WIP Intro: Ashland

WIP Intro: Ashland

Genre: YA/Fantasy

POV: First person

Length: Trilogy

Status: First draft

Word count: around 18k

summary:

Whrain Ashland is a sell sword in a time of raging war and dying magic. Seemingly destined to be the notorious orphaned hero, he turns his back on his past and all dreams of glory.

Instead he becomes what everyone expects him to be… a monster. Ruthless, sadistic and utterly conscienceless, he is the perfect tool.

Traveling with his very own band of mercenaries, he lives by a single rule: Get the job done. Move on to the next.

Having an unbelievably high success rate and the reputation of staying loyal to his current employer whatsoever, Whrain soon attracts the attention of a very desperate princess.

In exchange for a fortune, Whrain and his comrades are expected to break into the most feared prison of the known world and smuggle a group of aristocrats into an occupied city. Looking at it, the payment doesn’t align with the terms, but if that’s the price of freedom, so be it.

Just one last job, right?

But when the real motives of his client are revealed, and his past catches up to him, Whrain faces the bitter truth: He has more to lose than to gain in this bargain.

  Set in medieval times, where only an ember of magic is left, and new technologies are on the rise, we follow Whrains story through his early years as an orphan, novice and later on assassin, before he becomes the leader of the countries most infamous group of mercenaries. The Kings Shadows.        

I love this!

Sphen and Magic, a pair of male gentoo penguins at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia, are the proud new dads of a 91-gram chick, the aquarium has announced.

The tiny, as-yet unnamed penguin will stay with its dads for the first 5 – 6 weeks of his life, the aquarium says. Sphen and Magic — nicknamed Sphengic — will feed the chick up to 10 times a day by regurgitation.

“Baby Sphengic has already stolen our hearts! We love watching the proud parents doting and taking turns caring for their baby chick,” Tish Hannan, Penguin Department Supervisor at the aquarium, said in a statement on Friday, one week after the happy event.

In a tweet, the aquarium says male and female gentoo penguin chicks don’t have any physical differences, and sex can only be determined by DNA testing. The penguin’s gender will be determined two months from now, the aquarium said, because drawing blood from a newborn can be dangerous for the chick.

It’s A Chick! Sydney’s Same-Sex Penguin Couple Welcome Baby

Photo: Barcroft Media/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

House D'Mon. The definition of a snake pit and they are even proud of it.... Love them🖤❤️🐍

@queenie-dragon I did a thingy😂😂😂

someone: displays the faintest amount of interest in my wips

me: 

Do you ever look at all the different stories you’ve written and see similar themes within them and then you start wondering what that means about you?

Omg I'm from Austria and though I have reread wmf in English I never even thought about translating Edeman, I thought it a made up name. Holy shit Pat😂😂

Okay, but, theory time: We have to meet another Edema Ruh troupe in Doors of Stone. We just have to. We have met one (his parents’) in NotW, who were glorified and put on a pedestal. In WMF, we meet the fake Edema Ruh, who are evil and despicable. BOTH GROUPS ARE SLAUGHTERED. Yes, the second one deserved it, but that parallel is not there by accident. We are going to meet a third, who will be more human, neither angelic or demonic. I think they will come in at the end of the frame story. That’s Kote’s happy ending. Joining the Edema Ruh again. I would love if we meet them during the story and then they show up and he joins them. All I know, is it just makes sense, one troupe for each book.