I shall try my best.
(This is not in the story and I wrote this on the fly/just winged it)
It’s like staring, staring in the blackest void, where the only light is an eerie red. An unsettling red, that gives you the absolute despair. The eye, those piercing red eyes, resemble pools of blood glistening in the darkness, is enough to make anyone quiver. The creature has an unsettling mist that surrounds and morphs in shape. The creature appears to be melting the more you stare, the mist makes it even more surreal. The creature might appear to be melting, but it is not. The longer you stare, the horse-like appearance becomes more apparent.
Is it a horse or a demonic entity that resembles a horse? The pitch black skin, the dark red eyes, the black mist, and melting yet unsettling appearance.
So much melting, so much mist, and so little time to get away.
It requires a lot of focus and control of her anxiety to accomplish but she can eventually do it. It just takes a while because of her ever-present anxiety.
Felians are the people that have cat-like abilities especially stealth
Felians, because of their stealth and great skills in strategy and fighting, are made into soldiers most of the time and also serve the royals a.k.a the Avians
Not all Avians like Felians. Felians are also a dying race.
Rats are just talking rats…no they do have nature-based magick XD I just didn’t give them a special name. The most prominent rat family is the Mosspetal family.
Scurries are the talking rodents other than rats like flying squirrels, mice, squirrels, chipmunks, etc. They all live together in a giant clan situation.
There are also deer people, giants, and talking snakes.
lol, thanks XD Yeah, I let my imagine run as wild as it wants to for this one.
Earthland is our world. Everything is normal there.
Wodeland is a fantasy land where talking animals live in a fairytale-esque environment. The most powerful were humans with wings a.k.a Avians. But Wodeland is kind of broken up now because the Avians lost power when both the king and queen got tricked by the evil entity, the Rat King, and got their souls sucked out.
Anyway, the way to go to Wodeland is by a portal. But only the royals and a specific talking rat family have the magical powers to open it. You go through a foresty tunnel and then come out of a spout made of stone. The spout is one of a giant kettle-shaped cliff. If you miss the right chance, hot boiling water begins to come out of the stone spout to create a boiling hot lake below it. This prevents unwanted followers to not follow anyone into Wodeland while the portal door closes.
Yeah, that’s the first introduction to quirky Wodeland.
The main castle is in a valley/crater situation but also on top of a hill. The Rat King lives in the courtyard. Sometimes tentacles would burst out of it and go hunt for souls in the surrounding towns. Preferably magical souls.
There’s a unique area called Agval which is owned by one of the princes of Wodeland. It’s a bunch of floating rocks with cabins on them and bridges connecting the rocks. The prince, in his childhood, called the bridges “suspenders” and since, the name has stuck. The Avians temporarily live here.
Another weird place is a land called Aardenland which used to be owned by the Avian royalty as part of Wodeland now it’s like another country. Aardenland used to be a beautiful wood, but it’s currently a dry desert-like area with termite-like dirt buildings where talking rodents and snakes have forts and battlements. Talking snakes do not eat talking rodents.
I think that’s most of the weird places that appear in the story.
There is no current ruler of Wodeland. Which is a problem, yes
His soul lives inside of a clay giant. In other words, he’s mostly dead.
Yes. Not until the climax chapters does she get a tiny bit of handle on it.
They WERE royalty. Rat royalty. But then Avians took over. This was way before Marcus’ time. Probably his great grandfather was the one who took Wodeland from the royal Mosspetal rats. The royal rats would have been Bethany’s great grandparents.
It is a complementary novel to Between Roses which takes place in the same world with one recurring character.
Yes, it does. It is explained that after ten years in Wodeland, five years would have passed in Earthland. There’s 365 days in a year. 24 hours in a day. It’s the same as Earthland, but everything feels slow in Wodeland.
Great descriptions! I got that it’s a creepy thing. I actually have an idea now if I were to draw it.
