Thursday, September 22, 2011

[Fox Fire] The Lord-General




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More NaNo rough character dumps! Dautz this time, since he's definitely one of the more pivotal characters in the story. Actually, the entire plot can be traced back to one decision made by 16 year old Dautz (sorry not gonna give that way yet). So here he is; Fox's Lord and Master!

Name: Dautz Grymskal
Gender: Male
House: Grymskal
Age: 32
Occupation: Lord-General in the Imperial Army
Hair color: Dark brown
Eye color: Grey
Species: Human
Personality: Ambition, Ambition, Ambition. All of Dautz’s decisions can be traced back to his desire to get ahead in life. He wants power and prestige, but isn’t really too interested in trying to rule the world. His ambitions lie more towards getting the coveted post of Imperial Military Advisor and finally uniting the two most powerful noble houses with his marriage to Juliana Morganti (it doesn’t hurt that she’s also the emperor’s niece). He’s arrogant and not afraid to step on a few toes (or enslave an occultist) to get where he wants in life, but at the same time he will fiercely defend anything he considers his, a trait which has earned him extreme loyalty from the men he commands. Even Fox has a grudging respect for him, though the occultist still hates his guts.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

[Fox Fire] The Worldbreaker's Chains


image credit goes to Kaylink's fox maker.

Getting Ready for NaNoWriMo! I'm going to try it for the first time this year as a way to see if I can actually force myself to finish a draft of something. Here's a work-in-progress overview of my main character Fox, who is in fact, human...mostly.

Name: Foxaelion Demetrescu (AKA Foxaelion Worldbreaker, Fox)
Gender: Male House: Bound in service to House Grymskal
Age: 28 Occupation: Occultist/Informal Military Personnel/Weapon
Hair color: Black Eye color: Sea-green
Species: Human/???
Personality: He's had a pretty hard life, his "mother" was afraid of his powers growing up and at 18 he wound up in magically bound servitude to Lord-General Dautz Grymskal who uses Fox's powers to achieve great military victories. He dislikes people as a general rule and the only people he really tolerates being around for any length of time is the young Sargent assigned to him named Bo and, as much as he loathes him, Dautz. He is also deeply in love with Dautz's fiancé, Juliana, whom he had met in his teens. He has a volatile temper that he struggles to control, often heard repeating the mantra "I have self-control; I am not a monster." Fox has a sarcastic and usually morbid sense of humor.


Short Plot Synopsis:
Bound in magical servitude to a military General and caught up in both mortal and celestial politics, all Fox wants is to be free to live his own life. But with an insane half-fae changeling on the way to becoming the next Emperor of Azaelia, and the depths of his own half-trained power, Fox's struggles to break free of the chains that hold him may very well tear the world itself apart.