I’m in the brainstorming stage at the moment…
My character grew up believing she had a pretty good life. Her family owns a guild which she works at, she has great friends, and she even believes that she is a demigod. The town she lives in knows her because the town is a small yet tight-knit community. Though there are two things that make her stand out from the others in her town. She hates winter and always feels that her “good life” isn’t all that it seems. It takes her to leave the town and her life behind to realize that her life before could be a lie. However, she returns back to her town at the age twenty-two (she left at the age eighteen) to learn she was left her grandmother’s will.
I’m trying to piece together why she really left in the first place. Something had to have happened for her to want to leave. She never got all of her memories back to a less jumbled and vague mess.
The town should’ve been stricter on her leaving, but she was able to get freed somehow. The town is a seemingly lovely place, but they hold a dark secret that ties in with a deadly national conspiracy.
The questions that I have for you all are; What kind of dark secret could a small town have that is tied to a national conspiracy? Would calling this town a front for some non-religious “cult” activity make sense?
Maybe using the word “cult” is probably wrong in this context. Sorry in advance.