New ideas

Right, I want to get some idea's down before I forget all of them. I'm going to start with my ideas for Andrew, then talk more about the story and about this world they travel to.
So, my ideas about Andrew. First, I'd like to make a sort of list I have of the sort of things Andrew can do. His powers, of course, are shapeshifting and Prophecy. But there are several things this entails, so here's my list:

• Good hearing/sight/smell
• Shapeshifting (obviously)
• Seeing the future (Another obvious one)
• Strength (Not super or anything, but he gets slightly stronger than a normal person. This can apply to Jade too)
• Telepathy (A general power. Jade should have it as well)
• Immune to most illness (General as well, so add something about never being sick before)
• Seeing though other animals eyes (This is one I though up today. Its to do with being close to nature and that telepathy. It just means that he can see through animals eyes to get a different perspective)
• Strong instincts (Connected to the Prophecy and Animal thing. Though not actually predicting the future, he will feel when something is wrong.)
• Technically, flying (This is only because later in the book he will be able to shift into a bird as well.)

I think that about all. What sort of things can Jade do? I know you said telekinesis, but what would it include?

Next, I want to put forward my idea for the darkness thing. I've been thinking about it, and know I can imagine some sort of evil tyrant, who has taken over a kingdom and is mistreating it. This dark king is some sort of sorcerer that fell into necromancy and is now being controlled by evil spirits. He has lived unnaturally long, and had lasted for the last couple of hundred years since the guys with powers were overthrown.

The last thing I'm going to talk about is this world. I think that if we're going to just send off our characters there we need to know more about it. First, we need a name. Can you see if you can think of any good ones? And we need to think more about how this world works, like whats its currency, livelihoods and lifestyles like. One thing I have done today (besides homework) is create this map:

I've decided to expand on my original idea, which I posted in an earlier post, and add some more detail. I thought maybe you could land in the lake over on the right, whilst I land near the bottom in the town at the edge of the forest. Then, we both travel across the country to find someone who knows what to do,, and both get the same answer, to travel to a place up in the top left corner of the map. I've named it fortunes place. Talking of names, you'll see I haven't named all the towns yet, so any ideas are great! And I thought that maybe the whole land is split into two kingdoms: The dark kingdom which includes all of those towns by the sea, and the trapped kingdom that controls the east but is under the power of the dark kingdom and that evil king. I thought this would be a useful way of gaining an army to fight against the evil.

Okay, I said that was the last thing but I have one more thing to say. Its this fire and ice thing. I said it symbolises two opposites, which would be Andrew and Jade. One could be fire and one could be ice. But it could also be within both of them. Andrew seems quite cool and calm most of the time, so that shows ice. But inside he can be wild, confident, and angry, and maybe a bit ruthless, like fire. Then with Jade, I imagine (I don't want to mess with your character much), could be confident, loud and noticable, so fiery, but inside she can be very cool and logical like ice. It would be an intersting concept.

Thats all I wanted to say. Comment on what you think of my ideas!