The Millennium Saga Book One: Firebreathers - a (second) formal WIP intro
Goddesses, I’m tired. It hits me like one of the trains that rumble through the industrial quarter, roars into view just long enough to warn me before I’m crushed beneath the weight of steel and momentum. Before I’m smudged away, stuck to the heels of the Fire mages that never get to go home like a pitch stain on the bottom of a shoe.
It hits me, and the weight that settles into my soul is almost unbearable when it does.
With slumping shoulders and exhaustion weighing my steps, I tug my cloak tighter to stave off the remnant chill in the air, and begin my trek down the root towards the harbor. Towards home.
Genre: High Fantasy, Steampunk
Target Audience: New Adult/Adult
POV: First Person Present, Multi-POV
Blend Pitch: Avatar: the Last Airbender x Red Rising x The Search for WondLa
Themes: Anti-Imperialism, trauma and recovery, the pitfall of idolization, identity, stigma surrounding mental illness, and the differences between vengeance, atonement, and justice.
Ember Timber has grown up with one disaster after another painting the backdrop of their life, and it’s left them and the remainder of their family struggling to keep their grip on the frayed edges of Ehlven society they call home—the poverty-stricken and over-policed streets of Aree, to be exact.
They’re not the only one struggling, and they are certainly not the only one on the verge of teaching the negligent Citylord that his power is tenuous at best.
The rebels call themselves the Firebreathers, decorated in the holy triangles of the Goddess of Change. They are numerous, and kind, and lead in part by the banished descendant of one of the Eternal Three.
When Ember picks from the wrong–or rather, perfect–pocket more than once, they find an in to this rebellion. An in to stability, help, kindness. An in to safety.
And just when they think they’ve found their footing, the world calls their bluff, whisking them into involvement of a much grander scale than they ever wanted.
Being the descendant of an Eternal, after all, is not protection in itself. Being friendly with one, even less so.
And none of that matters when the woman who would slaughter her own grandchildren if it was deemed a fitting punishment holds the title of General, and is sent to deal with rebellion.
Edits are complete at 158k words, and I have begun the process of querying as of November, 2022!
The first edits of book two, Echoseers, are complete at 146k words, and drafting for book three, Goddess-Touched, is underway.
Character overviews are behind the cut!
THE TAGLIST FOR THIS WIP SPECIFICALLY HAS BEEN RETIRED; IF YOU WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THE STORY, I WILL PUT YOU ON THE MILLENNIUM SAGA TAGLIST, WHICH INCLUDES CONTENT AND SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 2+.
