Erebell

## Introduction

Erebell is a book series. While the initial draft of the first book has been finished, I doubt it will ever be published. My focus in writing it was more to learn how to write. Learn to write consistently, learn to keep going at a story for a year nonstop, learn to write lengthy character arcs, and so on. While the others at least have a chance of being published, Erebell doesn’t. Most details of this story will slowly be appropriated by other stories. However it is my first ever novel, so it deserves a place in this wiki.

## Plot

The Erebellan Empire(Usually shortened to Erebell) is spreading across the North-West of Laufey, and, in the wake of the Viazen Genocide, it became clear that they were an extreme threat to other countries. Thus, a secret organisation known as the Imeri plotted to bring down the empire. They needed the nation to be in a state of chaos and unrest for their plan to go ahead. Meanwhile the current Emperor, Saras, was the most powerful mage in the world, and a threat. So they decided to kill two birds with one stone. Take him out, and cause the unrest they need. Fortunately, they had a prophecy, stating that Proditta would kill him. Proditta was the High-Priestess of Viazefel’s niece, and an exceedingly powerful mage, and so is leading the genocide survivors. They hunt her down through Erebellan land, but she decides that bringing down the empire and getting vengeance for her people is less important than helping those of her people still here rebuild their society in secret, and so refuses to get involved. She won’t change her mind. She stays out of it. Rather, the prophecies begin to change. Every written copy of the prophecies change, because she has changed her fate.

The first book has two other major POVs:

Meanwhile, on the East Coast of Laufey, the supercontinent on which the series takes place, a land desecrated by the great war against this setting’s Dark Lord, thirty years ago, the desert still haunted by ghosts names ‘Shivers’ that appear at night, and mindlessly kill. Tanri’ji is forced to survive in the harsh deserts alone, after her nomadic tribe is killed off by a passing warlord. The ghosts have left traces of their vengeful half-sentient souls on the air, which affects the inhabitants brains, so they are unable to form any lasting formal governing bodies or large settlements. She, however, is one of the few people still born with the Old Magic. She has the ability to manipulate different forms of magical energy. This, coupled with her sorcery, makes her a virtually unstoppable force. It also means that she can manipulate soul energy, and thus render a region permanently free of shivers and their mental influence, leaving them unable to enter. She makes her way to the coast, and reaches a small settlement, by the coast.

Meanwhile we have Saras’s POV, where he roots out rebels, and deals with his son’s dissent, trying to prevent the prince from warmongering, and indeed prevent any invasions of other nations, in part for Erebell’s own benefit, to prevent and alliance of nations from wiping it out, and in part due to his pacifism. He is struggling to write the wrongs of his dictator father, and trying to achieve real political change (Ending laws prohibiting female involvement in certain careers, abolishing slavery, allowing villages and towns to elect their own mayors, etc.) in Erebell. However, he has a mental condition that he knows will drive him insane, and his only two heirs (Tanikka and Erebellus) are both problems in their own way. Erebellus is a warmonger and ideologically opposed to his father with regards to his changes. Meanwhile Tanikka has fled out of fear of her brother killing her for the throne. Erebellus takes out an army by boat to ‘attack the inquisitorial domain’ a nation with whom open war is all but inevitable, and a preemptive strike is necessary. Then he sails right past, and where to, Saras has no idea.

Tanri witnesses the Erebellan fleet landing in the settlement, and flees to Jinna Draik, a warlord trying to unify the West again, the last descendants of their former rulers, whose entire family have unique and powerful magic. Tanri is a powerful asset to her, and the fleet could destroy them all, so Jinna takes her in, and gets ready for a war.

## Tropes

Evil empire. Chosen One. Dark Lord. If you can see any others in the plot, add them to the list.