#AprilAdventure #Redspinet
This is going to be the first time everyone hears about the future characters in this series because talking about only one with this question should be a crime.
Redspinet is a 7 book series about 6 different main characters who join up in the final book.
#AntagonistApril #Redspinet
The first antagonist Veyr meets is Warden Adrien Thorne. He's the first major face of Coldstone's power, and he immediately lets Veyr (and the the other prisoners) know exactly what they're in for.
#AprilWorldbuilders #Redspinet
Swordbreak gets its water from the lake it was built around. It has a lake port, so it makes sense that the city draws on that water for transport, industry, and everyday use.
Coldstone gets water imported in. For staff. The prisoners drink local aether laden water.
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
Veyr and his sister/auditor arguing over the danger of pushing systems to the edge.
I love their dynamic. If only it didn't end.
#AprilWorldbuilders #Redspinet
If we're talking the city that Veyr grew up in, not the prison he spends the book in:
The local government is imperial, under the sovereign Delemmak Gadlinion. In practice, that rule seems to flow through ministries, regulators, auditors, prison wardens, and...
#AntagonistApril #Redspinet
Named? No. Intentionally.
But organized? Oh yes.
They interact in a number of ways, step one is get their target to reveal their godpiece. They might not even know they have it yet. But it's easy enough to trigger. (Easiest way is by trying to kill them with aether...
#AprilAdventure #Redspinet
Each book is in a different place, but the one I'm working on starts starts in Swordbreak, but specifically, it starts in the Arclight Conduit Facility, where Veyr works as head engineer, inside a city that runs on refined Aether (solid magic).
#AntagonistApril #Redspinet
Each novel in the series has one main antagonist. That antagonist may be working by themself or might have a posse.
However. The real antagonist is the government and specifically the team built to hunt down those with godpieces in them.
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
I somehow did not use the word fool until yesterday, so perfect timing
#MarchWorldbuilders #Redspinet
1/ The dominant ethic is imperial economics: worth = productivity. Good = compliant. Safety = funded. Suffering = acceptable overhead. Institutions treat empathy as inefficiency. Public virtue is optics.
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
I don't have original, but I do have first, and that's close enough for me.
TW: death and the mc not caring about it, as well as dehumanization of workers in a factory/power plant setting
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
Closest I've got is sovereign, which isn't used in quite the same way, but at the same time it is, Delemmak just uses that as their title, but they are a dictator.
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
I'm working on book 2 of my Redspinet series, so back to the previously scheduled magipunk corrupt government. This time with a truly despicable main character.
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
Maybe it's a stretch, but in a magitech world, science doesn't really come up as a concept. So instead have a bit with knowledge (the only synonym I had) that's about the science of oppression.
#Febchantment #Redspinet
Most of the cast in book 1 (and all the books in this series in all honesty) can use magic. But the main cast:
Fira (MC): Uses aether practically as a healer. But their real magic comes from the fragment of Vortanor in them. They can feel escalation points before...
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
The Xopis Empire is at its core a dictatorship posing as a monarchy. There are councils and power groups, but they exist mostly to advice, compete, and take blame. Any real authority stays strictly with the sovereign.
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
Empire courts don't exist to find the truth. They exist to make outcomes look legitimate. THere are no juries. Verdicts come from appointed adjudicators who answer upward, not outward. A "trial" feels like an audit. The real question is rarely "did you do it"...
#Febchantment #Redspinet
1/? Another long post because there's a lot here:
Law and magic are intrinsically tangled because aether is everywhere. Most people can do small, practical aether work, cleaning grime off tools, warming a cup, sealing a tear in cloth, nudging a stubborn latch. ...
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
2 for 1 on the word today. Some might say that's some great value. 🥁
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
In a local sense, that would be the imperial police and route security. On an empire wide scale, that is the Fliwarn, the empire's very corrupt military force. They are the ones who decide how and when laws apply.
#Febchantment #Redspinet
Day 16: I'm back with another two answers.
Aether: Aether's power is in its ability to change the rules of the world for a long time.
You do something, anything, long enough it can become permanent until someone stronger comes by. Whether that's memory work or wards...
#WIPsnips #Redspinet
Poor Fira, having to balance knowing what's coming with wanting to stop it, and having everyone they know and love trust them to stop it.
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
I almost never go back and do sunday's (my day off social media) but omg does it and omg do I want to walk about them. I'm going to try to limit this to a thread of 7, but who knows with how I ramble. This will be in no specific order after the Celestial Convergence
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
Right now? Not very easily. They were cut off the same time the gods disappeared. Those selected by the universe for god magic can if/when they use the god magic to the point of full crash. Before the sundering, you could go to temples...
#Febchantment #Redspinet
For aether magic, you need aether. Luckily its everywhere, but aether crystals, or anything with aether embedded in it, in order to cast something more powerful, but you better have containment or stabilizer meds at hand.
God magic? Nothing, but it comes with...
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
Vahl is the antagonist of this novel. He is a captain sent to this village to terrorize them for unknown reasons (to the village he knows why).
Fun fact: This is also the only use of the word select somehow.
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
Not in this book. But Tarrin borders a lake. It's mentioned a few times. However, a future book is about a water elemental, sort of, and her hometown and the ocean she now lives by plays a large role. I don't have much planned out about that yet though.
#Febchantment #Redspinet
This is the first time god magic is used in this series. It's not intentional by any means, but it shows how well it resists aether magic.
#WIPSnips #Redspinet
Cw for systemic cruelty and blatant murder of innocents.
So turns out, I do not use the word redeem, or any of its synonyms in a way that means redeem. So here is a snippet of the backstory of why Fira needs to redeem themself.
Fira isn't a good person, they just want to be.
#FebruaryWorldbuilders #Redspinet
I have one majorly notable forest that is a major landscape in one of the books in this series. I could go on forever about the forest itself (the trees are pink. It's one of the few places divine magic still functions and no one knows why) but, the flora!
