The Strix Mythology
In case you missed it, Ellie isn't a hunter anymore. Nope. She has a sparkly new character arc that I can't wait to talk about more, and I will, once I start posting the Nevermore world building.
I definitely needed a new story arc and a brand new and absolutely original world building, so I put myself to work to accomplish this by asking myself: What do I love? What can I bring to the literary table that's different/new?
I wanted a new vampire lore, something unseen before. Something unique.
I love Edgar Allan Poe. I love Greek Mythology.
Okay, okay, okay y'all, sooooo.
The more and more I wrote on this book series, the more and more I began to realize that I had this weird, strange, totally odd vampire-bird theme going on, thanks to my obsession with Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven from which the Evermores and the world of Nevermore was born.
Yes, vampires that were ravens and crows. Crazy! Right?
I thought so too!
But during the story, Marcus made a reveal that he was not a vampire and instead he had the misfortune of being a vampire-Evermore hybrid, which led me to the epiphany that the Evermores were not vampires.
Okay. SO what are they and how did they become Evermores? What's the story behind that?
Marcus and I decided that at some point, the Evermores used to be vampires, but, hating their existences, their leader rebirthed them into something else entirely.
(There's an entire story about how he created them into something new and different; I'll allow Marcus to explain all of that to you in the book when he's telling Eleanor about it for the first time.)
So, they became the Evermores—raven/crow shapeshifters who could heal people and keep them from dying. (But there's also limitations on that and stuff, all explained in the book.)
The Evermores shoved the real vampires (you know, the bad guys) into the shadow world where they became shadow people who've since been searching for ways to escape so they can drink blood. They, therefore, become the villains of the story. The antagonists. And cause Marcus a world of trouble because, you know, he has the misfortune of also being partly vampire and they're jealous that he's parading around Nevermore pretending to be good when he's really, really bad. They want to uprise and take down Nevermore.
Boom, Plot.
Okay, so, yeah. That was pretty cool, I thought. And it was working just fine up until today. Yes, on May 20, 2016 a brand new scene emerged wherein Eleanor came face-to-face with these shadow creatures who were once vampires. And guess what, folks? They do not look like all the other vampires that everyone else writes about. They are BIRD vampires. CROW people. Raven taloned and feather-fingered hands!
Like whaaaaaaat?!
I knew right away that what I was working with here was some sort of brand new vampire that'd never been seen before and I somehow needed an awesome legend/lore to back up my theories. I needed/wanted, more than anything, a new and original vampire mythology.
I AM SO FREAKING HAPPY ERMEGAWD, THE UNIVERSE LOVES ME.
Now introducing to you: The Strix/Striges.
