“The Moonstones Trilogy” Information Part 1

I have decided that before I start writing on my second novel I should probably make an outline of details and information about the first book so that I don't forget anything when writing the second book.  I figured I would share this outline with the people who are interested in reading my book, so I have kept it a spoiler free as I could.  I have only completed the People of Interests section so far, but will be adding to this soon, which I will then post.  Enjoy.

“The Moonstones Trilogy” information

A.    “Shadow of the Western Moon” book 1

1.      People of Interest

1.1  Jonah Jacobson

1.1.1        Age – 23

1.1.2        Description – Purposely vague in an attempt to inspire the reader to create their own individual image of him.

1.1.3        History – Jonah’s parents were slaughtered while working the fields of New Cardeth when he was the age of 6.  He was taken in by Father Mallory after 2 years of living on the streets of New Cardeth, when Father Mallory caught him trying to steal from the church.  Jonah met Alissa and her family for the first time when he was 15 in the marketplace of New Cardeth. 

1.1.4        Personality – Roguish Rogue

1.2  Alissa Zasheer

1.2.1        Age – 20

1.2.2        Description – Alissa is a beautiful young woman who appears to be about the age of 18 with long jet black hair that is full of natural loose curls.  Her skin is a light caramel color and her almond shaped eyes are emerald green.  She has a thin yet shapely figure with long legs.  She is about 5 foot 6 inches tall and has long full eyelashes.

1.2.3        History – Alissa is the oldest child of Rasheed and Lilly Zasheer.  Alissa met Jonah when she was 12 and developed an immediate crush on him that grew over the years into love.  The feelings were reciprocated though the two of them have never really taken it past the point of flirting and teasing until the events of the novel.

1.2.4        Personality – Flirty Tease

1.3  Rasheed Zasheer

1.3.1        Age – 41

1.3.2        Description – Rasheed is a short heavy set man who stands about 5 foot 3 inches and looks to be perpetually happy.  He has darkly tanned skin, short black hair and dark brown eyes.  His face is smooth shaved and prone to smile lines at the corners of his mouth.

1.3.3        History – Rasheed comes from a merchant family.  Because of this he grew up in the business of trading and has seen much of the world over the 41 years of his life.  When he was 20 he married his wife Lilly, who was 18 at the time.  One year later they had a daughter. Alissa, then ten years later Rasheed and Lilly had a second child, a son they named Basheer.  Never one to pass up a potentially good deal to made he has traveled to places like Ib where only a few merchants go due to fear and distrust of the Ibian people.

1.3.4        Personality – Traveling Merchant Extraordinaire

1.4  Lilly Zasheer

1.4.1        Age – 38

1.4.2        Description – Lilly is a beautiful woman with pale skin and long, straight blond hair that she keeps in a tight bun.  Her eyes are green and she is about 5 foot 8 inches tall with a thin, shapely build.  Looking at Lilly you would be able to see where Alissa got most of her looks from.

1.4.3        History – Lilly was born to a merchant family, the Lockheart family, which was a rival to Rasheed’s family.  After years of rivalry the two families set down together to try to find a way to overcome their differences.  The rumors as to why the two families decided to do this vary depending on who you ask.  Regardless, at the meeting, then 16 year old Lilly met then 18 year old Rasheed for the first time.  The two families decided after much debate (6 months of it) that the best course of action for them to take would be to divide up what trade routes each family would use in order to avoid the fierce competition that they had been having with one another.  During the time that the families were working out what to do, Rasheed and Lilly had started meeting in secret and a budding romance started to grow.  When the families reached a consensus on the proper course of action to take, it looked like Lilly and Rasheed would never see each other again.  Together they decided to bring their romance out into the open in an effort to be able to stay together.  The families came together over the relationship and insisted on a marriage.  Once the couple was married two years later, they were granted the ability to travel all of the trade routes that were divided between the two families as long as they supported each family equally in their endeavors.

1.4.4        Personality – Loving Mother and Wife

1.5  Basheer Zasheer

1.5.1        Age – 10

1.5.2        Description – Basheer closely resembles his father in completion and hair color but his eyes are the same color as his sister and mother’s eye color.  He is very slim in his build and stands as 4 foot 2 inches tall.

1.5.3        History – Basheer doesn’t have much of a history that is of any significance due to his age.

1.5.4        Personality – Happy Go Lucky

1.6  Doctor Sliss

1.6.1        Age – Unknown

1.6.2        Description – Doctor Sliss is an Ibian female.  She stands around 4 feet tall and has dark red (almost crimson) scales that have lavender colored speckles.  She always has a clip board out that she is constantly taking notes on and has an obsession with human anatomy.  Her eyes, like all Ibian eyes are large and black. They take up a large portion of her face as they do on all Ibians.  Her teeth are small and sharply pointed, inside a thin lipped mouth, which is also typical of all Ibians.  The one distinguishing feature that marks her as female to outsiders is the clothing that she wears which, once again is typical of Ibians.

1.6.3        History – Little is known about Doctor Sliss or her past.

1.6.4        Personality – Quirky Scientist

1.7  Father Frances Mallory

1.7.1        Age – 78

1.7.2        Description – Father Mallory is an elderly gentleman who is around 6 foot tall with stark white hair and a weathered face.  His right leg is missing just below the thigh due to an injury sustained in the attack that killed Jonah’s parents.  He has a clockwork replacement that Jonah had crafted for him as a token of thanks for taking him in.

1.7.3        History – Not much of importance that hasn’t been covered in Father Mallory’s description of Jonah’s history.

1.7.4        Personality – Shepard of his Flock

1.8  Sephira

1.8.1        Age – Exact age unknown.  Best estimates put her at around 1200 years old.

1.8.2        Description – Sephira appears to be a gorgeous young woman of around 16 years old.  She has long straight silver hair and silver eyes.  She stands about 5 foot 4 inches tall and has a petite build.  In her the center of her stomach there is a large silvery gemstone that glows softly most of the time but can glow brighter under the right situations.

1.8.3        History – Much of her true history is not known other than the legends that the Ibians tell about her.  She was born after her mother was kissed on the womb by a tear from the western moon, Sila, on the night that the moon’s tears revived the great tree, Yggdrasil.  When Sephira was growing up she fell in love a young man named Cain.  After her mother died, Sephira and Cain (whom she married) started to wander the earth, trying to find a place of their own to call home.  Eventually they settled in a tiny village call Charne which in time grew up to be a massive city.  Eventually, Cain died of old age while Sephira lived on, eternally young.  She remained in Charne until the day the Ibian people (Who were normal humans at the time) came seeking the power of the stone that was in her belly.  She was raped by the soldiers of Ib before the stone was cut from her belly and she was left to die.  The few remaining living people in Charne buried her in the same tomb that her husband Cain was buried in.  The Stone was taken to Ib and displayed in a statue where it fell dormant and the people of Ib were slowly transformed for their evil act into the lizard like creatures they are today.

1.8.4        Personality – Tragic Lover

1.9  Lord Aramon

1.9.1        Age – Unknown

1.9.2        Description – No one knows what Lord Aramon truly looks like.

1.9.3        History – No one knows anything about Lord Aramon’s history though, it is speculated that he has ties to The Authority.

1.9.4        Personality – Evil Overlord

2.      Places (coming soon)

2.1  New Cardeth

2.2  Ib

2.3  New Babylon

2.4  Charne

2.5  Westerfield

2.6  Yggdrasil

2.7  Sila

2.8  Illsa

3.      Key Events (coming soon)

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