Character Bio: Skye
This is the first in a series of character bios for our new trilogy Earth and Sky. The first book, entitled On Wings of Air is schedule for release in the autumn of this year, and we thought we’d start out by introducing some of the characters readers will be seeing in the book. Look for a new post some time in the near future announcing the exact date of the book’s release!
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Skye is one of the two main characters in our Earth and Sky Trilogy. The trilogy was initially conceived as as single book situated in a world with two main races of people. The Skychildren, living in their homes on huge mountains, far above the surface of the world, share a mutual enmity with the Groundbreathers, a people who have an affinity for the earth beneath their feelings. Since the dawn of time, the two peoples have fought with one another, carrying on the antagonistic relationship between their gods, Celesta of the Skychildren and Terrain of the Groundbreathers. The story centers around a tale of forbidden love of a young sky prince for a ground princess. It has since been greatly expanded from there, encompassing the further adventures of Skye and Tierra.
Skye is a proud young prince, intelligent and loyal, yet proud and impulsive. He is the only child of his father, King Tempest, and he is the heir to the throne, though he shares a rocky relationship with his father. His mother died some years before the beginning of On Wings of Air.
Tall and fair like all his people, Skye is a young man among a people who are long lived. Possessing the typical short blond hair of his people, Skye is considered by most to be handsome, his attention sought by many ladies of the sky realm. He is not overly bulky, instead possessing a lean frame with deceptive strength and agility.
Like all of his people, Skye possesses the power to command the air currents of the sky in which he lives. He is a gifted pilot of the skiffs his kind use for the transportation of goods and passengers, he can lift himself up in the winds to soar over the surface of the world, and he is skilled with the bow and arrow which is the weapon of choice among his people. In addition, as a Skychild he is able to direct the weather to the extent that he can call lightning out of a cloud overhead. Skye is not an adversary to be taken lightly.
In the first few chapters of the book, Skye’s relationship with his father and the Seneschal, are explored and we see him grapple with his father’s intransigence and the Seneschal’s plotting. While his struggles with his father are well-known, he shares a more antagonistic relationship with the Seneschal whom Skye utterly despises. In some manner it seems to Skye that the Seneschal seems to exert some form of control over his father, and his political maneuverings leave Skye questioning his intentions.
Skye’s pride and sense of his own honor serve as the compass around which his entire life revolves, so it is utterly unexpected when a Groundbreather princess is able to make the walls he has built up crumble around him. He is forced to recognize that the people he has always hated may actually have some worthy qualities.
