cters that I have created to include in Yngvild & Noren.
===== Primary Characters =====
* [[:skyss:c... eliable) narrator of the story
* [[:skyss:chars:noren]] - the title character
* [[:skyss:chars:old... n [[:skyss:places:straven]], but some of the more notable ones are:
* [[:skyss:chars:Arne|Arne the S... Old Bjorn's partner
* [[:skyss:chars:Leif]] - another member of the boat crew
* [[:skyss:chars:Bi
le of Skyss worship a pantheon of gods that they know exist. Those gods at times manifest themselves and have been known to inter-breed with mortals. Mostly those are i... -write-club-fantasy/|The Mother's Dream]].
=== Known Gods ===
I've not created an entire pantheon, I've simply used a handful of handy gods and goddesse
The ancestral home is Caer Alpin which is in the north of the mainland of [[:skyss:places:daelriata|D... th to his daughter Raonaid (15, born 759). She is not yet betrothed.
- [[:skyss:chars:daels:alpin:I... ft for university in 757 he never returned to the north. Currently Earsaid Alpin is the reader of nava... ew flagship failed to return, despite there being no reported storms or wreckage found. It was rumoure
tory Background ====
This is a web version of the notebook that has the background to my fantasy novel [[https://mybook.to/Fierce|Fierce]] (released 1 May... everything I've ever read, and loosely based on a Norse 10th/11th century blending with some ancient R... ips are more like 17th/18th century. Skyss is the northern state the main characters come from, but th
s a poor land sandwiched between mountains to its North and East, and the Sea on the West. To the sout... r in an enclave somewhere in a civilised town in another country.
===== Geography =====
{{:skyss:plac... . This name harks back to the days when there was no difference between the Daels and the Skyss, and b... uality timber for ship-building. The Daels are reknowned ship-builders, possibly more accomplished tha
ld the current Queen ([[:skyss:chars:bernicia:eleanor|Eleanor I]] - born 706, reigning since 756) die.
He is 20 years old (born 754), and is currently e... | treasury((how much money do they have right now)) | 2,459 |
==== Recent History ====
He has b... chars:daels:gilranald|Bhaltair Gilranald, Earl of Norpen]], with whom he has a strong bond) Alasdair V
d_v01.png?400|}}Bhaltair Gilranald is the Earl of Norpen, and for some time regent of Dael Riata during the minority of his cousin [[:skyss:chars:daels:alasdair_r... nt Earl's father was translated to the Earldom of Norpen, on the northernmost of the Easter Isles. This was an overtly political move by the old Queen ear
d also using clues like the solstices and the equinoxes to divide the years into three types, Long Win... starts on the first new moon after the Spring Equinox. Long Summers and Long Winter years have 13 moon... oon starts less than 12 days after the spring equinox then there's a 'Long Summer', which is always fo... Fall Moon starts within 12 days of the Autumn equinox then there is a 'Long Winter', otherwise there's
e_malfin.png?100|Malfin's rune symbol}}Malfin is known as the Goddess of the Darkness, which to the Sk... heon:aeolf]] and often each of their festivals acknowledges the other.
===== Appearance =====
Like a... n the nights are longest (and in many of the more northern parts of Skyss there is no daylight in this period). There is a secondary festival in late summ
ales of the best, and delicacies from across the known world, he is also reputed to be a spy, assassin... ng on in the city around the events involving the nobility.
==== Description ====
Aodh is a flame haired man with a pale complexion, he's solid but not fat and a little taller than average. In the right clothes he can pass as a noble. Equally he blends in well in a range of circu
===== Skyss's World =====
I've not drawn the whole world or put lots of detail in, I think it's best t... which Skyss exists}}
{{:skyss:places:skyss_world_north_hemisphere_v07_for_book_cover.png?1200 |A map of the northern hemisphere, click for the detail (this is a... were, so that I knew where the mountains and volcanoes were. After that I added in lower hills, and ma
===== The Nobles of Dael Riata =====
There are fourteen families that are Dukes or Earls of Dael Riata... skyss:chars:daels:gilranald|Gilranald]], Earls of Norpen ^ [[:skyss:chars:daels:ahearn|Ahearn]], Ear... ^ [[:skyss:other]] ^
{{tag>fantasy world-building Skyss skyss_Daels Nobles Sheilds 2023 james}}
===== Yngvild Helgasdotir ======
Yngvild is also known as Yngvild the Fierce, and she's the title and ... olished, shinier than most silver coins I'd seen. Not that I'd seen very many. The side facing me had
s a very large organisation, possibly the largest non-military one in the world. Broadly it has the fo... in full.
==== Relationships ====
=== People ===
Notable people (from a story perspective).
* [[:sk
