Authors note
Hello thank you for clicking on my story, this makes me happy. This first chapter is all an AN not a chapter so you can just skip this or you can read some of my explanations as to why what is the way it is. First before i yet too far i wan to say i have about 87 of this story mapped out, that will make the story go faster, but there still is that 13 and to get that 13 i need some help, I do not own all of the tamora Pierce books, so if some one could run through the books and give me an explanation of all other countries mentioned in the books besides the Yamani, Copper Islanders and the Scanran cultures, also if there is any good explanation of Shang Training i would love to hear about it, that will come in to picture later :) It would be even more amazing if you could tell me a bit about the gods, any mentioned in detail in the books that are not mentioned in this fic.
The pairings in this FanFic, besides the OC's which will take main stage. Are those listed in the books, or heavily hinted at;
Alanna/George, Jon/Thayet, Kel/Dom, Daine/Numair
For the characters i have created, if you have a pairing you would like, i would gladly see what i could do, I have firm plans for all of them but it's nice to get the plans concrete.
Some of the origanal charaters may seem different from the book but i contribute this to time passing and charaters maturing, in modern times it have been estimated that we do not stop maturing until we turn 30, and even after this we continue to grow, but this is my justification, though i will try to get the charaters as close to the book as possible.
The names of the main charaters came after much thought, though some of the other pages names (edlin, blysse, Darien) come from a random book i happened to have nearby.
Aranna (Alanna, Alianne) but also because there is a video game i play, Dungeon Siege, Legends of Aranna, so it's not just a moment of stupidity.
Newal (newat) was a moment of dumbness think New wall or KneeWall
Dunavai is just i name i like Dunia is said DOON A (the 'a' is hard not soft) and Dunie is a hard e sound
Junila is a dumb name i hate it but they are twins, what am i supposed to do about it same spelling guide as for Dunia
Saralynn of NorthCliff, is another dumb moment for me, i didn't remember that Numair and Daine's child's name is Sarralyn, It comes from the name of my big sis, who is amazing
Kalisa (soft 'k' sound then Lisa) is a cousin, i like the name, her younger brother who will make an apperance later is based on another cuz
Jalisa (the Lisa is not as pronounced in this name) was the name of an person who went to my school, she was amazing adn is totally the bases for this character