Amylia's Big Plan

In January of 2022 my youngest daughter, a teenager, was being so annoying that I said to her: "Right! I'm going to write a story about an annoying teenager, name her after you, and put her through absolute Hell!" And so the story about Amylia (not actually my daughter's name, but close) was begun.  

Amylia exists in the fantasy multiverse I call the "Twelve Realms", these being separate but intersecting universes. I talk about this more in my first post on my work-in-progress "A Flight of Wyverns" which is set in the same universe as Amylia, only about a thousand years later. 

Amylia is a human but lives in a version of the Earth in which humans are not indigenous. There are, however, quite a lot of them in certain parts of the world. Typically humans crossed over when fissures occurred in the inter-realm fabric, most commonly during storms at sea. So humans tended to be thrown up on certain shores around the world, where they settled and thrived. In the map above most of the coast is dominated by humans, but the indigenous people who the humans call "tree-elves" dominate the interior. 

Amylia starts off living with her mother, a professor at the University of Sinjin, but runs away after getting in trouble at school. As a result, she goes to live with her grandfather (Hero Forge rendition above) who lives in the ruins of an ancient fortress at Greenhall, west of the coastal areas. The fortress is home to a diverse population who are mostly not human, including indigenous races but also races from other Realms, including this angry lady, below, who is Amylia's short-tempered martial arts instructor.

The word-count is presently at over 10,000 words but I have just got going, and I have bits I have put down that will come later. The advantage to this story is that it is in my mind and I can just sit down and write a bit when I want, while of my other works-in-progress "A Squire for Wolf's Keep" needs a solid block of time to change and edit, while "Roger the Wyrd" and "A Flight of Wyverns" will need me to get back into that headspace again. However, if you would like to read about the trials and tribulations of Amylia, I will certainly post some snippets here.