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I've been spending a lot of time thinking about my story, my opus. I've basically been mentally writing it since I was nine, I didn't actually start with the characters I have now it actually started as the story about the parents of my current characters, over time it's matured and evolved into the story that now dances through my head at all hours. When I first imagined it, in the first form of what it would become, I had been reading a lot of sappy stories and as teenage girls are prone to I focussed on the romance I wanted to be in it, all the things I wrote out revolved around this romance, however, I think even then my subconscious knew what it was about because in the middle of these horrid sappy moments I would have my character exchanging snark and witticisms with her brother. In it's current form she's not with the character I initially imagined her with but rather with one who I feel better about, it's not a Romeo and Juliet-esq tragic love story, it's two people who have grown up who have experienced the worst the world has to throw at them and somehow still manage to go forward, they don't need each other to exist but they make each other happy, and even if they didn't have to relationship they do they'd still be friends, still be family; their's is a relationship that built slowly it's based on trust and on a strong sense of family, and most importantly it's not the focus of the story, it's something that happens in the background, the story doesn't revolve around it. You could remove all elements of romance and the story itself would still go on. Which I feel is proof of how far I've come as a writer.
The focus of the story is the lives of my two main characters. There's cliches and tropes but I can't imagine it any other way. I know people probably get bored of the books that focus on those special characters who are unique, they want to read about everyday people, well sorry but this is Fantasy genre and it's a story about a Prince and Princess, so ngeh!
Heh, anyway the story follows Cat and Ty. The Prince and Princess of a world called Chimera (Chimera meaning 'daydream' rather than a mythical monster) They are the only children of the Queen, and her husband, the sociopolitical structure of their world is very different from our own. It has more to do with land-ties. I'll give you a little background.

It began with the Elder Gods. The first was The Lord of Time, he was followed by his siblings Magic, Earth, Water, Air and Fire. As happens in most mythologies the Gods fell in love, Earth with Air, Fire with Water, Magic knowing their difficulties and out of love of her siblings created a world where all elements were equal, this world welcomed the offspring of the Elder unions and was populated not only with their children but with souls and races created by Magic, she also created a soul for the world, and created a daughter of her own flesh and magic after seeing how her siblings loved their own offspring. As time passed the magic that bound the world together began to falter, the descendants of her daughter being the only thing keeping the world together, by that time no god could walk the worlds in their Godly form, as she was the Goddess of that world she had kept charge of the souls creating them, reincarnating them and rewarding them. Seeing what was happening and realising that her magic was required to rebind the world she incarnated herself as one of her daughters descendants, leaving her most trusted advisors with her charge. Once incarnated she vaguely remembered her Godly self and she walked the lines of the world threading her magic and rebinding the world, accompanying her were a Clan of Warriors, the peoples of her world were extremely sensitive the magics of the world and so had felt it beginning to falter and die, when they realised that the girl was rejuvenating and saving their world and them it was decided that she and all her descendants would be rewarded so that they could keep the world together and strong, it was believed that being viewed in this way would solidify the ties she had and so make it more difficult for the world to die. The girl was the first Queen, and the first of the Royal family, bound by Magical Oath and by inheritance to Chimera, she also cast her blessing (as the Goddess) on the Warrior Clan that had protected her, so that there would be enough of her magic dwelling on the world. Every few generations the Goddess would once more incarnated herself as one of her own descendants strengthening the magic that dwelt in the veins of the Royal Family, over time the Royal Family became to governing body of Chimera, as the descendants of the Goddess they were highly respected and as they stood before their people in cases of danger they were highly regarded. Much of the magic that ran through the Royal Family tended to mean that the priority of the members went: Chimera, My Family, Me. It was very common for a member of the Royal family to put themselves in the way of danger to protect the people of their world, this tended to irritate the Warrior Clan who protected them as their priorities were more along the lines of: Royal Family, Chimera, My Family, Me.
Under the Royal Family there were Lords/ Ladies who had strong magic and close ties to their lands, and under them were a collection of Lesser Lords. 

Anyway, Cat and Ty are the only children of Queen Niomee of Rosae the Royal Family and her husband Christopher of the Clan Rose, the last child of the Rose Clan who had protected the Royal Family since the beginning. Queen Niomee is the elder child and daughter of the latest incarnation of the Goddess, she also had a younger brother. Queen Niomee was crowned at nineteen after her parents passed away, her brother was eighteen only a year younger than her, she married Christopher at twenty one, had her children at twenty-five and was murdered at twenty-eight. She was regarded as one of the most beloved Queens because of many of the reforms and alliances she made in her tenure.
The man who killed her was a tyrannous Necromancer who had been imprisoned by one of her great-great-great grandmothers Catri, great-granddaughter of the Goddess incarnation.

The story starts, possibly, when Cat and Ty are three. Their parents were just murdered along with the Royal Guards and they are attempting to escape the Palace. They are captured by one of Melchior's minions and are subsequently imprisoned in  Firthana, the Prison that had held Melchior, it was considered the worst Hell imaginable and Chimera had been created around it as the Goddess wanted assurances that it would be well guarded. There were creatures called Daemons which acted at Prison Guards and there were the inmates most of whom had been imprisoned by members of the Royal Family, enchantments were woven throughout so that prisoners couldn't die, however with Melchiors escape those began to slowly fade. Cat and Ty who at that time were called Ana and Teo, suffered rather horribly while in there and eventually escaped at eight. By then they had been greatly changed by what had happened to them and were near feral.

Anyway that's as much as I wanna write right now so. Ta ta.

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