Crest of Souls is my newest story, and you can find it below or above in both author’s notes! Thank you
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Hi…
First of all I’d like to thank the small reader base that have stuck with my little world till now, I’m really grateful that you kept coming back to read a new chapter of Ravenswood whenever it updates. I’ve never had a greater feeling than when I see those red notifications and my follower numbers increase, but I’ve come to say that I’ll be dropping this story.
The thing is I initially planned for a rewrite to make it of better quality, but after a lot of thinking I just don’t believe it will do well even after the rewrite. It’s a world I love, one I already planned out for at least 3 books, but sadly I won’t be seeing it all the way.
There’s a saying that authors should write what they love, and I really did write this story because I loved it and the world, but reception also gives me joy, and sadly this story lacks on that reception part. I tried my best to pump out chapters hoping I would reach to the ones who’ll love this world as much as I do, and yes I did reach out to a reader base, but still I just don’t have fun writing this story any longer. I’ve burnt myself out and I struggle to keep both my readers and I entertained.
Now future plans might have another change, so I might one day come back to complete it and maybe publish it as the actual traditional fantasy it’s meant to be, but that’ll have to wait,
I’m really glad you read this story and followed me on this journey, it was not a waste. It helped nurture my writing and improve me better and now I can use that experience to make my next story better.
I hope you forgive me for this, and I hope you join me on the next journey I’m about to embark on. I’ll try my very best not to mess up again.
Regards, Five.
Also; down below is everything I’d planned for the story if you’re interested. It’s kind of rough, but it gets the plot point across.
Plot and ending
Flynn claymore is a Ravenswood. His mother was Sargon’s sister, she was impregnated by her father one night when he was drunk. Flynn was given to the Claymore family at birth and told them to never let it be known of Flynn’s true heritage. Flynn found out his heritage the night his mother died and he’s trying to destroy the Ravenswood family by taking the throne for himself. Melisandre is working with Flynn. She hated the Ravenswood because she saw Sargon kill her mother the night the hidden witches were trying to escape. His father had ordered the massacre.
Jon’s father reading a story about kings and transmigration to him and telling him how life is all about adapting to whatever scenario he ends up in.
Flynn lied to Melisandre about the reason he killed Zephyr. He killed him because he was hurting and wanted to get him out of the way quickly, but when he saw Zephyr back and without his memories, he was happy and at the same time sad that he’ll have to kill him all over again.
Melisandre’s mother (she could see premonitions once she touches the person) told Sargon about Zephyr before she died. Melisandre was hiding but she was later caught. The premonition she told the king was seen by Melisandre in a dream and it was more vivid than any she’d ever seen. She touched Melisandre while she was sleeping and saw the premonition with her daughter.
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Flynn killed Zephyr by poisoning his drinking water stylishly when he came to his room on the day of the coronation. Melisandre resurrected him when she came to deliver milk for his nerves.
The old Zephyr was the one that killed their father, and on a night he was drunk he told him why he crowned him the prince and he was considering changing his decision and declaring Dante. Zephyr is two-faced
Zephyr and Jon are linked. Transmigrators can only transmigrate into bodies they have connections with.
Harry’s father was a lord, but when he is branded as a poacher, he loses all his titles. Lord Varyn Bolton was the one that reported him and that was how he became a lord. It was all a plan set by Ophelia to put Lord Varyn in the council.
Jon fighting not to lose himself to Zephyr’s rage and madness. And one day in the library the grand savant will tell him to accept the other Zephyr while handing him the diary of the first transmigrator: Morcant. The grand savant found out from the council meetings questions he was asking, the leather tome, and his doubled exhaustion.
Thalia is Jon’s mother reincarnation. She was devastated when her son died. She trusted him but she was too scared and weak to fight for her son, so she apologized. When she died and reincarnated into Thalia’s body, she chose to be strong this time.
