The Blackbird Saga

The Blackbird Saga (working title) is the series of books I'm working on. Really, I'm just working on the first volume as of now.

The story takes place in a high fantasy world. The main character is a spirit. Spirits are beings that used to be people but somehow turned into spirits (the way differs), and they need a 'vessel' to stay connected to the physical world. In most cases, this vessel is a human, and the spirit can control this human, while the original human keeps some autonomy over the body. They share it. Most spirits also have a sort of 'animal form' which is some animal, either hologram or physical or whatever, it differs a lot again, which is their 'self'.

Book I is about Oesala, one such spirits, and her new vessel, Sésṍlam. It is about their first year together, about Sésṍlam (who has been raised to become Oesala's vessel) to learn to see herself as a person worth it to be treated nicely rather than just a tool, about Oesala having to deal with her trauma of an ancient past which comes up partly because of Sésṍlam, partly because of the state her mind is in, and partly because of developments elsewhere in the world.

The second volume will be about Erundur, another spirit. The third volume will be about Oesala and Erundur's reunion after being seperated some 1400 years ago

return home

PROLOGUE

PROLOGUE: 3BM

PROLOGUE: 1143

PROLOGUE: 1547

letters

a series of letters between Oesala and Kenele

first meetings

this is a series of scenes showing the first meetings between Oesala and the other members of the Ngimonian panteon

Erundur

Ñiettaquoua

Eqquā

Kenele

Killani

Tõtelli

other stuff from the past

Oesala leaving Ancient Ngimonia

Book I: Oesala

PROLOGUE: 1561/Chapter 0: The Town of Çuopān (0%)

Chapter I: The Hatching (100%)

Chapter III: The University (20%)

Chapter IV: Ñiettaquoua (40%)

Chapter V: The Temple (100%)

Chapter VII: The Nobleman's Death (2%)

Chapter VIII: The Great Machine (0%)

EPILOGUE: 1562/Chapter X: A Voice from the Past (0%)

short gag fragment: black feathers??

Book II: Erundur

the chapters of book II are very subject to change

PROLOGUE: 1240/Chapter 0: an End to a Way of Life

Chapter I: a Hundred Battles and a Flight

Chapter II: an Unfortunate Development and a Solution

Chapter III: a New Life between the Hills

Chapter IV: an Eye among the Celestial Bodies

Chapter V: an Arrival and a Sorrowful Departure

EPILOGUE: 1563/Chapter VI: the Sister

Arrival on Ankxa (might be part of Chapter V: an Arrival and a Sorrowful Departure)

Book III: Reunion

the chapters of book III are even more subject to change. Naming these chapters is more of a wordgame for me, than planning out the story

PROLOGUE: 1284 BM/Chapter 0: ...and that Story was Nigh Forgotten

Chapter I: ...and yet, nobody asked for your martyrdom

Chapter II: ...and above all, you're unworthy of the sacrifices that were made for your sake

Chapter III: The Purpose of Power

Chapter IV: an Inevitable Escalation

...

Chapter IX: ...and in the End, the Godtrees shall Wither, the River shall Dry Up, and the Celestial Bodies shall Snuff Out, and even the Spirits shall Fade...

EPILOGUE: 1565/Chapter X: Blackbird or ...and that's All this Story is About or ...but even after the End, there is a New Beginning

lore

the world itself

magic

Ankxa and modern Ngimonian people

Ancient Ngimonia

Quoçiaolãç (the Language of Magic)

a broad overfiew of Ngimonian history

the Great Machine

Post-Scarcity Rome (PSR) (working title)

on social classes and gender in Post-Scarcity Rome, and their interaction with eachother (work in progress)

Sovã-speaking people

Sovã (language)

rest of the Northern Continent

language of the Land of the River

other things

maps

maps of Ankxa, the southern continent

the political maps of Ankxa might be inaccurate, since I made them a longggg time ago, and a lot of the worldbuilding has changed since

heightmap of Ankxa

modern political of Ankxa

political of Ankxa, a few centuries ago

maps of the northern continent

heightmap of the Qhuānian area

modern political of the Qhuānian area

political of the Qhuānian area, a few centuries ago