NaNo! · 4:46am Oct 26th, 2020

I will be participating in NaNo this year. No pony stories. The challenge:

To win NaNoWriMo, participants must write an average of approximately 1,667 words per day (69 per hour, 1.2 per minute) in November to reach the goal of 50,000 words written toward a novel.

I'm going to be write a story of destiny (cliché) that is manifested in the color of one's eyes. Destiny, or personality, easily visible to everyone. They say that one's eyes are a window into the person's soul. You can follow my progress on my page. The summary of the story is below.

Summary

Eyes can tell a lot about a person. In the world of Thumantia a person can not escape their eyes. Charming people have blue eyes, and many of them become merchants. Those with royal blood have purple irises, warriors possess white, magicians green, and commoners have brown. Rarely seen are yellow eyes, because they are the sign of a coward, or a cheater, or liar, and sadly, they are the last color eyes many unfortunate souls see before they are killed by an assassin.

Red eyes exist, but not inside the kingdoms. The dark knights of old are said to have red eyes, and it is those with white or green eyes who are to protect the commoners from the red darkness. That is what the great academies are for; training green eyed magicians and white eyed warriors to protect the people, even in the eras of peace, to ensure that they either stay peaceful, or a war is stopped before it happens.

It has been over a millennia since Thumantia has had a war of the red eyes. The kingdoms still maintain training academies, but the enemies of the kingdoms are no longer only those with red eyes. The legends have become just that, legends, and many doubt red eyes exist anymore, if they ever did at all.

The relationships between kings and queens are of little concern to most citizens and their brown eyes, especially for farmers like Drahk. That is, until he wakes up one morning, and the impossible happens to the little farming village he lives in. The eyes staring back at him in the mirror are not the same brown ones he went to bed with.

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