The House of §trange

So I want a very rough outline of the Nightlands layout and maybe an overview of the dominant kingdoms, political powers, ethnic groups and notable creatures.

( Who, What, Where... )

I have an idea for a fantasy world that I have been going over in my mind for the last few months now and I want to get at least some of it down, somewhere.

( Into the dark... )

I feel I need to put the story of Nina, Tarlia, and their friends here, along with how they ended up involved in the dimension war, and how things unfolded after that.

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Malacus is older than Briieth.
Khyilenna is younger than Malacus but older than Briieth.
Andrion is younger than Briieth but older than Oraania.
Nathanius is midway between Oraania and Mareph in age.
Mimnristriqua is midway between Mareph and Cahdrisian in age.
Cahdrisian is older than Karnyimyia, but not by very much.
Kataryia is younger than Karnyimyia.

Nathanius was in adolescence when Mareph was born.
Mimnristriqua was a young adult when Cahdrisian and Karnyimyia were both born.
Karnyi was already "missing" when Kataryia was born.
Cahdrisian was still living in the royal palace when Kataryia was born. He was sent into hiding not long after.
The real reason Cahdrisian was sent into hiding is due to Koldren's political faction.
It was due to demands made about Cahdrisian that Nathanius finally ran away from home.


Plot has happened. Again.

Koldren Quaadreccorllon is dead. Old age. His wife is still alive.

Koldren's faction was the one who wanted to "mercifully" execute Oraania, and Mareph. Latter, after the end of the war, the same faction though Cahdrisian was practically as bad as Mareph, because he was half-Riftbeing. Threats were made, demands that Cahdrisian be "put down" were levelled. A few even wanted Ksalla executed for willingly laying with the Riftbeing.

It came to a head when an attempt to assassinate Cahdrisian was made, forcing Andrion to appeal to Khyilenna to take the child into protection. Even after that, threats were levelled at Khyilenna for taking the child, so Mimnristriqua took him into hiding similar to what she did with Karnyimyia. Khyilenna issued an official missive to the Keepers stating that any Keeper who attempts to attack the Nexus lands will be subject to Blood Feud between the People of the Flame and the responsible Keeper clan (and only that clan, as Khyilenna would not hold Andrion responsible for the actions of people who threatened his family, who Khyilenna considers her family as well).

It was in the aftermath of these events, and Koldren's role as one of the leaders of the faction in question (not to mention one of the voices that were saying that Cahdrisian was "defiled" and Andrion unfit to rule due to adopting him) that made Nathanius (Koldren's third son, Andrion's younger brother) leave and disappear from Keeper territories entirely, hiding in the cycle of lower Reality reincarnations.

Malacus's place in this was that he stayed silent, despite everything his father did. Both Andrion and Nathanius took this to mean he agreed with Koldren, but as Mim is starting to find out, that was not true at all. Malacus kept quiet because he knew that without Andrion to inherit the leadership of the family, Nathanius would collapse under the pressure of Koldren's closest allies, so Malacus would have to hold out, putting on a loyal face for his father so he would not be disinherited like Andrion was when he married Briieth.

Now that Koldren is gone, Malacus is slowly and carefully separating the Quaadron family from the hardline faction Koldren was involved in. It's not easy going, and Malacus's mother is constantly objecting to every move he makes.

Malacus doesn't agree with everything Andrion does, and was taken aback when Mim went and put Oraania and Karnyimyia in charge when she absconded with Andrion, but he is not speaking against Andrion anywhere near as much as Koldren used to.

It's a pity [Iphignia] is still holding the hardline against her second son, and by doing so is undermining her eldest son.

But Malacus now has a new ally in Mimnristriqua.

ETA 20/4/13: More Headcanon has happened.

Malacus was the one who made Kataryia disappear. His reason was the same as why he stayed silent - he did it to protect her from their parents. [Iphignia] was starting to raise Kataryia with all of the family prejudices and Malacus, who adored his baby sister, did not want that happening to her, so he hid her.

