I Started A New Story... After Starting Another New Story | armine's Blog

...Sometimes it happens like that. I was going along with Count von Degenfeld's story, he lives in the Tyrol and he met the Bamberg (Bavarian) socialite that he will eventually become engaged to; I got a bunch of ideas for her character a couple of weeks ago (while doing an overnight shift), and I was pretty excited about diving into this new project. But the this past weekend, I don't know what happened - I was sitting down and trying to work on it and it was like, the wheels of my head just stopped, and I started getting ideas for a completely different story. This new one is much darker than the other one; it takes place in Kassel in the year 1700, and it has to do with an 'investigator man' (he's in fact the city prison administrator) working on a case of residents' disappearances. There is a string of hills, east of Kassel, that used to form the border with the former GDR; the character gets tipped off by several of the locals that this is a potentially dangerous area and so he sets out with a crew to investigate. Long story short: they discover a kind of 'cave cult' that lives underground and follows a branch of Paganism that originates from - get this - somewhere in Hungary. I can see the layout; they have books in German, Gothic (defunct language now, but people used to speak and write it, long ago), Latin and Hungarian; they have their own prayer books, their own set of rules and of course there is a 'ringleader type' and he has a few assistants. The 'informant woman' (her name is either Sharra or Kyriah; don't know yet) will appear to be an ally at first to the investigator man... but as the plot goes along, her intentions will become questionable at the very least and in the end I see her seducing him and he goes to join the cult. Additionally this main character has a married lover (her husband is off fighting some war, somewhere in the eastern part of Europe), and she will be deeply concerned about his findings about the secret clan and beg him to get taken off the assignment. This tale is very dark, but that's what I want to be into right now so Count Degenfeld is going on the shelf. I will return to him later - but this other story just seems to be calling for my muse to write it. And she gladly will... because she much prefers the darkness to the light. It just seems more exciting.