Daily Dose 4

I accidentally broke my computer so I missed a lot of daily doses.  This one will be about the second most main character, Albea!

Albea has strawberry blonde hair, she's 17 when the story starts and 19 when it ends.  Her name is said, "Al-bee" but it depends upon the person saying it, some might say, "Al-bay" so either or.  I don't want it associated with "bea" though that people use as pet names, that would be terrible and I might torch the name.  Overall I think it suits her though.

Her back story is cliche in a sense.  At a young age her parents were poor and needed some money and sold her to a local lord for payment. You would think they'd do anything to protect their daughter but her parents weren't the most decent people.  They had a child at a young age they couldn't take care of and decided to make money off it so they took it.  Her parents are never spoke of or seen again, she doesn't even remember their faces.  Albea does consider herself to be an orphan even though both her parents live, but they're 'dead' to her for what they did.

The lord she was sold to obviously was more pedophile-esque but he didn't creep on her until her younger teens.  She couldn't stand him or how he touched her so she ran away at 15.  She moved into an abandoned building in the city of Lars(the city she was born in) and began to meet other poor orphans and abandoned kids.  It didn't take her long to become motherly to them, denied of what was given to her she tried to provide to others growing up but she still treats them all as siblings. At the age of meeting Sync she has over 20 'siblings' in the slums.

In order to eat and help others eat she tried to find work but the only available options were prostitution and thievery.  Disgusted by the first option she worked on attempting to steal and often tried to mislead men.  The whole 'flirt with them until drunk and steal Marks(money) when they sleep' routine.  Eventually her skills worked up to avoid that dangerous work and just rob wish unknown ease but men still took a fancy to her.  She's not the strongest so men took advantage at times, it helped build the ability to sneak by others though.

Having a harder life for her changed a lot of how she sees the world.  She doesn't particularly agree with authority since all she has known from them in corruption but she doesn't hate them. She does try to protect others though, which sparks her desire to stick with Sync and change his mind about killing after seeing what he does to Trulent.

She grows a lot as a person but some of her also stays the same in the story, by the end she's an entirely different person.  I want to say she actually becomes a worse person at the end, but that's up to each person's interpretation.

She looks like in the picture except no hat or metal boots(leather boots instead) and no belts. or arm braces.  Instead she has a weird arm pattern that she wears for statement. Seen in the other below image.

Overall she's a weird character, she's not exactly a fun character but she's like the conscience of the group and Sync.  The way she grows kinda displays how life grows.  Changes, really.

Daily Dose 3

Today will be short.  Collo will be the next topic of discussion.

Collo is a priest from the island Nifiner's temple.  He's darker in skintone, his parents are also part of the temple, and he shaves his head monk-style.  He's sworn against violence because of his faith, although many times he comes close to breaking his vows.  Albea, Oblitus, Louis, and Sync are the only ones to actually ever fight, Asht, Collo, and Gale never do.

Collo doesn't have much for story and he joins in rather late, he lives an average life and he never fully trusts that Marisha exists.  While he is like family to the group he's still the most unfamiliar person within them.  Overall he's not very fun but has some interesting interactions.

Daily Dose 2

I missed adding yesterday so today I'll just add something random.  Or actually, I'll talk about Xilf.

Xilf is the childhood friend of Sync.  Her parents are lower-class commoners that live near the docks.  Her father works with hard labour, filling boats and warehouses.  Her mother helps at a general store every odd day.  They have a rocky marriage due to temper issues and gossip, blablabla they're never seen again.  Why?  Cause Sync can't speak to them, he can't tell them what happened.  They still believe, 4 years later, that she's traveling the world with a criminal. And if they saw him, they'd probably beat him silly for just taking her along.  Then they'd report him.

So anyway, Xilf, she doesn't particularly get along with her father, maybe ok with her mother.  But she doesn't like to go home because of the fighting and yelling, causing her to spend most of her time at Eugene's house.  Which helped fuel Sync's friendship with her, but they are already best friends so it just strengthens it.

While she's not at home, Eugene's, or running around with Sync she spends her time with her group of orphan/poor-buddy-people in the slums. All roughly the same age, similar interests, sometimes family lives.   Together they either talk or travel, sometimes play some games of pickpocket around uptown of Queth.  Sometimes they go out of city to practice swords, Xilf giving them pointers from Sync, whom is learning from Knight academy at that time.

Sync is also friends with the orphan/poor group and will often times skip his Knight training to join them in their misdemeanor endeavors.  Which causes his classes to fail and him to drop out, but that's a whole other story!

Xilf is roughly 17-18 years old at the point of her relevance to the story, has long black hair usually seen in a ponytail.  She wears a leather jacket(not modern leather jacket, something more like this jacket) with a black shirt and pants.  Overall she's pretty regular.  Hmm, she is intelligent in most cases and capable to an extent, not gifted in combat, and mostly agile.

Her and Sync became friends after Eugene kept talking Sync to the docks as a child where he met Xilf while she was helping her father unload a boat.  Of course they kept meeting and Sync got more and more used to not being formal around someone so they started to play together, then grew up together, then escaped the law together!  Yay!

And without spoiling anymore of the story I will finish here.  She's not really going to be part of the story beyond Sync talking about her so it's pretty much all unneeded information.

Daily Dose 1

So I thought I'd make daily posts of my book.  Whether it be the concept of a city, person, or rule/law, I'd like to talk about all the things that are included.

