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World: Siaral
Aug. 9th, 2013 05:17 pmLearn more about Siaral (at my wiki).
Stories
Characters
Maud
Jason
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
Jason walked alone along the street, not paying attention to anything other than the voices he could hear. Some of the wishes were ones he would never even contemplate fulfilling, because they were selfish or they’d affect someone else adversely, but then there were others, more heartfelt, that tugged at his empathy. Not all wishes could be granted, so he spent much of his time learning about each person he wanted to help. That was what everyone with wish magic did. Every day they heard the voices of the many races of the web and made their choices about which wishes they could grant.
When Jason was a younger he had granted wishes that he probably shouldn’t have done, the way almost everyone with the ability had, because it was harder then to look at every wish dispassionately. All granted wishes were recorded, as were the effects, so he knew that none of the wishes had done any real damage to a person or timeline, as he could hear wishes from people who had lived hundreds of years before him. There were those who could also hear wishes from people in the future. That was why some said that they knew more about the web than the walkers did, but he wasn’t sure that was necessarily true. He would admit that they probably knew more about the people of the web than the walkers did.
Each wish that was granted had an effect on the web and sometimes it wasn’t possible to know what sort of an effect it would be until it happened. Jason had seen some innocuous wishes that seemed as though they couldn’t have any major effect turning one of the worlds upside down, while there were those that could have changed the worlds and didn’t do anything much at all. No matter how much research they did there was no way to be totally sure what would happen, so all they could do was guess and hope for the best.
There were rules about the wishes they could grant, but not everyone followed them, and there was no way to keep track of everyone with wish magic. Jason had first realised he had the ability when he was thirteen, which was the normal age for the races of Siaral to gain their power. He’d thought it was likely because his mother had wish magic and it had missed his older sister. It was something she was glad of, as she’d always wanted to be a unicorn breeder. If he’d wanted to keep his ability to himself it would have been easy enough to lie, because his power didn’t show outwardly, and he didn’t have to do anything to grant wishes.
Sighing, Jason told himself to stop thinking about the things he couldn’t change. When there were rules there were always going to be people who wanted to break them and people who were doing their best to stop those rules from being broken. He had always followed the rules they were given, knowing it was for the good of the web, even though there were times he could have broken them to help people who needed it.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
36. The Elemental Birds
Sep. 25th, 2012 12:27 pmThe fifth of the five creatures created for Siaral was the elemental birds. After creating the phoenixes, and hoping they were phoenixes rather than just birds that looked like phoenixes, they wanted to work on something they believed in. They didn’t take the elemental birds from any old mythologies, instead creating what they believed to be an entirely new creature, and experimented just as much with these as they had with the dragons, unicorns and pegasi.
As with all the creatures, except the phoenixes, they began with miniature birds, around the size of finches, that could easily be kept in cages. The largest birds they created were around the size of eagles. Each bird was given the power of one element and not just the basic elements. Once there were earth, air, fire, and water birds, the Yellow family experimented with other elements. Ice birds, shadow birds, and many other were created, each with their own abilities.
The Breeders didn’t really see much of a use for the elemental birds, in the same way that the dragons, unicorns, and pegasi could be used, but they were beautiful. As with all the creatures they worked with the merchants to work out if there was any way of selling the elemental birds, and again a couple of merchants took eggs with them to see if they could be sold. As with the phoenixes they did sell, more because of their stunning looks than because of the magic they had, but it didn’t take long for people to realise that the birds were useful as well as beautiful. Water birds could be used during droughts, light birds could be used in dark places, and they became as important to the web as the other creatures.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
34.The Pegasi
Sep. 24th, 2012 09:05 pmThe third of the five creatures created for Siaral were the pegasi, the mythological flying horses. Creating the pegasi was an afterthought, a creature the fae remembered only after they began studying to create the unicorns, and chose to make them as well, because it gave the Yellow family a chance to experiment with wings.
Much less thought and work went into creating the pegasi. Most had already been done for the unicorns, so they took the information they already had and used it to create several different breeds of pegasi. Again they worked on creating a miniature form, because it was a good way testing their abilities.
Once they were on Siaral the Breeders cared as much for the pegasi as they did for the unicorns, realising that the two forms of horse were actually very different. The pegasi had much more freedom than the unicorns, because they could fly, and often explored the web alone, although they always returned home to Siaral. The merchants also appreciated the pegasi, as they were a useful form of transport around the web, and brought in good money.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
33. The Unicorns
Sep. 24th, 2012 05:55 pmThe second of the five creatures created for Siaral were the unicorns. Again inspiration was taken from human mythologies, but there was much less for the unicorns, and this interested the Yellows. Unicorns were said to be beautiful creatures, often seen only by virgins, believed once to be a real creature, until it became a human myth. In simple terms they were horses, or occasionally goats, with horns. All had magic.
First the fae in charge studied the magic of the unicorn. It was a start, but they wanted more. From the unicorns they moved onto breeds of horses, studying each one in depth to work out exactly what they could take from the horse and add to the unicorn. This was harder, as it meant understanding a creature most of the fae had never seen before, but they eventually felt they could begin.
