Theme, Scripture, Music, Magic
Themes
Clal must prioritize. This is what drives sub plots. (good, better, best) Clal has to chose and will learn what is most important to his quest.
seek to understand relationships with God
seek to understand fam. relationships
How does Clal use his time?
Daily assistance from a certain source must be evident. (like prayer and scriptures) a way that he can draw strength and guidence.
Clal has stewardship and will record what he goes through. Cla must choose whom he will serve. Josh 24:15. Time must be used wisely. Clal's thoughts, words and deeds must be pure. Must rise to his responsibility and take responsibility.
Concept:
in the church the bar needed to be reaised to meet demands of the work that needs to be performed. Clal must be part of thise as well as the people that live around him on Cul.
5 steps to raise the bar:
figure out where we are
find out where we want to be – goals
find that next step
pray and ask for help
then just do it
What do I replace God with in Nilth and in the entire story meaning, what should I call the force of God? Answer: the flame; light; goodness.
…Is the absence of…
Anger is the absence of
Understanding
Love
The Holy Ghost
Hate is the absence of love
Darkness is the absence of
light.
Blindness
ingnorance
Silence is the absence of
sound
voice
Fear is the absence of hope
Blindness is the absence of sight
The earth has a voice
The earth has a light
The earth has a hope (Clal)
Despare is the absence of joy
Dumb is the absence of thought
The Light. The Flame Within.
Themes
Extinction, Addiction, Curiosity, Premonition
Theme must be opposion in all things. If there are good flowers, there must be evil flowers too. If theme is a good forest, then there must be an evil forest.
Relationship between Clal and Mother Earth
Clal must unite himself with the earth in order to save the people. He must allow love to fill his heart. His purposes must be by love.
Clal’s Changing Motives
Each book Clal should have different motives:
Fear
Duty
Glory
Selfishness
Love
To see the world/adventure
To become famous
To understand self
To choose the right
To be away from family and life problems
To Get out of the ordinary life
Goal in writing this series of books.
to weave in as much eternal truth that i can wihout the reading know it; truths that only the LDS faith believe; things that differenciate LDS beliefs from others.
The Book of Mormon
Three degrees of Glory
premortal life
families are eternal
Joseph Smith's role
the preisthood revolation
8 year old baptism
need of baptism
temple work
work for the dead
sealing power
resurrection
hiarchy of the church
family history
corruptness of the bible
apostacy and the restoration
Book Themes
Book - Physical
Book - Social
Book - Spiritual
Book - Emotional
Book - Intellectual
Other - Internal,
Physical – Book 2 – in the mountain he has to push rocks, climb, jump, it will be a harsh obsticle course.
Social – Book 1 – making lasting friendships, gains companions, the song of a people and of the earth
Spiritual – Book 4
Intellectual – Book 3
Subplots
Goal:
to leave each inner-kingdom better then it was before they came.
to help the inner-kingdom do something that they couldn't do themselves
(each book Clal finds out a little piece, bit by bit, about himself)
to place forks in the road wherel Clal will have to choose which road to take.
Religious Orientations
Book of Mormon Counter Parts
I want to represent these people and events from the Book of Mormon in The Legends of Clal:
King Benjimin, Ammon, Alma, Nephi, Captain Moroni, Moroni, Helaman
The Ships of the Brother of Jared
Nephi building a ship
Idea inspired by the above excersise:
Because I planned to sail away the people from Hanon and make Clal’s time 600 years from the voyage, maybe I can pattern the “pre-Cul Country” time like Lehi and his posterity. Maybe Ottomus or wizard 1 should really symbolize Lehi a little bit, and the take over of Womlon be like the city Jerusalem being destroyed. Hmm.
Truths to be taught in my Books
The truth about the Savior
Pre-earth life
The second coming and the paradacical glorification of the earth
There is one that has come to save the people
What is tought in the Book of Mormon that is not taught in the Bible
Temple importance
Religious Meaning
Clal picks tares from wheat and learns the lessons.
Include Jesus’ parables
Include an essence of Isaiah.
A little from all standard works.
Sword Bathed in Heaven (D&C 1:13)
Ezek. 21:3; D&C 35:14; 84:114; 85:3.
Clal and Isaiah: Isaiah Inspires Me
Isaiah is the source of much inspiration
Thoughts on Isaiah
Since the beginning of Cul Country, Wizard 2 has constantly tried to help the prevailing population to understand some things that caused the “Old World” to fall.
I want this to be similar to Isaiah
These teachings/prophecies/prophecyings will be named and be well known.
Maybe prophecying of the four peoples that become hidden from the world.
Fire People
Sky People (Elves)
Illusion People
Mountain People
The wizard knows that it will be hard for the people to accept a young boy as the keeper of the prophecy, the saving individual of their time; he will write and try to prepare them for "The One."
Isaiah 13:8 – There faces shall be as flames.
Note: The language of the Isaiahish Prophecies will have this style about it:
It will be in the voice/words/speech from the Old World: The Jewish Speech that is foreign to English speaking individuals and others.
History of the World
These scriptures tell a history of the world.
Parrable of the wheat and the tares: D&C 86
Jacob 5 – Parable of the olive tree.
Music
Theme music should only be written for the master scenes.
The Music of Clal’s Adventures
Musical Notes
Each chapter will have a theme song
Full scores of music are better than just a melody of a tune
Make fables, stories, legends, myths, traditions.
Use pictures, songs, poems, music, paintings, sculptures, things found in nature.
Magic
Magic ... Elf life force... Meld....... Element........men nature
Magic in Illia
There are different types of magic. If one person knows magic, this doesn’t mean that they know all magic, just the type of magic that they use.
- Magic within Clal and the earth
- Dark and evil magic
- Trivial magic
- Plant/nature based magic
- The binding magic that was used to banish.
I want magic in my world to be different than the typical magic. I want, instead of different words to be used like in Harry Potter, but that you have to understand the purpose of the type of magic where it becomes a more intimate experience to cast the spell.
The Character of the Nature Magic
Perhaps there is a wizard who knows some nature magic. He lives in a field, or so they say, but really, the plants that are growing are plant stems above ground but, when he beckons them, they pull up out of the ground an become beds, chairs, walls of a house, and even his food.
Clal’s Powers
There are many things that are activated through out the control only by “The One”.
The Arches of Amnber
The cliff of the dawning of time
The corradore to the heart of the earth
The sword
The growth of plants and life
Passage ways
Magical activations.
Basically, Clal finds out that his was given powers and learns how to use them.
What is my stories deep magic?
The Legends of Clal
All legends are really false on Cul. No one is able to prove them correct. Yet, by Clal’s powers the pathway to each Legend is uncovered and unlocked. This is what makes Clal so special; he has the power to unleash, the power to undo. For example:
Book 1: By Clal the winds inside the crevis of an island picks up and carries them away. (The song of nature).
Book 2: A doorway is uncovered and a cave is revealed by magic where no other individual would have been able to do that.
Book 3:
Book 4: Clal walks on water right into the kingdom of Nilth.
Is it wise to make Clal’s magic fallacious as the banished counter it with a distorted version of the magic?