Disclaimer: Harry Potter and Inheritance Cycle are owned by J.K Rowling and Christopher Paolini respectively
Sadly, this story needs a bit more of disclaimer than that. . .
Alright, a bit of history concerning this story.
It all began with SynthesSurge's story called 'By Wisdom and Courage'.
During the summer of 2016 it got deleted with a message that she would one day return to pick it up again. Sadly, I was on a holiday at the time, and didn't have regular internet access, so I missed that memo. All I knew was that it was gone.
A few months later I decided to rewrite and continue that story myself – at the time I was going on the assumption that Synthesis had disappeared for good, I had no way to contact her; her account sat abandoned.
I was going completely from memory. Of course I couldn't remember anything but the broad strokes, though that ended up being a good thing in the end. Overtime, it became more and more its own thing, instead of a simple rewrite. I was, and still am, aware of where Synthesis wanted the original story to go, and I planned to go in a different direction.
On Sunday 26/02/2017 I was contacted by Synthesis, telling me that she was back and was planning to re-upload and continue her story. Because of a misunderstanding in communication I was under the impression that she wanted my story taken down. From the beginning I promised myself that if the original author were to ever ask me to stop I would do so, thus I ended up removing all the chapter minus a small AN explaining the situation.
The following day Synthesis and I spend the day trading messages back and forth, and in the end, she decided that my story was different enough to count as: 'being inspired by', instead of 'blatantly copied from'.
I was then given permission to continue my story, and I put all my chapter back up. Which is where we are now. The one person with the right to complain about this topic has given me the OK, so you do not need to do so anymore.
Here is a copy of the review that she left me here:
hey, it's Synthesis here :). Najex has done a wonderful job at this story, and I like it very much. With my return here, things went a bit fast; I formulated my request as if I wanted Najex to automatically pull the story, when in reality I just wanted to look it over at first to make sure I felt comfortable with it. I apologize the confusion that has caused, and I'm glad it worked out.
Some people were miffed, to say the last, that I got a say in this story keeping going or not at all. And I get that, especially when you love a story. However, that someone pointed out that I have no say in it, because the main storyline belongs to someone else (e.g. the author of the actual books, in this case Christopher Paolini and J. K. Rowling) is a disservice to the whole fanfiction community. Before I gave Najex the go-ahead, I simply wanted to make sure that he wasn't basically writing my story, just with different wording - as we had, in fact, discussed what i had planned in detail. But this isn't my story - this is a story that has been inspired, heavily some places, not so heavily in other places, by my story, and I feel very honoured at that.
Najex and I will continue to be in contact. He was a tremendious help when I was on the site last time, and I'm sure he will be it again this time. Hopefully I can also help him now. I'm looking forward to it.
So there you have it. That is why there are now two very similar stories being written by two different authors. Especially the earlier chapters look very similar to each other.
Here is the URL of SynthesSurge's story that is now being re-uploaded and hopefully continued s/12383390/1/By-Wisdom-and-Courage
For those who have already read By Wisdom and Courage:
Plotline for the two stories diverge around chapter Declaration and Promise so if you don't want to read the same plotline twice, please start there.
There are differences in characterization of the characters, I get that some don't want to go through 40k words to discover them so here is a summary and, of course, Spoilers!:
- BCaL Helena is a little more playful and a little less smart that BWaC Helena
- BCaL Helena is more idealistic and even more self-sacrifcing than BWaC Helena. She admitted that her life for Galbatorix is a trade she would be willing to make.
- Physically: BCaL Helena is a lot smaller and weaker than BWaC Helena, and BCaL Godric has orange eyes while BWaC Godric has blue eyes.
- BCaL Helena's does not have magical core. HP magic has no endurance limit. Helena has up until that point (chapter 10) not succeeded in getting the Ancient Language magic to work for her.
- BCaL Godric is a lot less calm and a little more… draconic then BWaC Godric.
- Eragon has show his scrying of Arya to Brom and Helena so they are aware of who she is and are actively planning to rescue her from that point onward.
- I will also say that this version will be more cannon compliant than Synthesis's version. This story is mostly about BCaL Helena's journey through the Rider War. The focus will be on how she reacts to the various book events and vice versa, not on adding more stuff. At least that is the plan. Some things will inevitably be changed of course, but overall it will follow the book plot closely with some small changes.
