This is my nanowrimo novel page. It's a loose sequel to the novel I wrote last year. But this one has to be better, damn it. I'm aiming to actually finish the story (and not just skim along in a panic on the last two days to an abrupt sketchy ending at 50K words.)
That's what I said last year and that's what I'm saying this year. But I mean it this time! Since I can't keep focused for much more than a month at a time, this year my story will probably be shorter (in order to be more or less finished in November).
I didn't kill everyone off last time, so I'm using them again. Yay.
Word count: 36155
1) Fey (unlike humans and elves) are an r-selected weedy race. Each of them has thousands if not millions of offspring (most never make it to adulthood). How did they get this way? I think a magical virus started it (a Curse or a Song), infecting magically charged humans and changing them, way back when. Once it happened, the survivors are resistant to further infections of that exact nature.
2) If humans and fey have magic, so do the other lifeforms. No "Only humans can do X!" nonsense. The magic manifests differently, of course, but animals (or plants) would use the magic for the same sort of stuff they use anything else.
3) The list of political systems in wikipedia was amusing to read. Did my fey randomly decide to play Romans for a few centuries?