Audrey was pregnant when the final war was about to begin. Zephyr left for war
Zephyr is the descendant of a dragon. When his father was a child, during a trip to the north, he had found a dragon and nurtured it in secret. He and Everard’s father were friends and they bonded with the dragon, and named them in norse; they made a pact with the dragon because they couldn’t take them back: “if we don’t come back for you, our children will, I believe they shall be conquerors, so when they come, fly and for them sing your songs of fire.” Zephyr and Everard.
Witches were banished by Aeron the II. The black death happened after Melisandre’s death.
In the south, the king (from the rebellion side) killed his uncle (Zephyr’s real dad) and took over the throne. They prepared for dragons on the notion that his uncle used to tell them about it.
Jon’s past: Jon’s father died during his job when he tried to rescue his co-worker from a collapsing building, the owner of the building covered the incident up and didn’t compensate the families for the loss of their loved ones. He always told Jon to help people in need. Jon tried to follow his father’s ways and it caused troubles for his family. His mother had become devastated after his father’s death and their average life turned into one of poverty. But Jon tried to keep smiling during the day and at night he usually bawled his eyes out, until there was no more tears left. He died when trying to rescue people from a burning building he was in.
Jon (16) rescued a girl from a car hitting her, but he was framed for causing the accident because the person in the car was the son of a high ranking person and his friends, and saying his son caused an accident would tarnish his image.
Jon had sought answers so much only twice in his life; the second being the death of Zephyr and the first being...
Damon does during the war of the four kingdoms when he’s captured, and taken to the red snake river to be beheaded.
Dante, Aria and Ophelia remain while Damon leaves and stirs up war, but in truth Ophelia was plotting. Damon would drag Zephyr out of the castle during war and she would win them the war by upstaging the castle from within. A kingsknight was placed around her to watch her every moves so she had her daughter frequent the garden instead where Damon’s letters came. (More frequent interactions between Aria and Thaddeus) Dante is the one that saved Thaddeus and Thalia’s lives when Aria later summons up the courage to tell him what her mother’s letters bore.
Lord Bertram helped Damon to kill the savant and his family. The first son escaped, but lost the fingers on his right hand. He joins Damon during war as his meatboy (butcher) while he tries to kill him. The boy had become a silent man.
Dante finds out about Melisandre’s capture because of the spy he put on Dante.
The real Zephyr and the grand savant, they both killed Sargon. The grand savant made the poison for Zephyr.
Olly is the one that rides against Thalia. Olly and Thaddeus’ enmity.
A girl and Thaddeus will get accustomed and he’ll have to kill her to join the guild. (It was their process)
Harry’s mother calls him “my little wild boy”
Ser Gale’s words: “If you choose to fight then you must have the will to fight.”
Ser Aaron began saying “M’Grace” because of his interaction with a commoner best friend.
Aria and Brynden. The guard holds a grudge against Aria because he lost his job and his mother died because of it. He was in it for money and he blamed Aria and Ophelia so much he wanted to kill them. He’ll come back to try to assassinate her, Thaddeus is the one that saves her then.
Aria and Maurin. She did not plead for him when he was about to die in vol 3
Zephyr killing Dante along with his family before the letter Dante had written for him and kept in his cloak arrived. Dante had written a letter telling him of why he had stabbed him and told Harry not to touch or dispose the cloak hoping Zephyr would see the letter when he woke. But he missed it and went to the north and from the north he went to take back the castle at once. A maid saw the letter later, but before it reached him he had beheaded Dante. It broke Zephyr.
Sargon was the one that made Crescent moon for Ser Gale.
Ending: After Zephyr wins the war, Flynn usurps the throne by stabbing him behind his back, then proceeding to raid the kingdom and prove his claim to the throne (50-100 survived the war, Roland and Thaddeus, and the rest were claymores). Audrey was giving birth to their 4th child during this period; Zephyr dying as his child was born.
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Crest of Souls is my newest story, and you can find it below or above in both author’s notes! Thank you