Fun Facts

This is my top 12 random fun facts and trivia about Nalvolia and the thought process that went into it. I don't know why I made this before the rest of the character pages but I did. And yes, some of this stuff is obvious. Other stuff isn't though. Also, this page is created by AStarryMidnight, the author, so all uses of the word I are her mentioning herself. And this'll also include some explanations and maybe some spoilers.

## Characters

1. I purposefully created Zafirah and Ashford so that they were pretty much opposites. Zafirah is weak to and afraid of fire and Ashford is weak to and afraid of water. That is also why Zafirah can control water and Ashford can control fire. They are both opposites that work together, like a Yin and Yang.
2. I currently have no ships between the characters. Though I may add this depending on how the story and characters progress.
3. I made every character different in their own way, especially with classes. They all represent different classes to demonstrate how different people can come together as friends.
4. I specifically made Kali the only one who was 14 so that it extended the difference between her and the others. She was already much darker and a loner and it sort of symbolises that.
5. One of these characters is based off of my looks and the other off of my personality. I'm not sure why. I think it's because that would make it easier to describe both of those characters.
6. Another character was inspired by someone. Don't worry, I asked for permission. But I'm not revealing who that character is for some fun reasons.
7. I created each of the Founders to both match and contrast the Claimers (The people who claim their objects)
8. Some of the characters are weak where another is strong. This means that no singular person is going to be the main focus all the time. They all have to rely on each other. And their skills overlap as well so it's not completely dependant on one person until it comes to powers.
9. Contrary to Ashford and Zafirah, I made Adelia and Miles have a lot in common. Their difference is more about how they are perceived by others instead of personality differences. Yes, they are slightly different but not to the extent of Zafirah and Ashford.
10. Just because I felt like it, I actually made one of the boys be smarter than one of the girls. I feel like in so many books the girls are always smarter than the boys so I just thought having one boy who was smarter would be a good idea.
11. Miles is the only straight person out of all of the main 5. Ashford is bisexual, Kali is asexual, Zafirah is Pansexual and Adelia is bisexual. I just think this makes things interesting. On a similar note, they all pretty much have different "nationalities".
12. Adelia Lionel was originally going to be Cynthia Levesque, one of my roleplay OCs. I decided against this because of two reasons. Number one is because I decided to use my friend's OC in honour of her (Don't worry, I asked for permission) and the other reason is because it's already kinda similar to Percy Jackson and I don't want to steal one of their characters' names.

## Idea/Concept

1. The original idea of Nalvolia was created on the 7th of April at 11:59am according to my notes. I stayed up multiple nights in a row just to get the idea nailed.
2. I had the basic ideas sorted weeks beforehand but had never written it down. All I really had was that I wanted it to involve powers and each section, which is what I called classes at the time, to have its own unique power. I only put down the specifics that day and the following hours. I completed all the basic information by 5:45am. I then continued to write about the Schools until maybe 8am or so.
3. I didn't realise this at first but this is kind of like a Harry Potter and Percy Jackson mash up. I promise I didn't mean for it to seem like that. But yeah, kind of funny how inspiration comes from so many places without you realising.
4. In my first concept, the Fames were called Famous and the Magics students were taught Invisibility, not Telekinesis. I changed the Fames so that they'd match up better with the rest of classes, having an s at the end to represent a plural, and I changed the Provided Power because most people I've met associate magic with telekinesis before other powers.
5. I created the Schools in this order: Elite Academy, Thyme School, Mysteria Institute, Hybrid Hall. I wasn't going to include Mysteria Institute and Hybrid Hall originally and I'll explain why in the next point.
6. The original story was going to be about a rivalry between Elite Academy and Thyme School. So it was Status 1 and 2 vs Status 3. But I scrapped it. I decided that would be boring and too easy to win for Elite Academy since they have people who can alter memories, control people and have Magics students with the most Unique Powers. So yeah, no rivalry.
7. But on that note, that is what inspired the story of the *Lost Period*, which is the story of how all the classes were steered apart. And then also brought back together. It is also the introduction of Hybrid Hall.
8. The idea of having hybrids and cross-statuses came to me from my mum. She asked me what would happen if the gem shone two colours. That made me go back into my room and create them. I actually only called them hybrids at first but I decided to call them cross-statuses as well for some reason.
9. I originally was going to have to have the kids find out their classes themselves. But I then thought that that would create a much bigger sub plot. I did not want to go into that because I wanted the main focus to be on how they were developing their abilities and finding out who they truly are instead of finding something that isn't as important to their character arc.
10. I wrote out multiple copies of the concepts. I have one on my phone, two hand-written, one uploaded to OneNote and the stuff on here. I really didn't want to lose the work and it was also great for editing and fixing up problems and overlaps.
11. I have to thank Pinterest since that helped me come up with a lot of ideas for appearances of places. They also provided some of the images on this wiki. A lot of my inspiration came from me just searching through images and adding them all into a folder and then basing a story off of some of them. I just realised how unoriginal this is actually...
12. The original name for Healers was going to be Middles. They were called that because, since it was kind of based on the lost period, the order from Royals to Helpers was their order in priorities and health. They were called Middles because they'd forever be in the middle. But I scrapped it when I changed the storyline. But this will be referenced when I tell the tale of the Lost Period.

I will add more to this page later. But for now, this is it. I hope you enjoyed!