Today I think I'll pick Oblitus.

He's a character I really, really love.  My story isn't far enough to add him but I think he's one of the most interesting characters of the book.  His name is Latin for 'forgetfulness', because I originally called him Newton and kept forgetting, and his character choose to forget his past life to enjoy his new.

To describe him, hmm. He's past the age of 70 or so, maybe 80+.  Half balding makes him cut his hair short, as well as just liking it shorter.  When he travels to the city he wears a cloth mask with squares cut in it. And usually a huge baggy robe over himself.  His regular clothes change from fishnet shirts to chain-mail pants.

Oblitus was part of the Alphines army who fought against Queth in the previous war.  He was a general and survived the battle, but Queth won and deemed all soldiers who fought in the battle as war criminals.  Of course he couldn't get back to the Alphines easily so he stayed in Queth, then accidentally meeting an older woman whom he ended up marrying.  Because of that, he stayed in Queth and built their house by the river.  A waterfall was just in view of the door, that place brought great happiness to them.  Or at least, as much as a war criminal and spinster could get being together.  It was only some 20 years later his wife fell ill from a hereditary disease and Oblitus began to learn doctor's Fier techniques.  They didn't make another 10 years but Oblitus tried to continue living the same way without her.  Of course over the years of missing her he became more bitter and hard on people, but overall he was a great guy.

(slight spoilers) When he meets Sync it slightly changes him.  They really clash in personality and Oblitus is overly hard on him, but after the months of living together, they're like father and son to him.  A son he never had, nor will he ever.  Sync doesn't feel the same way, since he had a great and doting father, a hard and cold one wouldn't seem so fatherly to him.  They are close though, anyone that looks at them would think they're grandson and grandfather, and even I feel they definitely could be.  What Oblitus does for Sync is a lot for any person to give.  I contemplate if they'll meet again or if I'll end it where it will demand the most emotion.

The boots he gives him feel special to even me, and I think my future readers will really see the same relationship I do.

Language

So I've worked a few hours on a language for my book.  I doubt it will make an appearance and if it does, it won't be anything anyone will have to read.  It'll just 'be there', but I wanted to talk about it nonetheless.

So I'm working on rules, I wanted to remove a few letters and replace them with new(th, double o's new letter, so on), annnnd I wanted to change some way they look here and there.

So as you can all see, it's just random shapes, but I made many before these, these are the most graceful scribbles I created.  Remember, it is the language of a technologically-handicapped medieval world, so it is going to look a little weird. (Top are capital letters, middle is lower case letters)

The bottom line of the image reads, "I created my own language!?", and if I were to apply my language rules I have so far it would be constructed differently(right now it follows english grammer in the picture).

The reformed sentence would be:

"Language, created, my own."

Nouns being announced or addressed go first carried by an action toward them.  So if I were to say I wanted some pie, I would say, "Pie, I like it, more?" but it isn't spoken as such within the world.  It's just the written language system.  So asking for pie wouldn't matter unless I'm sending a letter for a shipment of it, and you know, I would totally do that.


So that's my language so far!  I plan to make an extremely detailed world, even if it's not included in the book. I want to share my ideas of that world and maybe a couple other people will like to see it, if not, more for me to read again!

Naming

One thing I immediately wanted to get out was the name of book.  Why or how did I pick it?

I originally wanted to call it Apocalypse because of how the story goes, then I wanted to use Throw Me to the Wolves and I Will Return Leading the Pack, but that doesn't really roll off the tongue.   My first inspiration to make this book came from the game "Tales of Vesperia", since the main character kills people because it makes things easier and I liked that about a character.  Which sounds like I'm terribly ripping off it, but actually, the name of my book is only similar in the fact they have 'tales of', it wasn't any intention to share two words but eh it happened.  I picked The Tales of Marisha because the world revolves around the Goddess, Marisha, and I'm thinking of doing a multi-series part of this universe set in different timelines.(Mayan like times, medieval, western, futuristic, apocalyptic)  So it became "The Tales of Marisha"  instead of just "Marisha".  So if anyone says, "Hey, this is similar, yes it is, I love Tales of Vesperia, but I can assure you that that's all they share in similarities. Now let's enjoy some writing!

The Tale's Beginning

The Tales of Marisha is a book I'm writing.  Besides writing it and sharing story ideas on this blog I wanted to make concept art and discuss my characters for others to read if they want to.  I might on and off make random bits of animation and comic pages of the book for the sake of just enjoying myself, stay tuned to follow the journey of creating my story!


The book takes place in a steampunk-esque medieval world filled people of various cultures and classes. There's not so much magic as there is Fier, the naturally born power to electromagnetically control the things around a person.  From a light to acquiring water, Fier is like the electricity and physics of their world.  I thought it was an interesting concept but that will be for others to discover and decide.

On to the main character! Sync, a serial killer, is out to wipe away the legacy his mother left on the world.  Through the destruction of her political laws and technological blueprints to like minded individuals who supported her ideas, Sync is destroying it all. For good measure, everything that ever mentions any of them as well.  In the process he loses all emotions, his lover, and his ability to use Fier through the failed murder of one of his victims. Now he must fight against his very world for(cliche) survival and his increasing enemies. Look at him, he doesn't look like an emotionless psychopath, but you know, stabity stab and stuff.  What will come of him, I guess you'll all find out when I finish my book.  But you can sit with me and experience the journey of creating it all!