He did try to keep track of her but lost her when she ran into a piece of the Nexus Weapon. From there her insensible form ran into Karnyi in between reincarnations and they got tangled up and stayed so until Carol's soul crystal accident. Even then Kataryia did not regain her memory until after Koldren died. Malacus had also blocked her memory so she wouldn't try to come home, and hoping she was still out there, undid the block at his end after Koldren's funeral. It took a little while for it to take effect however - a process that may have spanned all of Nina's life (since that life marked Kataryia's separation from the Weapon as it joined with the last of it components and was then born as Tarlia), but the real effects have only become evident recently.

Bonus Plot:
In the time-travel AU, Malacus also receives future memories. He however wasn't present when Khyi and Mim did the time reversal, so he doesn't immediately understand what's happened, not until he has a chance to speak with Andrion. Mal misses Mim. They didn't have anything official up until then, but they had something going on and now Mal is coming to terms with the idea that Mim may have been his One.

Malacus is begrudgingly talking to Mimnristriqua.

This may be the start of something.


ETA 1:53 AM 2/4/13: Definitely something.

I had a sudden idea while contemplating a scene in my head.

A bit of explanation: After finally coming up with a Nathaniel 2.0 I was happy with by crossing my experimental Nathaniel with Andrion Praadeccoriam, I started to think of Nathaniel as Andrion's little brother, and even came up with a variation of his name, Nathanius Quaadron, to fit the role.
Then I put him in Riverview and ended up partnering him up with Don Lothario.

Prior to that, I'd already come up with a plot where Mortmer Goth and Bella Bachelor are avatars of Mareph and Khyilenna, though Mort is Khyi's avatar due to joke that Mim made about them swapping genders that Khyi went through with.
This was part of a plot where Mareph and Khyi get involved in their avatars' lives, and then Mareph ends up living with Mort for a while after Bella dies and can't be brought back by normal methods (see Sims 3 resurrections) while Khyi is trying to find out what is wrong.
What turns out to be wrong is that Demons tried to attack Khyi, but the genderswap actually managed to fool them, and they thought Bella was Khyi's avatar. The problem is whatever they did is still affecting Mareph, so Khyi is trying to fix that.

Meanwhile, Andrion finds out his baby brother is on the same Earth as Mort, living in Riverview, with a human boyfriend. Andri and Mareph go to see him, but while there Mareph detects the remaining traces of interdimensional travel, and faint traces of his own power and also demon power on Don. Between that and Don's reaction to Mareph's looks (hey, he and Mort are practically twins!) they decide to follow these traces back to Don's home dimension and find the version of Mortimer there (as well as reminders of Bella), who Khyi and Mareph hadn't intended to exist.

Mareph calls in Khyi, and they proceed to investigate these unauthorised alternates of their avatars, calling through the versions from Sunset Valley to merge temporarily with the Pleasantview versions (and also causing the P-view version to switch to the SV ones physically). All this happens in the presence of Nathaniel, a somewhat confused Don, a bitchy annoyed and confused Cassandra, and a confused and bemused Darren Dreamer (who's been dating Casssandra).

Turns out all the problems Khyi has been having fixing Bella has been because the enchantment using her as a conduit to drain Mareph has been linked to her P-view alternate's alien abduction and the magics that prevent her from being able to return home permanently.

So once Khyi manages to solve the problem, they all go out to spend an evening on the town, Orin, Brii, Mim, Tael, Tarlia, Nina and Jared turn up at the same club.

This isn't the problem.

The problem is the foursome of Carol/Jerry/Eric/Rachel. I'd decided that Nina is one of Rachel's incarnations, but a current incarnation of Eric has not shown up yet.

I got an idea of making Nathaniel be Eric.

Now the first problem is I am quite happy with him being with Don - I like the idea of Don settling down and mending his Casanova ways due to True Love. I don't want to go pull the proverbial rug out from under that.