As with the dragons they made miniature unicorns before moving onto larger beasts. In this case it was a way of making sure they’d done things right. All the unicorns had what could be called unicorn magics, especially the ability to heal, and then a breed specific power.
Finally they were passed onto the Breeders, who again were given no help by the fae. Some Breeders favoured working with the dragons, but there were those who were uncomfortable with them, and happily took on the job of breeding the unicorns. When the merchants came there were those who sold dragons and those who sold unicorns, who were favoured often by ladies, and used instead of horses because of their abilities. Young girls could be given miniature unicorns to learn how to look after creatures, in a way that children on Earth would be given a hamster or other small creature.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
32. The Dragons
Sep. 24th, 2012 05:41 pmThe first of the five creatures to be created for Siaral was the dragons. Inspiration for them was taken from human mythologies, which were often studied by the Yellow family as creatures were the only way they could experiment on their old world. They once also, thanks to the election of a Yellow Queen, got permission to create the Dragon race who lived with them on their old world until Willow left. Having more freedom meant that the creators were more experimental with the breeds of dragons they created.
All the dragons had magic, with each breed having different abilities. From the smallest dragons, a miniature breed that had the ability to teleport, to the largest, who could breathe fire like the dragons of legend were said to, they all had the magic of flight. Some were based on Eastern dragons, others were based on European dragons, a few were based on wyverns, and then there were those who came purely from one of the Yellow fae’s imagination.
Of course, once the fae left the dragons in the capable hands of the Breeders there were those that thrived and those that didn’t. Some breeds of dragon died out within a few years and probably should never have been created in the first place. The Breeders worked hard to keep the numbers of each of the surviving dragon breeds up, learning to understand the creatures that had been thrust upon them without any guidance. Merchants visited, wanting to take at least some of the dragon breeds to other worlds, and miniature dragons became a favourite with many people as messengers and companions.
Soon the Breeders were working with the merchants to make money from the creatures they had learned to love. Cross breeds were created and occassionally they had help from some of the remaining fae with the ability to make new breeds of dragons, especially the miniature dragons who couldn’t easily be breed with the larger ones.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
28. The Breeders
Sep. 20th, 2012 01:57 pmNot everyone on Siaral becomes a Breeder, but this is what the race was called by the fae, and they don’t see a reason to change it. They are a humanoid race, created purely to look after the creatures they share a world with, so they weren’t originally given any magical powers. On this planet the fae planned on the magic of the creatures being collected rather than the people. Now many of the Breeders do have one of three forms of magic that have become normal on this world, in part due to the magical volcano.
The first form of magic is wish magic. Some Breeders can grant the wishes of anyone on any world, including Taithmarin, Kankirin, and Aerith. Normally they are careful about whose wishes they grant, but occasionally they make mistakes and grant wishes that adversely affect other people, and they don’t often grant wishes for the anyone on the lost worlds. It’s possible that the Breeders with wish magic know more about the worlds of the web than the walkers.
The second form is knot magic. Using different types of knots these Breeders can tie spells into cords for later use or to sell on to people who don’t have this ability. Often these Breeders travel to other worlds to learn spells from different races to include within the knots, as they can learn almost any type of magic known in the web. Some people think that these Breeders have the most terrifying ability as they can learn all the types of magic and the walkers watch over them more closely than any of the other breeders.
The third form is scroll magic. Breeders with this ability can create magical scrolls that can be used by almost anyone on the web. Most other written magic can only be used by races with magic, but these scrolls can be used by races without magic too. They are more expensive than any other written magic, but people are happy to pay the money in order to use magic they may never have been able to use.
Each type of Breeder wears a band around their arm to tell people which type they are. Those Breeders who don’t have any of the Breeder specific magics or want to raise the magical creatures of Siaral often travel to one of the other worlds.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
35. The Phoenixes
Sep. 19th, 2012 01:42 pmThe fourth of the five creatures to be created for Siaral was the phoenixes. Another mythical creature, the Yellow family chose to create these birds because they were immortal. They had no idea if they could create an immortal creature, especially an immortal creature who died in a fire and came back to life as a young bird once more, but they were determined to try.
Surprisingly, it worked. The phoenixes the fae created didn’t live for five hundred to a thousand years before their death, but that wasn’t known until later, when the first death for those first birds happened. Most lived for around two to three hundred years before their first death and then they came back to life as a young bird. Once this was known the Breeders began working on breeding the phoenixes, even though they couldn’t imagine the phoenixes become as popular as the dragons, unicorns, or pegasi.
When the merchants first saw the phoenixes they thought the same thing, but one took a couple of phoenix eggs anyway. To everyone’s surprise they sold quickly and there were people who preferred the phoenixes as messengers, instead of using dragons. Soon they became as popular as the other creatures, being especially useful as it was later found that they could travel backwards and forwards in time.
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
