drive, the same angry fire that quickened their steps when others faltered. In her, he recognized a kindred spirit. [Eldest p.504]
Roran/Birgit.
Post-Eldest AU.
She's more than just a widow. He's more than just a lover. And they need each other more than they know.
NOW COMPLETE!
More info...Summary: The world was not once as it now is. Power surged unbound throughout Alagaësia. But such times have passed and are long since forgotten...
Among those disciplined in the remembrance of things past, it is well-known that as time progresses, truth becomes clouded by the exaggerations of storytellers, legends fade into ancient memories, and that which we should remember is far too often forgotten. As history becomes legend, and legend becomes myth, we labor against the opinions of the masses stirred by the winds of change, which blow about even the most skilled of minds. Above all, we scholars, recorders of the world, must without exception tell the truth…
~ excerpted from Tome I of Heslant’s Truth, or as the Elves have it, Domia abr Wyrda, (The Mastery of Fate).
All is fading. Before the coming of the elves, before the dawn of the age of the Riders, the Shades of Vroengard seek domination over the inhabited regions of Alagaësia. They hunger for life, power and blood, devouring whatever they can grasp. Only one race dares openly defy them, the Arget of the Spine, whom history will remember as the Grey Folk.
Taking the fate of the world in their hands, the fast-fading Arget work an enchantment greater than any before. In the hands of Kuthian, long an exile from his race, is placed a stone. A stone whose power will determine the history of Alagaësia for years to come.
This is the story of Kuthian's Stone, first of the tales of Blodh Arget, the legends of the Silver Blood.
*IMPORTANT* - Yes. this is an Alternate Universe fiction! If you disagree with my portrayal of Alagaësia, then I am fine with this. In my view, however, the Inheritance Cycle, is a classic example of history told by the winners. My entire purpose here is to make you think. *END TRANSMISSION*
More info...A collection of poetry... delve into the mind of one who knows Leithian, release from bondage.
walk in the shoes of the barefoot nomad.
More info...Who has Nasuada loved, and who could she love if given the chance?
Oneshot (technically a five-in-oneshot) concerning the five who found Nasuada's love, in a couple senses, tenses, and two or three quite by accident.
Written for the club, Five Things. Posted because I love it.
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If God is real, then how does he wish to be known? How does he show himself, and how should we react? My contemplations...
Context Note: I am a Christian believer. There - take me as I am, please.
More info...I built the house to protect myself, never fearing the stones I cast at my own face. I built the house to shield myself from pain, never shrinking from the fate of utter isolation.
This is a true story.
More info...Saphira is dead. In the aftermath of this tragedy, Eragon goes on a journey to find peace for his troubled soul. Along the way, he discovers more love and joy than he ever thought possible.
The songs found at the ends of each chapter are not my own; they are all taken from The Everglow, by Mae. I do not intend any infringement, I only use them for inspiration.
More info...These songs and stories tell of the world as seen by the Eyrins in my story, Over the Sea. Some are mythical, some historical.
Enjoy!
P.S. For those of you who are new to my writings, the Eyrins are like humans, but winged.
More info...Summary: ~ Alzyran and Æscher Ravens are the last of a people condemned to die. Vowing to avenge the wrongs done to their people and all in the world of Eyrilaven, they set out to restore the original system.
But can they gain venegance without being corrupted? Or will thirst for blood become their ultimate goal?
Eventually to become first in a series - and forgive my short chapters... I am a free verse poet attempting to give my prose breath.
More info...Imagine for a moment the feeling of reading the greatest story you've ever seen, hearing the song that fills the soundtrack of your life. Imagine that that feeling is gone forever.
That's what will happen unless dead-end writer Adam Douglass can stop the Muses from cutting off the gift of inspiration. What may even happen at sunrise...
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