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houseofstrangeI have had thoughts about big plots that may exist in the Nightlands. I feel like musing on them.
I have made passing mentions in previous entries of possible coming problems. They have been rather vague as I have mostly approached the Nightlands from the perspective of a role-play setting and leaving bigger plots open to interpretation. So to address some of the big ones...
The Unseelie have been an on/off problem ever since before Nightfall. They first gained their foothold in the south, but has always sought to expand their rule into the north. They made an alliance with the Morin Kessír when they first came to the Southland and backed them up during the parts of the Sunset War that the Morin Kessír tried to interfere in. They however did not show themselves fully until a few hundred years after Nightfall, when they started trying to open Gates in numerous locations across the North and through the Elenimbér. This was fought back successfully, partly due to the alliance the Quendár have with the Seelie, due to the Seelie Queen being Quendár herself. The Unseelie would keep making attempts to gain a foothold in the North, both in conjunction with the Morin Kessír and on their own.
The Morin Kessír, as a problem sometimes linked to the Unseelie, would periodically try to cross the land-bridge, or find a way across the sea to attack the North, feeling they had a right to claim the North's rich resources to support the Black Empire's rich lifestyle (well, rich for the Kessír lords of it, but not necessarily for anyone else).
There is also a lingering resentment in both groups over Nightfall, and their perception that it was done to keep both the Morin Kessír and the Unseelie restricted, locking them in one region of the world, not letting them spread out to claim more lands. This viewpoint does reveal a lingering lack of understanding of the reason behind Nightfall that was caused by their pre-Nightfall opposition to the North.
The Empire of Men, located in the northwest of the southern continent does have a mitigating effect on the Morin Kessír and how far they can reach into the North, but even the empire does not well like the North and faintly resents them for reasons lost over time but do stem from the destruction of the Sun Empire, and a line of thought that Nightfall basically trapped them. Over 9000 years of history since Nightfall has erased the hatred of magic the Sun Empire was attacking the West over, so other reasons has replaced it in the Empire's resentment, many of the most commonly known ones tending to be shallow spurious, or a general disaffection because they are trapped between an untrusting Southern Kingdom and a distasteful Black Empire that they are reluctantly bound in magically enforced treaty with.
In both southern empires there are groups, cults, organisations that believe the solution to all their problems is finding a way to end the Night, however they do not know how Nightfall was originally caused.
The Unseelie only wish to cause chaos, terror, and pain.
Another building problem comes from the Far Lands, with the arcane trade with them coming close to hitting the limit of how much the Nightlands can produce. The Quendár already see a growing issue in how fast the Far Lands' magitech-powered industrialisation is developing, and that with demand for arcane energy likely to outstrip supply in the next 50-100 years, it may drive the Far Lands to seek to invade the Nightlands.
So in far more character-based thoughts, Elená is attacked - probably by the first scouts in the latest attempt by the Unseelie to invade the North - and goes missing, at least to her family and Ciaran.
Several year later, Ciaran, having taken up a quest to find her (knowing by his dormant but not broken soulbond that she is alive), ends up in a situation that results in him being taken into the care of a dwarven settlement in the Númëoronti (north-western mountains). It is an odd settlement, made up of dwarves that have, for some reason or another, been rejected by the majority of Dwarves in the Sunset Mountains.
While there, Ciaran finds himself drawn to the daughter-in-law of the lord of the settlement, a dwarven woman by the name of Kizár, though she is married and has a toddler daughter. Said daughter, Elenhróta, is fascinated by Ciaran, insistent on him being family. Her insistence eventually reveals that Kizár and Elená are the same person, though Kizár has amnesia - or as Elenhróta characterises it, Elená is asleep and dreaming she is Kizár.
I have made passing mentions in previous entries of possible coming problems. They have been rather vague as I have mostly approached the Nightlands from the perspective of a role-play setting and leaving bigger plots open to interpretation. So to address some of the big ones...
The Unseelie have been an on/off problem ever since before Nightfall. They first gained their foothold in the south, but has always sought to expand their rule into the north. They made an alliance with the Morin Kessír when they first came to the Southland and backed them up during the parts of the Sunset War that the Morin Kessír tried to interfere in. They however did not show themselves fully until a few hundred years after Nightfall, when they started trying to open Gates in numerous locations across the North and through the Elenimbér. This was fought back successfully, partly due to the alliance the Quendár have with the Seelie, due to the Seelie Queen being Quendár herself. The Unseelie would keep making attempts to gain a foothold in the North, both in conjunction with the Morin Kessír and on their own.
The Morin Kessír, as a problem sometimes linked to the Unseelie, would periodically try to cross the land-bridge, or find a way across the sea to attack the North, feeling they had a right to claim the North's rich resources to support the Black Empire's rich lifestyle (well, rich for the Kessír lords of it, but not necessarily for anyone else).
There is also a lingering resentment in both groups over Nightfall, and their perception that it was done to keep both the Morin Kessír and the Unseelie restricted, locking them in one region of the world, not letting them spread out to claim more lands. This viewpoint does reveal a lingering lack of understanding of the reason behind Nightfall that was caused by their pre-Nightfall opposition to the North.
The Empire of Men, located in the northwest of the southern continent does have a mitigating effect on the Morin Kessír and how far they can reach into the North, but even the empire does not well like the North and faintly resents them for reasons lost over time but do stem from the destruction of the Sun Empire, and a line of thought that Nightfall basically trapped them. Over 9000 years of history since Nightfall has erased the hatred of magic the Sun Empire was attacking the West over, so other reasons has replaced it in the Empire's resentment, many of the most commonly known ones tending to be shallow spurious, or a general disaffection because they are trapped between an untrusting Southern Kingdom and a distasteful Black Empire that they are reluctantly bound in magically enforced treaty with.
In both southern empires there are groups, cults, organisations that believe the solution to all their problems is finding a way to end the Night, however they do not know how Nightfall was originally caused.
The Unseelie only wish to cause chaos, terror, and pain.
Another building problem comes from the Far Lands, with the arcane trade with them coming close to hitting the limit of how much the Nightlands can produce. The Quendár already see a growing issue in how fast the Far Lands' magitech-powered industrialisation is developing, and that with demand for arcane energy likely to outstrip supply in the next 50-100 years, it may drive the Far Lands to seek to invade the Nightlands.
So in far more character-based thoughts, Elená is attacked - probably by the first scouts in the latest attempt by the Unseelie to invade the North - and goes missing, at least to her family and Ciaran.
Several year later, Ciaran, having taken up a quest to find her (knowing by his dormant but not broken soulbond that she is alive), ends up in a situation that results in him being taken into the care of a dwarven settlement in the Númëoronti (north-western mountains). It is an odd settlement, made up of dwarves that have, for some reason or another, been rejected by the majority of Dwarves in the Sunset Mountains.
While there, Ciaran finds himself drawn to the daughter-in-law of the lord of the settlement, a dwarven woman by the name of Kizár, though she is married and has a toddler daughter. Said daughter, Elenhróta, is fascinated by Ciaran, insistent on him being family. Her insistence eventually reveals that Kizár and Elená are the same person, though Kizár has amnesia - or as Elenhróta characterises it, Elená is asleep and dreaming she is Kizár.
