Writing Challenges Days 22 - 23 #CampNanoBootCamp #TheBookIAmPlanning & #PrettyBookishChallenge

My monitor went out before I had a chance to blog the challenges for day 22. The next day, my husband discovered that the cord wasn't connected well at the back of the screen. :/ I checked the other end of the cord and never thought to check where it connected at the back of the screen. So the next three posts will be catch-up posts.

#CampNanoBootCamp Day 22 - Favorite Supporting Character; Day 23 - Scene You're Most Excited About

#TheBookIAmPlanning: Day 22 - Character's Worst Injury; Day 23 - MC's Favorite Insult

#PrettyBookishChallenge: Day 22 - WIP Antagonist Aesthetic; Day 23 - A Bookish Photo Featuring Lights

The antagonists for Over Land & Under Stone are still pretty hazy. I knew I needed some tangible antagonist (or group of them) in this story. Now I've got more than I know what to do with. But here's the basic run-down, photo 1 first from top left, clockwise:

• Jai Nisse - Jai is a Poten of Turmali City, like second in command of the Divini'I (religious leaders) of the city. Divini'I wear robes sort of across between priestly cassocks and the Emperor's red guards on Star Wars. Blue is a holy color to them and the deeper the blue, the more holy it is.
  
• Ibin Etina - She's a highly sought after assassin, hired by Jai and Shi to kill Zec.
  
• Shi Malaki - He's a member of the Ka, the law keepers of Genzet society. He's also very jealous of Zec's father (a'ada).
  
• The Drakmaugh - Imagine the bulky body and strength of a bear, the blood-thirsty nature and tenacity of a lamprey eel, and the skinless body and speed of a squid or octopus, and you've just about managed a picture of the drakmaugh. It's a denizen of the underground sewers of the overland dwellers. Without eyes, it hunts solely with it's highly developed senses of hearing and smell. It has a beautiful voice which lures the unsuspecting trespasser to its doom.
  

The second aesthetic board represents the Sekot-Mundei, which I've been calling the Sect of the Moon Deities up until this point. The photo doesn't have the moon name they are associated with but I'll add that in, giving you the moon name, the moon color, and what they are god or goddess of. Starting in the upper left and moving clockwise:

• Min - Blue Moon (also the largest and one of the guide moons) - God of the Heavens
  
• Dahl - Gray-white Moon (the smaller of the guide moons) - Goddess of Breath
  
• Go'it - Aqua Moon (second largest moon of Y'Dahnndrya) - God of Lifeblood
  
• Yur'eh - Yellow Moon - Goddess of Stone
  
• Sho'tha - Red Moon (the smallest of the moons) - Goddess of Dreams
  
• Sha'wath - eldest son of Go'it and Sho'tha - God of Shadows - lesser god
  
• Sensali - younger son of Go'it and Sho'tha - God of Beasts - lesser god
  
• Geila - youngest child of Go'it and Sho'tha - Goddess of Flora - lesser goddess
  
• Tsifi'Ra - the larger golden sun of Y'Dahnndrya - Goddess of Time
  
• Mi'Tah - the smaller silver sun of Y'Dahnndrya - Goddess of Cycles
  

I know this is a lot to take in. Just imagine trying to build your own religion from scratch. <sigh> But I'm doing my best. Time and Cycles seem so closely related, I may have to change that. But the story so far is that Min and Dahl overthrew Tsifi'Ra and Mi'Tah when they refused to allow them to do something they wanted to do (haven't ironed out what yet). Now they rule the spirit realm, along with their siblings and grand-children. That's as far as I've gotten on their back story.

As I mentioned, it's still a work in progress. This story will likely take at least two years to straighten out and get ready for publication. But I like what's coming out and how it's all coming together. And in the end, I need more info on the Sekot-Mundei for use in Surge, which I'll start writing on April 1.