A Wish for the Wicked Wishalong
I. The Past: Prologue + Chapter 1-8
🪄Chapters 1-5 (inside Reverie)
🪄Chapters 6-8 + prologue (inside Hinter palace)
I. Place
Hinter- first and most powerful queendom
Tourlais- ninth queendom, is a desert (Amantha conjured sand from there)
Hiding Place- Entente birthing place & safe house, everything made of magic, glass coffin in middle
Reverie- place that Entente reside
I. Characters
Fates of Les Soeurs
Galatea- Past of Les Soeurs
Iolanta- Present of Les Soeurs
Hectate- Future of Les Soeurs, mother of Farrow
Sisters of Entente
Farrow- main character, 6 or 7 years old
Effie – shapeshifter?
Sistine – power of music that effects mood
Selina – power of nature
Tere- controls weather
Odette- teleportation
Amantha- can teleport
Bari – 7 1/2 years old, powerful beyond years, seemingly going go power crazy
South – male, no powers, possible heir queendom/first male magic user, only guy raised in Entente
Royalty
Queen Meena- predecessor to queen Magrit
Her Roya Highness Queen Magrit- black hearted, lacks empathy and morality, she seems more defense/aggression minded like many monarchies in existence which is always/generally root of their downfall
Prince Mather- first prince born ever to queendoms, son of Queen Magrit
I. Magic
Abilities & Weaknesses
Past of Les Soeurs -see everything about someone
Present of Les Soeurs -feeling all people in present
Future of Les Soeurs -see all possible futures
Weakness of Les Seours- they can misinterpret their visions from too much information they receive and getting lost in gifts (getting lost in past/present/future)
I. Terms
Veil- magic hides Reverie from rest of world
Rookery- rebels don’t support crown p. 70-71 , some rogue magical users
Entente – the enchanted sisterhood that are advisors, confidants, leaders to the queendoms
I. Information
🪄Queendom = women run world through throne.
🪄There are Thirteen queendoms
🪄The thirteenth queendom got into a fight with the Hinter
🪄Entente and all magic users are outlaws now
🪄Black glass- strongest metal known to man and Entente, only found in Hinter, behind supreme power of Hinter, reveals the entente true faces (of course going to be used later for war against Entente/magic users), being used on walls of Hinter for war against other 12 queendoms
I. Commentary & Questions
Gender Wars: There is a setup of a gender conversation looking at the disdain for South, first male heir (Mather) existing, and the fact that men cannot sit on the throne. Outside of Entente do male magic users exist?
Fates:
Creed of EntenteWe are the Entente.
We have no fathers or mothers-only sisters and The Three-
We are defenders of destiny.
Our hearts have no function other than to serve.
Our hearts do not beat for ourselves-our hearts beat for the Hinter.
We are the Entente…now and Ever After.
🪄It is interesting looking at the Fate creed because all that – their altruism- is going to be tested. The fates could be rulers of all the queendoms, easily, with the amount of power that they possess. I could see a queen feeling threatened/not liking the amount of power they hold.
🪄Does entente have specific powers under their fate?
🪄 Is Bari going to be a villain or divide the fates community? Bari wants a wand that can bend fate itself, yikes.
🪄Why did Hectate separate Farrow from everyone else? Why her particularly? Looking at prologue quote from Galatea I assume the fates/Entente are going in dark direction that Hectate wanted Farrow to avoid.
🪄If Farrow spells lasts for a bit that means she is going to be a Fate eventually, right?
🪄Queen Magrit makes me think of Foundation ruler(s) having the same mans genetics being recycled over and over again causing the fall of the empire. There is a conversation to be had about the flaws of monarchy in general… but is there a flaw in women being the only ones in power? Isn’t there a flaw in men being the only ones in power?
🪄fate: what is fate when you can see the past, present, and future?
On creating a glossary- a glossary is mean to be created from a place of knowing everything, right? Creating a glossary can be fun it’s something I have wanted to do for a fantasy series for a minute, but it is a responsibility. I think it can feel like you are, for me, you are so on trying to keep up with all moving pieces that you are not sitting in the story. If I continue to do this, I wonder if I will continue to feel this way. I also think about projecting too much onto the story my expectations. coming up with elaborate ideas of what the story is setting up to do or could do while missing what it is/is doing.
🪄A Black castle could look cute. (insert different Black earth metals articles(s)
🪄Is South and/or Mather love interests?
🪄The structure of the story plays with the past, present, and future. We are already shown at the beginning that the queen is going to ban magic users/entente. There is also a lot of foreshadowing through the fates and characters.
🪄The most interesting thing is going to be everyone place in the future when we time jump to the present.
Current Recommendations🪄The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna 🪄 Cinderella Is dead by Kaylnn Bayron
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