SD part Fifteen

The entire idea for Windweaver all started with the creation of the sentient double-bladed scythe that the character Faith would receive in book 2 of the original series I started working on when she would become the MC of the book after being rescued by her brother who was the MC in book 1.

When I was flushing out the backstory for the sentient weapon, I wanted to know more about her and how her soul ended up in the weapon. This turned into a seed that developed into its own story that I wanted to tell. Around the same time I had come up with and written Elwin’s Banishment about an elf who turned into a wolf and helped the light god fight off the dark god. I did not write this with the intention of turning it into my magic system origin tale, but it just turned out that way. Five years after I wrote this short story, I went back and wrote part 2, Elwin’s Last Stand. The true birth of my magic system came out which sets me up for the next story in the timeline of my world.

This brings us to Windweaver which takes place around 25,000 years after the events of Elwin’s Last Stand. That may look like a very long time, but to an elf, it is only around 100 elf generations. During those 100 generations, the magic that was gifted to the elven race grew and became more sophisticated and commonplace.

The one link that I have been trying to figure out is how the elf inside the weapon became an expert in the weapon fighting style. Yes, many of her former wielders between her first transformation and when Faith finds her gave the elf more knowledge, but I needed more, and today when I was writing Chapter 5 of Windweaver, I got it.

She is the one who developed and crafted the first scythe, granted one made of ice and not metal yet. She crafted the double-sided version later, but at the time, she could only handle the one with her right arm broken during the fight. Chapter six will be her fight against another dark mage. This one will be her first necromancer.

Dark mages in general are elves who have the magic gift of the light god but are corrupted by the dark god who still exists. Necromancy became a huge factor in the fight during the last Dark War in Elwin’s Last Stand, so it is fitting that his newest dark faction elf warriors would be able to harness the power he wielded by tapping into the magic they have at their disposal.