The Sons and Daughters

The Sons and Daughters follows Willis and Wynzlie and their fight against the tyrannical Red Eagles. Willis knew something had to be done, Wielder had done his best to keep this from happening again, but after he disappeared, he left the world to it's own devices. The Red Eagles had started off by making themselves sound like good guys, leveling the economic playing field, appealing to the young and working class with high minimum wages which would later cost them their jobs. They claimed to fight injustice between the different species, when there was none. They sparked a divide between Skeletons and humans that ended in the death of innocent lives on both sides. Willis watched this play out and saw how it affected him, and he realized these people who claimed to do good did more harm than good. He realized he needed to act, his parents told him stories about the Nazis during the Second Light and Shadow War, and the atrocities they committed and how evil they were, and he saw how the Red Eagles had been turning to disarmament, he knew that this was the last straw. Meanwhile, while Willis was trying to stop to the Red Eagles, Wynzlie was unearthing her father’s past, and how he was wizard before he changed his name and past. She revealed this to her mother who was just as surprised as she was, but that same day, the Red Eagles started disarming the public and had another mission to round up any individuals with a magical past or skills. The Red Eagles killed Willis’ parents, Wilson and Willow, and Wynzlie’s mother, but Wynzlie was able to escape the soldiers. Willis had started telling people that the Red Eagles were going to take over, but everyone ignored him until the Red Eagles started disarming people all over The Constant, but by then it was too late. Two Red Eagle soldiers came to Willis’ apartment to arrest him, but he fought back and was able to disarm the soldiers. He ran away and went into hiding, where he was visited by an old man. The old man gave him a tome and a rather large locket. He spent days trying to open the locket, untold he finally consulted the tome. He read the tome carefully as Red Eagle soldiers marched loudly down the streets of the Boar Kingdom capitol in their heavy boots. Marching and heiling, marching and heiling. The tome spoke of spells, cantrips, and even alchemical rituals and equations for old techs from a bygone era. But at the back of the book, in the final addition, was a spell to open the locket, and a note. The note read: "I have feared the day this spell and locket would have to be used, for it means that civilization is not yet ready to walk alone. Whatever has happened, no matter what degree of suffering have the innocent endured, it will not be in vain, someone always has always risen and fought. I have made sure of it. When magic has flowed through the veins of the underlings for so long, when someone tries to snuff out the weapon of the free, they will meet harsh resistance, as they soon will know." - The Last King of the Boar Kingdom. When Willis read this, he was flabbergasted, he had been gifted a spell by the Last King, Wielder. And he saw the note as his last command, fight. And fight he would. He used the spell to open the locket and he understood why it needed to be locked under such a spell. The locket was a magnifier, and an astute one at that, for such old craftsmanship. Inside each void of the locket was a fragment of a gem. Totaling at 6 fragments, there was a light, dark, fire, water, rock, and plant gem fragment. The fragments alone could not cast powerful spells, but together they could cast some of the most dangerous and volatile hybrid spells. He spent the better part of the week reading the tome, studying the spells, practicing as quiet as he could. He would go out during the day to buy food and to look around. He had been in the capitol before, it was considered the biggest city in the world, people of all different species, shapes, and colors gathered and traded, paying homage to the Last King. The streets he now walked felt empty, grayer, as banners flew over the streets, and as faceless soldiers marched in patrol. He was greatly saddened and angered, the world that had been saved from darkness, the light banished the shadows back into the decrepit places they crawled out of. Yet the walked again in the light of day, crushing the world under their boot. While Willis was holed up in the dark, Wynzlie journeyed to from her family home to the heart of the Pig Kingdom. She spent a night out in a small town outside the capitol, and she was visited by the same old man. He gave her a note and a journal written by Wilson on the function of Walter’s staff, but along with the diagrams and equations, there were anecdotes written by Wilson during his time with Wielder and his wagon train, and later when Walter rejoined the group in the Lost Spires. Wynzlie read the stories and was fascinated by the stories of her father, but they also wrenched her heart. She broke into tears when she read this excerpt during her studies: “I walked out into the muddied field after the battle and brought the bodies of our fallen soldiers back to Wielder. Some were chocked full of musket balls, but more had dark scorches from dark magics I recognized. They were slain by the defector, the one who replaced me.” She stopped her studies and went outside to go on a walk to collect her thoughts. The man who raised her was