===== 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... rawn.
From the political boundaries I made some notes for each of the countries/states/major cities
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 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
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 summer when the darkness returns to the northern parts of Skyss known as 'First Night'. Malf
/|The Mother's Dream]].
=== Known Gods ===
I've not created an entire pantheon, I've simply used a h... re real. People have met them when they manifest (not so recently, they tend not to manifest except under extreme conditions - all the pantheons have made... ivine parent. They aren’t immortal, but they tend not to get ill, and live for a very long time unless
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... eak several languages and pitch both low-born and noble and everywhere in between.
==== Relationshi
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... is in Kronstadt.
* [[:skyss:chars:Radulfr]] - not met, but he's a Hero involved in the government
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
===== 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]] ^
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s a poor land sandwiched between mountains to its North and East, and the Sea on the West. To the sout... . This name harks back to the days when there was no difference between the Daels and the Skyss, and b... stand the ice often found in the waters off their Northern Cape.
===== People =====
Dael Riata is ... oimhe]], was forced to abdicate by a coalition of nobles. The [[:skyss:chars:daels:nobles|main nobles
| 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... tive of his elder cousin, and claims that were it not for his regency then the kingdom wouldn't be in ... s have formally sworn allegiance to the King, and none are currently under arms within Dael Riata.
=
d_v01.png?400|}}Bhaltair Gilranald is the Earl of Norpen, and for some time regent of Dael Riata durin... 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... ons.
The seat of the Earl is the walled city of Norpen, a very densely populated stone built haven f