The second issue is that if I went this way, it'd mean Eric has always been a lot more powerful than anyone knew, and has had his memories buried just as deeply as Karnimyia and Cahdrisian did, only I think Nathaniel would have done it to himself, because he's older than both of them - he's older than Mareph!

The problem is that despite these problems, I am still very tempted to go with it. Maybe Nathaniel is keeping things on the down low, because he does love Don, but he knows underneath that he's only got Don for a short time, while he'll always have Cahdri, Karnyi and Rach.


ETA: More Sims-induced crazy with this mess - Rach may or may not be Andrion and Nathanius's baby sister.

I made up a Quaadron family. Mother and Father Quaadron, wanker older brother, the Andri Nathan and... well I forget the name I put on her but she's an Exchange sim I named Caitie. She came with the surname Hartwood, not that in this context it applies (Caitie Hartwood could be an avatar though).

An idle theory for how she ended up as Rachel goes a little something like this:

[Caitie] was more like Andrion and Nathanius in that she was a bit of a rebel against the family, but she wasn't brave enough to walk out like her brothers did. She did go wandering every so often, to get away from the family, and while out one time, she found a piece of the Nexus doomsday weapon, and accidentally absorbed it (she didn't know what it was either). The piece sent her powers out of control throwing her across Reality and sending her into... a kind-of fugue state. Somewhere along the way her dormant spirit crossed paths with Karnyimyia and fused, getting buried deep in Karnyi.
They didn't start to divide again until the lifetime of Caroline Task, and her accident with her soul crystal.
From that point on she's been living as Rachel, thinking she only has reincarnations because she's a fragment of Karnyi.
At some unknown point of her ongoing reincarnating, she ends up gravitating to [...] Donovan, who is carrier to another piece of the weapon, [Caitie]'s piece however shifted to [her mother] before she was born as Nina. The combined section of the weapon now carried by [her mother] subtly drew in it's final piece, being carried by [Tarlia's bio father]*, giving rise to Tarlia, the living manifestation of the complete activated weapon.

* (Tarlia isn't the Morganstein of the two sisters, Nina's the Morganstein of the Donovan girls. I think Tarlia's father was a totally random office affair.)

Somewhere in the background Nina has not only gained access to her past life memories, finding out she used to be Rachel, but also gained access to [Caitie] as well.

Somewhere in the near future there is a meeting of the full Praadera Council called, where a recovered Briieth makes her first appearance since the fall of the Lock. [Caitie] appears, accompanying her eldest brother. Nathaniel catches her during a reccess and draggs her to a side room where Karnyi and Cahdrisian are waiting and there's a huge blow up because Nathanius Quaadron has just realised he's soulbond to his baby sister and the four of them need to come to terms with this. (And before they let Andrion know that his daughter is in a poly relationship with both her uncle and aunt.)


ETA 15/3/13: Quaadron names have finally been dug out:

Father - Koldren
Mother - Iphignia
Eldest Brother - Malcom
Little Sister - Katarina

Offhand, Koldren works fine. Iphignia needs to be replaced. Malcom already tentatively has Malacus. Katarina... not sure, but may be something like Kataryia.

I am fast coming to the conclusion that the story behind Jason and Evander (reincarnations of Jerry and Eric) is basically a gangster scenario, with magic added in.
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This is a side effect if the Sims. I tried to construct a new version of Nathaniel Cullen by mixing my previous reconstruction attempt with Andrion and the pre-made that Andrion was based on.

The resulting sim is not named Cullen like it's predecessor, but, in a fit of fancy, I named it Quaadron instead.

Quaadron is the family name of Andrion Praadeccoriam before he married Briieth Praadeccalla.

The side effect? Andrion now has a little brother who is just as much of a rebel against the Quaadron family as he was (probably idolizing his big brother as well). His full name is Nathanius Heilos Iys Quaadreccorilln.

He currently lives on Earth, pretending to be a normal human named Nathaniel Quaadron, and has recently gotten into a relationship with Don Lothario.

Andrion is not exactly impressed.