4. Allies and Enemies within the Thirteen families

With the help of Elizabeth Barrette I’ve created an allies and enemies list for the thirteen families. As I’ve said before the magics that is beside the family colour is their specialisation, which doesn’t mean they are unable to do other magics, but does depend on who their allies and enemies are. If you take the Yellow family as an example you will often find that some members can create inanimate objects, thanks to a close relationship with the Blue family, but they are unlikely to find a member with the ability to use writing magic as they view the Black family as enemies.

Once the World Creation Council is created some of the fae find their ties to their family loosening and instead ally with the Council, which is why many went on to join the World Walkers Council when it was created. However family ties are still the most important thing to most of the fae living on Athare and soon after the families come together to make the decision that their best plan of action is to create new worlds to use as magic gathering devices they find themselves uncomfortable with the same idea, so they split into smaller settlements allowing themselves greater control over who they spend time with. The WCC and the WWC have their bases in the original settlement the fae created.

Yellow (creates animate objects) – allies: blue; orange; brown
enemies: white; black; grey

Blue (creates inanimate objects) – allies: yellow; green; white
enemies: brown; silver; gold

Green (door magic) – allies: blue; white; brown
enemies: orange; yellow; purple

White (mechnical magic) – allies: blue; green; black
enemies: yellow; brown; silver

Brown (dream magic) – allies: green; red; orange
enemies: blue; white; purple

Red (enchantment) – allies: brown; purple; orange
enemies: Mab; black; white

Purple (potions) – allies: red; orange; silver
enemies: gold; Mab; white

Black (writing magic) – allies: white; brown; Mab
enemies: yellow; silver; grey

Silver (elemental magic) – allies: yellow; brown; purple
enemies: Mab; red; black

Gold (time) – allies: green; orange; silver
enemies: purple; grey; Mab

Grey (stone) – allies: Mab; white; black
enemies: orange; purple; gold

Orange (transformational magic) – allies: red; brown; purple
enemies: blue; white; grey

Mab (paper) – allies: black; orange; blue
enemies: gold; silver; purple

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

Character Profiling

Today I’ve been looking online at some character profiling questionnaires and they really haven’t helped at all. Instead I feel like I have less of an idea about what I want to do with my character profiles than I did before. With the number of characters I have I need to make a start on profiling them, but I’m not entirely sure how I want to do it, because I could mix and match my options or just focus on one way of writing the profiles.

One thing I’ve been thinking about is whether I do them in first person or third person. All of my fiction is in third person, although I once wrote everything in first, so I think doing the profiles in first would give an interesting insight into the characters. However then I need to think about how I want to do it. I could interview them, which seems a little weird, so I don’t think I’d do that (especially as I’m awful at thinking up questions); I could have my readers interview them after writing a short introductory post; or I could just write a post.

If I do it in third person I can use the profiles, although I think a lot of them are pretty generic, and I’d have to work out some of my own questions for almost all of my collections. Take, as an example, the World Walkers collection. I’d need home world; current world; travelling ability; and all sorts of other things, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like the World Walkers collection. There are stories where people travel between worlds, but I don’t think those worlds were ever created to gather magic.

No matter what I’d like some input. Would anyone enjoy interviewing my characters? If I write a profile what would you like to see in it? Anything right now is going to be very helpful, because I’m really not sure what to do with this.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.