30 in 30: Day 16 & 17 - Eirwyn & Elowyn

Another pair, so I'm doing a double post yet again.

Day 16 - Eirwyn

Eirwyn is the oldest of the Seasons, having been alive for more than six hundred years. It’s extremely rare for a Season to live so long, but she and her twin sister were chosen to lead the Seasons and train the new ones in their powers.

She is the Winter Queen of the South Pole and rules Antarctica. She only ventures north for the four-year summit of the Seasons. Any person born a Season is sent to her for training.

When the Seasons start disappearing from North America she and her sister officially appoint Kaydi to lead the search for them.

She is the elder of the sisters and is strict and cold, but can be compassionate given a good enough reason to be. She is freezing wind, frost on windows, and ice.

Day 17 - Elowyn

Elowyn is the oldest of the Seasons, second only to her twin sister who was born a few minutes before her. She’s been alive for more than six hundred years. It’s extremely rare for a Season to live so long, but she and her twin sister were chosen to lead the Seasons and train the new ones in their powers.

She is the Winter Queen of the North Pole and is friends with Santa Claus. She only ventures south for the four-year summit of the Seasons. Any person who becomes a season is sent to the North Pole for training and education.

When the Seasons start disappearing from North America she and her sister officially appoint Kaydi to lead the search for them.

She is gentle and kind, despite the chill of her season. She is soft snow and warm fires on a cold night.

30 in 30: Day 14 & 15 - Aleda & Lulu

Here's another double set since they go together.

Day 14 - Aleda Liddle (Palmyverse)

Aleda is a young feline shape-shifter (a were-cat). She is the youngest daughter of a long and illustrious line of American Short-Hair Shifters specifically the Liddle branch, which settled in the area long before other pioneers came to Michigan. She’s only seven years old when she runs away from home during a bitter family feud over the theft and inheritance rights of a powerful heirloom, in order to escape the stress of the situation. She discovers the world is a harsh and strange place, having only known the security of a small sheltered shape-shifting community on the remote shores of Lake Michigan.

She is desperate to get home and in her search she meets Matilda Madison who not only helps her find her way home, but also solves the mystery of who took the heirloom and who it really belongs to. After that she and Matilda become best friends, despite the six-year age difference. Aleda helps Matilda navigate through the world of magic that’s hidden in plain sight all around.

Aleda is small, even for her age, but she is very brave and loyal. She is endlessly curious and is always asking questions and trying new things that are sometimes dangerous, but luckily her friends tend to save her from herself. She can be both impulsive and impetuous. Even in her human form she tends to hiss and growl when she gets angry, and if she’s angry or scared her hair puffs up like a cat’s tail does. Also in human form she is very agile and dexterous, able to jump, climb, and contort like a cat. She also likes shiny things and always wears the black necklace/collar her mother gave after she ran away and came home again.

Day 15 - Lulu Columba (Palmyverse)

Lulu is a bird shape-shifter (a were-dove). She is the oldest of four girls whose parents are both dead. They’re raised by their uncle with their twin male cousins. Lulu has the difficult task of keeping all the children out of trouble, which is not easy in the magical community on the shores on Lake Michigan. She was raised in Chicago, in a small magical community that spanned three blocks, and the wide wilderness of Upper Shores is both frightening and exhilarating.

She is twenty-two and should have been married by now, but she is too attached to the other children. To make additional money she is a private tutor to the rich families in the area, which is how she meets Matilda. When her sister and one of the nephews disappear there is a great commotion in Upper Shores and she asks Matilda to help her solve the mystery and reunite the lost children with their family.

Lulu is a bright, intelligent, brave, and capable woman. She is has a kind and gentle side, but can also be strict when the situation calls for it. She loves learning and teaching and has no plans to marry, but does hope to be come a teacher at the Upper Shore Academy someday.

30 in 30: Day 12 & 13 -Shemyava & Kaydi

I had a really busy weekend and wasn't able to post so here are two characters from saturday and sunday.

Day 12 - Shemyava (Destiverse)

Shemyava is the wife of Adar, the leader of the Woodland Zvarocan Tribe. They have spent their lives wandering through the forests of Liliya, and entertaining in various towns to earn any money they need. They are famous carpenters and herbalists as well as musicians and dancers.

She is as wise and brave as she is beautiful and she is nurturing and compassionate, taking care of strangers as she would her family and friends. She and Adar have two daughters – Telana and Melantha – and they are her pride and joy. One day while wandering through woods near the Grand Palace they encountered a group of bandits attacking a young girl. The tribe attacked the bandits and Shemyava swept into the fray and rescued the little girl then sent the girl with her own to daughters to run and hide until it was safe to come out.

Unfortunately the tribe was slaughtered by the bandits – killing most in the process though, and in the end only two bandits were left alive and they were captured and killed by the royal guards of Liliya. The girl turned out to be the princess of Liliya and the Queen took Shemyava’s daughters into her care and protection and the sisters became best friends with the princess. Shemyava and the others gave their lives to save them.

Day 13 - Kaydi Kariff (Palmyverse)

Kaydi is one of the Four Seasons - Autumn - and lives in Vermont, working as a substitute teacher whenever she has the time. She loves teaching elementary school children about history and English, math and science –and especially about nature.

There are fifty Seasons across the world – 12 of each on each continent except the North and South poles where a Winter Queen rules each one. They have control of the weather during their season and are generally responsible for making sure the change occurs and helping all the animals, plants, and people get ready for the next season (all in an omniscient way of course). They all gather together once every four years on February 29.

