About: Shadows of Dawn Part 2
By Jessica Marie Here is the second installment about the first book in my debut novel, The Shadows of Dawn. I have finished the first draft and am currently half-way through my first round of edits. The first of many rounds, but it is coming along. I am currently moving narratives and POV’s around to create more cliffhangers between various characters’ stories (this is a multi-POV story) and to break up different story-lines more evenly throughout the novel. What is this novel about? It is a mixed genre science-fiction and fantasy titled The Shadows of Dawn. The tagline is: Magic goes through 2,000-year cycles on Esnevaria. When magic returns it plunges the planet into chaos, war, and political upheaval. This book is the first of what will be a duology. The second book with pick-up exactly where the first leaves off. It’s a story of war, chaos, political upheaval, finding faith, and found family. It is told from multiple POV’s, though my main character is Sorscha Androula. Today I’ll be exploring her adopted brother, Alasdair Atria. Alasdair Atria: He is the adopted brother to the main character, Sorscha. He is a human and came into the orphanage four years after Sorscha did. He was a toddler when he came, but Sorscha took a liking to him and adopted him immediately. They quickly bonded and considered each other siblings within a few days. They would explore, get into trouble, and navigate the orphanage together. As elves age slower than humans, Alasdair and Sorscha were considered to be in the same age group and would attend the same lessons, classes, and grew up together much like twins might. All orphans who are found on the Capital are given the surname Atria. Alasdair has often wondered who his birth parents are. He contacted the orphanage and did some personal research to try and find his birth family, but there were no records to follow to uncover his heritage. He has never told Sorscha or their adopted mother, Sarine about his having looked for his birth family. He knows they would have understood and even tried to help. But he somehow couldn’t bring himself to tell them, various anxious ideas kept him from opening up about the topic. Alasdair joined the Capital Guard at the same time as Sorscha. They attended training together, though while she desired leadership and became an Officer, specifically training. He preferred to work the rowdy night shifts. The strangest events and wildest chases seemed to happen at night and that’s exactly what he liked. Plus, he knows once he settles down, gets married, and has a few kids he’ll want the structure of the daytime shifts. To be as present at home as he can be, not wanting to miss a moment of their growing up. Alasdair is the quick-witted, snarky, jokester who does a terrible job pretending he doesn’t have the softest heart on the Capital. The Setting - Politics: Esnevaria was once ruled by royalty and nobility for much of its recorded history. The snow and forest elves preferred a more tribal lifestyle, while the humans generally organized into larger cities with power concentrated at the top. During the fall of the era of magic 2,000 years ago, when the orbiting Capital was built, the humans realized they needed the assistance of the tribal elves in order to complete the Capital. The engineers and designers were entirely human, but the Capital could not provide for itself. It needed agriculture and farming to take place on the planet below and for those goods to be ferried to the Capital. The elves were far more competent in these areas and a deal had to be brokered. If those on the Capital wished to survive, they would need to relinquish their all-encompassing power. This was the beginning of the fall of nobility. The elves demanded their leaders to be present on the Capital and to represent their interests to the nobility. If they were ignored or taken advantage of, the elves would cease provisions. This slowly eroded the concept of the nobility being the only ones wise enough to rule and this slowly permeated the human society. This led to the demand of a new form of government. Barely two hundred years ago a war was waged and the nobility fell. From the ashes was born a republic where leaders were elected by the populace. Once a month I will introduce another character. Welcome to my novel and hope you enjoy these teasers of my story, can’t wait to see you back for the next installment! Covered so far: Sorscha Androula, Main Character & The Main Setting of this novel, the Capital – Read about it here
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