This that follows is an idea I believe will make Kyngdom far more meaningful. There don't seem to be over many of us left in Kyngdom. I myself didn't join in till recently. I want to give it a small but worthwhile polish, to change a very few small facts from the official story. I want, more, to streamline its viewpoint. Without a viewpoint, there is no story. I believe the way I see Kyngdom is beautiful, and key to bringing this story to a satisfying conclusion. I think it is worth enough that others see it, even if they don't want it in the end.

I can only propose, not dispose: to accept or not, is yours, fellow Kyngdomers. Perhaps you'll bear down hard and attempt to beat me down and leave me for roadkill. Perhaps you'll love my idea. But please, accept to consideration what I have to say.

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In the beginning, either before or simultaneous with Kyngdom's creation, a multiverse came into being. Earth and Kyngdom are part of it. The multiverse is a bit like the one in the Narnia series- doors can open up between universes, and certain beings can travel between them with magic, but most creatures are limited to just one. [All the above has been many times supported by Kyngdomers, who have even sent their characters into other universes.]

Now the universes all have their own origins, which, of course, differ from Kyngdom's. However, behind all these diverse origins there's a sort of figure- a Creator of Worlds, symbolically masculine. He planted the seeds that would eventually turn into the universes. I admit, this entity is my own creation, but a reasonable one. Moreover, since the Powers can do good and bad, there must be someone or something higher up than them which decides what good and bad are.

Now to the actual creation of Kyngdom. I don't differ from anyone there. The Powers came forth from a flower. There came to be at the same time Celesti- her name means "Mother Kyngdom". She is the symbolically feminine part of Kyngdom. she lives on in the actual space of Kyngdom- she is its presence. She cared for the Powers, and the Powers made things to fill that presence. You know the what each made, or if you don't you just have to go to that thread I mentioned. I might add, that it was Claaws who gave creatures free will, who made us more than automata. I say he gave us it; I do not say he made it.

And so, when they finished their labor, the Powers made seven thrones [one for Celesti, of course] and sat in them, and for many centuries the world went in order. Now, on a lower level, the level of the animals, plenty of evil things were done; but the Powers and magic creatures- there were no men- intervened and made sure that everything stayed stable, and justice was always served. So, of course, the animals learned to be good citizens, and mostly to live in harmony with each other beautiful, perfect peace reined everywhere. Then the joker entered the deck.

The Creator of Worlds opened a portal between earth and Kyngdom, and men came trough it into Kyngdom- whether by force or by their own choice, I do not know. We do know that the people who first colonized Kyngdom were ancestors of the Indians and some Russians and Chinese, which makes the date of their arrival four to three thousand years ago. As man arrived, he made a sort of cameo. He told the Powers who he was, and that he had added man into their creation. With man, he said, Kyngdom would be made perfect, and outlined a specific plan or dealing with them.

The Powers took an instant dislike to man. They saw him as corrupting the ecosystem, with his felling of trees and stark unwillingness to join the food chain. Worse, humans have a degrading effect on many forms of magic. As man's power grew, the Powers took council. Claaws hated them, saw herself as being slighted by The Creator of Worlds. She was for removing the humans entirely. The others didn't want to do something so drastic, but were sure man needed limitations that were specified against. Luni alone stuck with the Creator of Worlds. The central four decided on limitation. Luni wouldn't take it, and neither would Claaws. There was a fight. In the end, Luni and Claaws were both banished from their thrones. They put a spell on the two that made them have to stay close together, so that neither could cause trouble. In power, the two were equals, but in different ways, so, if they had a fight, both would end up dead. Thinking there was peace, the remaining Powers settled for a plan of "pruning", limiting man to certain areas.

[Note: this is the part I've changed up the most, though it still remains very close to the original. The only actual difference in facts are the Creator of World's appearance and Luni and Claaws getting stuck together. This is my last change from the official version]

But they all knew in their hearts that they had done this not out of true love for Kyngdom, but because they wanted Kyngdom their way. If they had looked, they could have seen the good things man was bringing too, technology being an important factor. When a creature does evil, the evil remains on his head, and can lead to further bad actions. When a Power does evil, it is far worse: the evil becomes its own creature, a Side-Affected Power. This as worse: an evil spreading through the whole system. Out of this conjunction of many evils there arose a terrible and powerful fiend: Jaaws.

Jaaws was like the night; the Powers did not know quite when she came. They never even knew she existed until this late resurrection. They blamed the bad things on Claaws.

The first thing Jaaws did was break the spell keeping Claaws and Luni together. Claaws flew off and wreaked havoc on any human she could find, escaping detection by the other Powers. As for Luni, Jaaws put her to sleep and hid her in a cave.

Having expended much of her power, Jaaws knew she would not be able to take on and destroy the Powers alone. She needed human help. A boy, later called Catastrophe, sought her out. Claaws had killed his family and friends, and he wanted revenge. Jaaws gave him dreams which led him into her labyrinth. There, she made him a deal: she would give him the ability to destroy the Powers if he would give her his soul. He did end up 'killing' all the Powers, and bringing chaos to Kyngdom. Claaws realized her part in the evil, before the end, and repented. That's what allowed her to set up Catastrophe and the other Side-Affected Powers to go dormant, though she herself was killed doing so.

