Lianna Gourmos
Writing and Creatives
HISTORY
Learn the old wives tales, legends, and pivotal events of my novel's world's history.
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THE EARTHEN RAID
Around 1126, witches were able to create a portal to the "Right Side" (human world), and there, they raided human supplies and stole plenty of information. The witches were particularly fond of koi fish, and they claimed plenty and brought them to live in the Life Origin. They brought over philosophical works, ancient artifacts, and machinery, and to this day, humans will never know some of their history because of the thieving witches. Because their prevalence, the two languages of Latin and Japanese were picked up b witches. Latin being a dying language, witches believed they were “saving” this language they found so beautiful. and so, they wished to take it home with them and nourish its potential. This is how Curufin , the Witch World's native language, was established, and would become its mother tongue, However, as time passed and English began to become the main language of the human world, witches followed suit, English being much easier to learn. Witches established shippers (witches who travel between worlds), and continued to retrieve information and new technology from the human world up until the main Auculet portal closed in 2006–free raiding stopped, and only certain shippers could go through the Valdian portal. The few humans that know about shippers and the raids believe witches to be heartless thieves, “stealing our life’s work, and pretending it’s theirs.” What humans do not know is that the witches actually admire and worship human advancements.
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HISTORICAL FIGURES
Cale and Hattie Ozel, “The Travelers”, were a newly married couple, and the first witches to enter the portal between the human and witch worlds. They traveled the human world together for years, and returned with maps, as well as information on every single country established at the time. This is how witches started to establish race and ethnicity in their culture. The Ozels also brought some humans back with them, initiating not-full (part-witch, part-human) births in the Witch World. Their entrance to the human world, which they named "the Right Side", is what started the Earthen Raid.
THE APPRENTICE AND HER SKETCHER
In 1225, an old astrolabe maker worked in the Shadow Origin. He regulated all the production, and his young apprentice/taken-in child, who was an orphan, helped him through it all. She became in charge of transporting the astrolabes to the time origin when she got a bit older. One of her trips was bringing the time palace its new astrolabe for them to display in the main tower. She personally delivered it, and as she brought it into the tower, she caught a man, sat on the floor, sketching on parchment. The apprentice asked the man where to leave the astrolabe, and to this, the man requested that the apprentice help him assemble it. The apprentice and the sketcher worked in silence until the apprentice caught sight of the drawing on the ground. She asked about it, and the sketcher told her that it’s an invention. When he asked if she liked it, she said she did. The sketcher explained that his invention was a better astrolabe, one that didn’t need a sun or moon. This sketch? An early version of a modern clock. After their meeting, the apprentice had learned that the sketcher was a Time Descendant, the current ruling Descendant’s son. The two began to meet in secret to design the invention, which they called the “no-stro”. With his design skills and her knowledge on astrolabes, the two were able to create a simple and early model of the no-stro. They of course fell in love, wed, and had children, who got passed the knowledge and worked on the no-stro further. Though the no-stro wasn’t perfected until a few decades later, by their great grandchildren. Modern no-stros are still used in the Origins, while the original idea was pitched to the Opposite Side in the 1800s and then brought to the human world and presented by witches in the 1900s. A man named Peter Henlein took all the credit, and called the no-stro “the clock”. The term is used in the osor today, but in the origins, they are still called no-stros...though they work exactly the same as clocks. This story is not so much a legend, but it’s classified as such because it’s often told as an entertainment story.
THE PEARL ROBBER
Legend has it that during the early 1800s, there was a witch who became known as “The Pearl Robber”. A notorious female killer, she collected teeth as a side hobby. The rumor was that she had enough lovers to replace all her teeth. She would take one of hers out, replace it with one of her partner’s, then kill them. Her last lover before she committed suicide is said to be the one who turned her in--and dumped all her collected teeth into the opposite sea. It’s tragic, really; they were said to be the only one she truly loved--she did not take their teeth. Instead, she ripped out the last one of her own and burned it, leaving her with one missing tooth. She is said to roam as a ghost and collect the teeth of witches when she finds them. Many think her to be the Witch World's version of the tooth fairy, but she is definitely real. Witches put their lost teeth under their pillows as humans do, but they're gone in the morning with no exchange. Parents lie and tell their children that they took them and there is no need to fear, but they know that the pearl robber definitely came around, and that their own parents lied to them as well, years ago.