It’s during this reunion one year that some of the Seasons don’t show up. They discover that someone is kidnapping Seasons and taking away their powers in order to have dominion over North America. Kaydi, along with three seasons goes to find help and eventually Kaydi ends up kidnapped as well. She manages to pass her powers to another before she is grabbed and ends up becoming a full time teacher in her beloved small town in Vermont and is actually quite happy to no longer have the responsibility of a Season.

30 in 30: Day 11 -Vaulomia

Vaulomia is the daughter of Veauca and Lonauis and has royal blood from both sides of her family. However her mother is a dragon and her father is a fairy so both their families kicked them out for mating with each other. Vaulomia – or Mia as most people call her – is the only dragon-fairy hybrid in existence.

Her mother died within days of giving birth to her, leaving her father to raise her on his own. There are many out there who want to harm her – dragons and fairies who see her as an abomination that needs to be destroyed, or sorcerers and others who seek to gain her unique powers by draining and drinking her blood. Her father protects her with the help of Belatee, the Goddess of Fate, who took in her parents when they had nowhere to go and now gives Mia and her father sanctuary.

Mia grew up in Belatee’s palace, but she was sometimes picked on by visitors. So Belatee had a mini-mansion built on sacred land for them that requires a password to enter, and personally selected three companions to serve and teach Mia as she grows up.

Belatee insists on protecting her because Mia is one day going to save both her parents’ species when the dragons wake and the magic world goes to war with the science of mortal who are trying to rid the world of magic. Mia and other mixed race creatures similar to her (including Erion) will unite the First Race and make peace possible. Mia has a very important role to play and must be protected for that reason alone.

Unlike both her parents she cannot shift form. She was born a human and can only take human form – however she can change her size from gigantic to tiny, and can sprout either dragon wings or fairy wings depending on what size she is at the time. She is very sweet and gentle, and loves to learn new things. She’s curious and intelligent and although its rare that she gets mad, when she does she breaths fire – literally. She also glows when she gets scared.

30 in 30: Day 9 & 10 - Veauca & Lonauis

This time I'm doubling up characters because they're a pair of star-crossed lovers. (from the Destiverse)

Veauca is a dragon of the Vorchoveks clan, and the granddaughter of Rastok, the ancient patriarch of the clan. She used to be his favorite, but one day she committed a terrible crime and was banished from her home and clan forever. She fell in love with a fairy prince and became pregnant with his child. Never before – or since – has a dragon mated with a fairy, because they are on opposite ends of the magical spectrum. Dragons are one of the most powerful creatures of the First Race and are at the top of the food chain, fairies are the weakest creatures of the First Race and are basically snack food to all the other creatures. For a dragon to mate with a fairy is like a human mating with a piece of popcorn – it’s pretty much impossible.

But Veauca met Lonauis when they were both wandering the earth in human form. Veauca wanted to see the sunny islands of the sea and Lonauis wanted to see what cold and snow were like since the Fairy Lands are always green and sunny. They fell in love, not realizing at first what they other was and when they discovered the truth they no longer cared. They were both ostracized from their families and homes. Eventually they were taken in by Belatee, the Goddess of Fate, who married them in a quiet ceremony shortly before the child was due.

Both dragons and fairies lay eggs, but since they mated in human form the child was born in human form. Veauca died shortly after giving birth to a daughter they named Vaulomia. Lonauis was left to raise their only child and protect her from the those who seek to destroy her because they think she is an abomination or who wish to steal her powers for themselves.

Veauca and Lonauis are both wise, brave, gentle and kind. They are also passionate and impulsive which lead to their downfall, but neither would have traded the love of the other for anything in the world.

30 in 30: Day 7 & 8 - Hanae & Ramla Byrne

Once again I've fallen behind. Big surprise. Here's two more!

DAY 7 - HANAE

Hanae is a shape shifter, like many in the unseen magical world, but instead of changing from a human to an animal she is sort of a were-tree. She can shift between being a Cherry Blossom tree, a human, or the in between state of a human-blossom, basically a blossom fairy, though she cannot sustain that form for very long since the in-between state takes a lot of energy to remain in that form.

Hanae is very sweet, kind and gentle. She is tall and willowy with pale pink hair in her human form. She was transplanted a seedling from Japan and is over a hundred years old. She spends the autumn and winter in a hibernation state and is only awake for about six-seven months in the year. Her biggest obstacle is the sheer boredom of being a tree, so she takes human form as much as possible.

DAY 8 - RAMLA BYRNE

(a State Line Road Character)

Ramla is the oldest of three daughters born to Justin and Mirabeth Byrne – the Midwestern leaders of the Byrne Clan, prestigious sorcerers in the American magical community. Ramla is a 4^th generation Seer and is more powerful then her ancestors. She is a Head seer (she can see the future and past in dreams and visions, use telepathy and telekinesis) and has spent the majority of her twenty-six years training to become a pure and powerful Head seer so that she may be chosen as one of the seven seers to fulfill the Prophesy for the Whole.

Spoiled, bossy, and arrogant, Ramla is as obsessed with power as any of the Byrnes and sees this as her way to make the world see how special she is. However, she can only be chosen if she is destined to be one of the seven and the only one who can decide that is the mysterious Peiona, the “mother” seer.

30 in 30: Day 6 - Rastok

Rastok is the patriarch of an ancient race of dragons known as the Vorchoveks who lived deep in the icy caverns of the Traldonian Mountains. Although everyone in Traldon thinks they are merely legends and fantasy they eventually discover that Rastok and his clan did exist and they never died out, they were simply in one of their millennia-long hibernation cycles. Rastok is very old and very wise, but is also arrogant and thinks humans are little more than annoying ants with long metal sticks.