I could not consciously track back the first time I had actually created anything that pertained to this "World". To make a guess, it'd have to be during my time of obsession for the late Robert Jordan's
Wheel of Time.
From there, I had coined up one of the terms used in the series : darkfriend. Until now, I do not wish to let it go. I appreciated the concept of Robert Jordan's story a fair lot, and from this point on, the term shall be used as a tribute to the man who sparked my interest in creating a world of fantasy where light and darkness exist.
The story began... well, the pebble of creation began rolling when I tried to join an informal competition created by the school's newly birthed anime club
(which lasted for only a year and a half? There was so much of a mess in the club, till now I feel so indebted and guilty to one of it's members, a fellow classmate). We were asked to create characters for which may be used as the cast for the club's proposed newsletter. There was the earliest place I could trace the creation of one of my prized posession :
Makira the Blue Raven. There are little voices in my head that suggests an earlier birth of him, but i could not remember anything else, thus I guess this is as good a place as any to start.
I remember that is was at this time that I, the person with the creativity of a walnut, decided what he wears, and the whole green-black theme of his clothings XD Till now, when he's not wearing "casual", it's still his clothes^^
Makira was my obsession for a good 3 years before I created another story and was attached to someone else there, but that is out of the topic for this lj.
Anyway, since the birth of Makira, I gave him a story to live in. A while after that, he had a past, and then a post story. At the same time, I also created a legendary character in his world, Arashi, who wrote the book of Tempest. Arashi lived long before the Makira's time, and it was in Arashi's story that Darkfriends first came into play, as Annex, the son of the Daemon King. From there on, I believe, the structure of the world began to be born. It began with a random bitmap drawing of a map. It was possibly lost in a data crash that required the wipeout of my hard drive, but till now, I still have an inkling of a memory on how the map looked, and the few continents that was in there. This, I shall try to recreate in the near future.
Again, it's been around 8 years and I do not remember much, but my own personal persona : Lina Evaela A'rel came into being as a darkfriend, some while after the creation of Annex. I believe after that Makira's post story came into being as well. Post story meaning that it occured after the story for which Makira had originally been used in. Lina was an important character there. She was given a half sibling, after which her father and family line and past was created. A "man" modeled after my high school crush (the time I was writing those stories) was created for her back then. He never lasted. And then, a doggy boy was created and given to her in her background stories. As with people who are not supposed to appear in the present time, he was doomed to be killed. However his birth sparked the creation of a whole clan of dog/wolf-people called Kanien/Kani who are able to form a strong bond with their predestined "soulmates" called aisseur, much like a loyal hound and its master.
With the creation of the Kani, stories were made to cash in on the "bonds" and the possible predicaments that could have occured in the history of the clan. It gave birth to a Kani legend : Stacatto. I believe this was back when I started playing dotHack, as I'm sure the name came from one of Kite's skills there.
After that, although it's closer to the present, the creation timeline are messed up since there were other stories I worked on in my head at leisure (plus, the deepening of existing stories or replays of my favourite scenes), but I realised that for most parts I focused merely on Kani stories.
There was, for instance, the story of Rain. Rain was a Kani who's utter love for his aisseur spun a story rivalling Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately for him, although the story was there, it was ages before his aiseur, and the people who are in his story are even given names and real faces.
And in the randomness of the time I started writing on Rain and his aisseur, I wrote a one scene that manifested into another incident in the history of darkfriends and kani alike. Ah, it was such a mess. So epic, so many ideas, but such a messy mess with plot holes gaping wondering how will I explain why so-and-so happened.
I left it alone and did other things, but in the end when I looked back at this world that's been walking with me for the past 8 years at least, I realise that there was just too many undecided facts, gaping loopholes, that what I'd like to do is just revamp it, so all the little pieces fits in, so that no one is left forgotten, so that things that happened could be linked to each other for believable reasons...
I want to organize things again, and let the World stand strong. Let it be able to show itself to everyone else just how substantial it is, instead of having ragged moth eaten clothes on, and a body to rival a decimated hound.
So that is the purpose of this journal. Organization, revamption, and the records of my thoughts on the things. Along with a wiki that I may update on a less regular basis as an "official" version.
I am not doing this for the money. Nor am I doing this so that someone else could steal and get rich from it. I am doing it because my creations are like my own children. Half the time they may even be like the imaginary friends speaking to me in my head. I want them to have something they can proudly stand on. A world with a history and a basis.
I also want to make up to Makira. I've made him journey places unmentioned. I've taken everything he holds dear away, taken him out of his world and made him journey in others I've created out of my own selfishness. I feel that it's high time I do something that would make me feel like I've tried to please him too. If only by refurbishing the world that he was born in.
I hope I can do this a little actively. I really hope I could.
Here's to hoping.