Cori: Really long post, beware!

A few days ago, Rachel made a post about her plot...and I realized that I have never told anyone about the details of my plot. Which is really freaking stupid, since I've been on here for about two years now. So, I'm going to tell you about my plot. It might take a while.

My world, which is ironically named Utopia, is very different from ours. It's not our world, or any form of it. (as in, it's not in the future like Rachel's Death List.) Compared to our world it's futuristic, though I did put in some Victorian age aspects, since that's my favorite time period. My genre is a blend of steampunk, dystopian, and high fantasy.

There are four continents: Akivar, Syria, Jutian, and Ardina de Ra. Akivar is commonly known as the continent that hates demons, because the country Xyren is part of it. Xyren is like the Soviet Union, because it's a totalitarian. The King, Tranton, is the one that makes unfair laws for demons (such as not being allowed to enter public buildings without permission from the king). No one has seen him since the nuclear war.

The continent Syria is made up of countries that are more or less tolerant of demons, except for the country Mirak, which is where Altrius is from. Mirak is somewhat like Romania; they hate demons with a passion and usually execute the demons that are born there unless they flee to another country or continent. The country Trellimein, which symbolizes England, actually likes demons and welcomes them into the city.

Fifty-four years before Caged begins, there's a nuclear war that destroys an entire continent and leaves a small crater in the planet. The continent was called Mandlin, but is now Den Raven. Xyren and Trellimein were the ones who were fighting the most, which is the reason why the capital of Trellimein, Racel, was bombed and destroyed. The bombing of Racel happens in the prologue and features a twenty-year-old Altrius and an eighteen-year-old Khardan. Racel was obliterated, Xyren took over Trellimein, and Racel is eventually rebuilt.

SPOILERS AHEAD! I'm going to highlight them in white, so you don't have to read them if you don't want to. Just highlight them with your mouse, like you're going to use copy-paste, and you'll be able to see the words underneath.

The creator of Utopia, Davu, made the world without any gods. But when a Jutianese man made an artwork called Angel Gate, it came to life and became a portal between worlds. Eventually, four gods came out of the Gate and began ruling over the world like it was their own. The four gods were extremely evil and made fake identities to pose as 'demon gods' so that they could pretend to be good. The only way to destroy them is to destroy Angel Gate, the most powerful thing ever made. Angel Gate also created the prophecy.

Elder Tresting, who has chapter two named after him, is an old man who lives on the continent Akivar, in the neutral country of Driagor. His family has taken care of the prophecy for generations; if his line ends, the prophecy hides itself somewhere in the world and Altrius has to go find it and give it to whoever it revolves around. In other words...if Tresting dies, Altrius is sent on a very long journey to find a stupid prophecy. He doesn't even know what it looks like or what it does--he's just hired to find it. Tresting dies at the end of chapter three and Altrius the mercenary is forced to take a girl from Ardina de Ra (they're cut off from the rest of the world, so she has no idea where to go or what to do. She has no idea what orange juice is *sniff*) with him to Racel, which is where Khardan and Vandralls are.

SPOILERS!

The prophecy is not a thing, but an actual person. Tresting did not die in chapter three, but before the book even began--he was dead from the moment Altrius was born. The prophecy decided to hide inside of Altrius himself: the voice in Altrius's head. He has the power to control Altrius's body and the minds of those around him, like Khardan's (the reason why Khardan can't remember the war), and is completely evil. Tresting appears to be alive, but isn't; the prophecy animates his corpse like a puppet. Though he doesn't know it, and won't for a very long time, Altrius is the one that revolves around the prophecy, along with his brother Zalthar.

Zalthar is Davu's son. He's insane, he loves experimenting on both humans and demons, and he hates Altrius with a passion. When Altrius and Vandralls were taken from Nadine, Altrius's abusive mother, they were sent to live with Davu. The reason why Zalthar hates Altrius is because he thinks that he's stolen Davu from him. Davu loves Altrius very much and pays more attention to him than he does his own son. Zalthar is the "main bad guy" in the first three books.

Before the nuclear war, there was something called the Sickness that spread through Mandlin. Millions died, a new breed of demons called the Lost was created, and whoever survived were rendered vampires and were banished to a place called the Tribal Lands, where they would starve from the lack of blood and hopefully die out. Vampires in my world aren't like vampires in, say, Dracula (yay) or Twilight (ew). They're very much alive, they just need to drink blood to survive or else the diseased blood in their bodies attacks their cells and kills them. Altrius caught the Sickness later on when he was in the custody of one of the demon gods and is now a vampire. He only needs blood every once and a while, but it's a major plot point later on.

Another major plot point in Caged is the demon factories. Demons are made naturally, and children show their true race when they turn ten. But in the beginning of Caged it becomes known to Altrius that some people have used chemicals and the old Sickness virus to create chemically made demons that resemble the Lost. They're making the demons because they want to get rid of all the humans, which Altrius disapproves of--even though he hates humans, demons need them to survive. Factories in which to make the demons are built, and Altrius eventually infiltrates one along with Mirabelle. Well, infiltrates is not the right word...they're captured and sent there to die. But they escape and kill a few baddies on the way.

Well, that's it for now...it's mainly what happens in Caged, though some of the spoilers I gave you aren't in the first book. But that doesn't matter; I'll be writing about them later so that's what counts. I hope you enjoyed my super long post!