Hey guys!
Okay, it's time for another story from me, whether you're ready for it or not. It's a Game of Thrones inspired AtLA Zutara fiction that, I have to admit, I'm really freaking proud of! It's complicated, LONG, and has a lot of twists and turns. All I have to say is BE PATIENT WHERE THE ZUTARA IS CONCERNED, I want to do it properly...they can't meet, fall in love, and live happily ever after in the first five minutes, you know? This IS GoT inspired, after all.
However, the mistakes I've made in the past, I'm going to try and avoid this time. I realised that uploading Abaccus in one go made for a lot of typos, uploading errors, and it didn't allow you guys to interact with me, and my stories, like you should be able to.
So, what I want to do this time is really get you guys involved. I'm going to do what my favourite author (Mrs Pettyfer) did with The Black Games Trilogy (which, by the way, is the greatest Trilogy of all time) and do a characters Q&A, so you can get a better understanding of the OOC's, OC's and Canon Characters' feelings in different situations. So, just review/message me with a question "Katara, how did you feel when -this- happened? What do you think of -this person-" etc. As well as this, I'll answer any questions you have about the previous chapter in the next one I post. Sound helpful? (If it doesn't, wait till the influx of characters gets involved, then you'll have a few questions!)
If you're in this, you're in it for the long haul…I'm considering making it a Trilogy, as I've already mapped out so many things that it might be needed.
I'm going to attempt to update once/twice a week whilst I'm back from University, and really put some effort into this. Now, if you've read GoT then please don't take this too literally, just the basic premise and a few basic little tid-bits have been taken so that I can warp it all together with my mind. This isn't really a crossover. If anything's unclear, please let me know.
As for the language, and the usage of High Valyrian, I will always reveal what is said when you need to know…so don't worry about trying to find out what it means.
Please, let me know what you think, ask me your questions, and enjoy the story!
LivingInACasket
A Game of Thrones; Valar Morghulis
Long ago, the four Kingdom's lived together in harmony; the Kingdom of Fire, the Kingdom of Air, the Kingdom of Earth and the Kingdom of Water. The elements represented their contribution to the world, what they upheld and cared for. A percentage of each population gifted with the talents of the Gods to fulfil their duty. The Kingdom of Fire would ensure the rising and setting of the sun, the day and night of this world. The Kingdom of Air controlled the seasons, the skies their homeland, they oversaw the coming and going of summer, spring, autumn and winter. The Kingdom of Earth cared for the land, the life, the trees and nature, shifting entire continents to restore peace in times of need. The Kingdom of water controlled the life-giving essence of the world; storms quieted, rivers flowing through every corner, the sea life caught to sustain the world. Everything changed when these duties were neglected in a time of consciousness and greed.
Fire Lord Azulon called for a time of eternal sun, where his firebenders were at the pique of their strength, seeing no need for his people to ever be shroud in darkness and be weakened. Those who thrived in the moonlight, the Kingdom of Water, were outraged and looked to the Gods for answers. With a failed plea, only silence greeting them, they raged war on the Kingdom of Fire…but the power of the sun was too great, and into a new kind of darkness, they fell.
The unbalance of water to the Kingdom of Fire brought on a time of famine, of death and disease. Driven mad with the suffering of his people, Fire Lord Azulon captured members of the Kingdom of Water, enslaving them to funnel fresh water to his kingdom, depriving the Kingdom of Air of their life-giving substance.
The Kingdom of Air kept the world in a state of eternal winter, weakening the Kingdom of Fire's sun warriors. The winter caused death to much of the life that the Kingdom of Earth, the largest Kingdom, cared for…and the world entered into a bloody war, staining their Earth red.
The Gods turned their back on the Kingdoms, the pain of betrayal too much for them to bear. In this time, the Earth came near to destroying itself, and only one action could bring the world back into control – not harmony, not balance, but control.
Fire Lord Azulon harnessed the power of the sun to his firebenders, casting the world into darkness, but his Kingdom into power. Slaying the Kingdom of Air in their beds, the seasons shifted by the remaining airbender to the summer, with a promise of survival, before being slaughtered mercilessly by the Fire Lord himself.
The Kingdom of Fire enslaved the world to restore a resemblance of the balance that had once graced the Earth, but the seasons never changed again. The Kingdom of Air had fallen in the massacre. A final parting action from the Gods was the removal of the gifts once given to each Kingdom, of the sun from the firebenders, and the control of the elements, light and dark, was no longer within their power…but the world remained theirs.
And so, the world entered an eternal summer…a summer that bought life to the Earth, and its inhabitants, stealing away the ethereal power from the beings upon it. The Earth could sustain itself, but would never be as it once was when harmony was real.