A somewhat lighthearted description of the book
For my blog I figure I might as well have a somewhat lighthearted description of my book. It is also useful for introducing world building ideas and concepts needed for this kind of fantasy story. So here it is.
Bluestone: The Forest, the Path, and the River is a fantasy adventure. The story takes place mostly in the wilderness. The characters flee into the wilderness to evade evil beasts that are trying to find and kill them. It is a high fantasy story set in a world of its own with a varied landscape of forest, hills, mountains, plateaus, rivers, lakes, and a sprinkling of abandoned castles, ruins and other interesting things they explore along the way.
The story takes them through: Baedholt forest, across the Torfasten plains, up and then over the Torfasten mountain alpine heights, back down into the depths of the Wudu-Westen wilderness then along the impassable Adaelan river until forced back up unto the blue-stone plateau, and then back down through some more forest until they come out unto the meadows of the Hiliwæthe (they go to more places than this, but that would be telling too much).
The main characters are: a hunter, three soldiers, and three children. Other beings are: the Endsæta who are elf like beings with special powers; a dragon or two make an appearance; the goblin and troll like beasts have names derived from old English names for such beasts: Balewahs (baleful or wicked ones), Daedskuls (ones who do evil acts), Nitegengas (creatures that go about at night), and Deofols (evil spirit demons).
Last but not least there are some flying beasts I made up myself called the Neofogul meaning bird of prey that feeds on carrion. They can be seen here.
There is a High King who doesn’t really seem to be in control of his kingdom, and he lives far to the north. There is a gate and a bit of a wall in a gorge far to the south that is supposed to keep all the evil beasts out of the kingdom, but somehow they get through, setting the stage for the story. All in all it is an interesting fantasy jaunt through the wilderness you really should read. I think I will go into more of the world building concepts in my next blog.
Bluestone: The Forest, the Path, and the River is a fantasy adventure. The story takes place mostly in the wilderness. The characters flee into the wilderness to evade evil beasts that are trying to find and kill them. It is a high fantasy story set in a world of its own with a varied landscape of forest, hills, mountains, plateaus, rivers, lakes, and a sprinkling of abandoned castles, ruins and other interesting things they explore along the way.
The story takes them through: Baedholt forest, across the Torfasten plains, up and then over the Torfasten mountain alpine heights, back down into the depths of the Wudu-Westen wilderness then along the impassable Adaelan river until forced back up unto the blue-stone plateau, and then back down through some more forest until they come out unto the meadows of the Hiliwæthe (they go to more places than this, but that would be telling too much).
The main characters are: a hunter, three soldiers, and three children. Other beings are: the Endsæta who are elf like beings with special powers; a dragon or two make an appearance; the goblin and troll like beasts have names derived from old English names for such beasts: Balewahs (baleful or wicked ones), Daedskuls (ones who do evil acts), Nitegengas (creatures that go about at night), and Deofols (evil spirit demons).
Last but not least there are some flying beasts I made up myself called the Neofogul meaning bird of prey that feeds on carrion. They can be seen here.
There is a High King who doesn’t really seem to be in control of his kingdom, and he lives far to the north. There is a gate and a bit of a wall in a gorge far to the south that is supposed to keep all the evil beasts out of the kingdom, but somehow they get through, setting the stage for the story. All in all it is an interesting fantasy jaunt through the wilderness you really should read. I think I will go into more of the world building concepts in my next blog.
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