During this time, a seemingly strange thing happened: Celesti, the one who stood for Kyngdom herself, married Catastrophe. It's been said that, if Catastrophe had withstood Jaaws, this marriage beteen man an Kyngdom would have brought peace and order, or at least given a base to keep the unruuly Powers from doing much evil. But, in he middle of fighting the Powers, Catastrophe murdered his wife. He murdered the world of Kyngdom and left it dead. At that point everything turned upsidedown. Even once the Powers and Side-Affected Powers were gone, it couldn't be at all fixed. There was confusion and extinctions, and much that was good and beautiful was lost.

But the torn spirit of Kyngdom survived. Even though magic turned black and men acted like beasts and in many places became cannibals like the Aztecs, and predators went wild and forgot the balanced civlization they came from, disintegratinginto tribal units that cared about no-one outside, and the oceans rose so as to consume one-third of Kyngdom, it survived. From time to time animals and magical beings have tried, with some success, to build a good law structure. But it always went dark in the end.

Then, three hundred years ago, a second joker was introduced to the pack. New men- technologically and culturally advanced men-were transported to Kyngdom. They were picked up bya sort of interdimensional whirlwind one day and dropped here. 

They have brought a new, flawed but stable, order to Kyngdom. they have been trying to succeed where Catastrophe failed, and mak Kyngdom their own. A lot of animals and magical beings don't like that, and have attacked them. That attacking was part of what caused the rise of BIG. BIG awoke the Powers (though Claaws and Sylvia had woken up earlier, doubtlees also due to haps ultimately caused by the new invasion). When the Powers woke up, the Side-Affected Powers woke up too. Now they're fighting over Kyngdom again. What can be the end of this conflict? Perhaps, redemption?

Thank you very much, Hazel C. I've been worried I've been making a bother of myself. I'm very glad to know you have a plan for a climax. I'm still a worried, though, on how to get rid of Jaaws. Perhaps the Powers can take her down if they all come at her together? Also, we should try getting the moving plots ordered to one end- one supreme goal the smaller battles will either win, or help win, or lose. (You'll see this sort of thing in most modern fantasy- Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, etc.)

Let's say the main goal, for the moment, is getting all the Powers together. Hasn't Claaws been killed and turned into a xylophone and sunk down to the bottom of a pit in the ocean (near the Underwater Ball)? Well, we need to get her instrument back, then! That's a good quest. And consider our other running plots: Cairan being claimed by Jaaws, the Ayearth or any other Power that's stuck being freed from the new goo, Luni being awoken, and Caastrophe trying to take Kyngdom over. All we have to do is give each of these significance to the main plot.

For instance, make Cairan have some vital power that will put a blockade on the Power's being gotten together. Make it so that if Catastrophe (who has basically sold his soul to the devil, which explains how he managed to come back) gets the Sword, the Shield and the other thing together, it'll be possible for him to destroy a Power- permanently. I don't want to monopolize, it's pretty easy to relate things to a main plot.

A couple more notes that may be helpful: my origin story does bring up a point which is highly important to what's happening now, but seems to have been ignored; that is, what caused Claaws to go bad in the first place. I mean, you don't start hating the people closest to you over nothing. If we are going to have a reconciliation of the Powers, we'd beter know what broke them apart in the first place. My contribution was that Claaws wanted to make Kyngdom her own way, thinking she deserved special treatment since she was, or at least she thought she was, the greatest of the Powers. What drove the Powers apart was her pride. If this is so, Jaaws is a living representation of that pride, who wants to remake Kyngdom into a hell where every living thing fights constantly against every other, for pride hates love [that's scary enough for yuo, I hope]. Humans I used as a catalyst for this conflict.

So that particular addition is, I would say, justifiable, because it gives Jaaws an understandable motivation and Claaws an explicit interior problem to overcome. Perhapps Jaaws knows that she won't be able to succeed in her vision with the Powers, so she wants to destroy them so that she can extend her vision over all Kyngdom, and is using Catastrophe as a puppet to help subdue it.

Now, that, as far as I know, is a completely acceptable version of what I said, which can inspire the person who is writing Jaaws. Verily, Jaaws's actions don't seem to fit into any real pattern except this, so my idea looks to me to be the best we can do and a very good best.

Lastly, there's one other thing I thought of- perhaps Claaws's redemption requires some sort of penance for the bad she did. It would definitely involve swallowing her pride, and I suppose be necessary to defeating Jaaws, or she'd never do it, and anyway it would be symbolically inappropriate. A good milestone, eh?

And thanks again, Hazel, for being so cilivized and tactful about this. I was worried I'd be hit over the head with a crowbar.

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Trixie, you're back!!! *hugs* It's so good to hear from you again!

Hazel got separated from the Elites after the Flea Market and ended up somewhat lost in the Secret Forest. She's hopeless that the Elites will ever get back together. That particular RP just started, (it's in Kyngdom Groups -> The Nocturnal thread -> last 2 pages), so it might not be too hard to join. [Sylvia and her foal are heading to the Nocturnal temple, where Lunee worshippers live, to summon Lunee. Jaaws will show up soon to kidnap the foal.]

I'll try to think of some other options to start new, though. I like the idea of it having to do with the Shield, though! Speaking of which, do you remember the Artifacts' origin? I feel like it had something to do with Jaaws.

I don't remember anyone ever coming up with the Hornshaws' backstory, so I think you could just make it up.

Again, it's good to see you, Trixie!