Some of Very Short Stories

Thursday 5 May 2016

Notes on Sauilin Sets

This is a thousand words written for a book with the working title "Blutling Prince of the Darklands". I'm not up to this portion yet, but it is part of the story that needs to be there, so I wrote it - a bit like most of chapter 10, which was written long before I'd finalized what was going to happen in Chapter 1.

I won't go into the story except to tell you it has two characters from another story, but you can read it for yourself, but I will give you a little bit of the story about Sauilin and her compatriots.

Sauilin is what we would call the Sun. It is the Darklander name for the star the planet orbits and is universally accepted as its name. It is referred to as the loving mother who nurtures the land, unlike our own mythos that has the sun as a male character.

Thiuhian, on the other hand, is the King of the night. It is the greater of the two moons, has a circular orbit about the equator.

Saldra, the Jester of Joker, is the lesser of the two moons. She has an elliptical orbit about the poles and causes havoc in the southern hemisphere two or three times a year, about every seven and a half cycles of Thiuhian. She is the wayward daughter of Sauilin and Thiuhian in the old stories.


Gardijon is the name of the planet or the lands. He is the wayward son of Sauilin and Thiuhian, the warrior who is constantly warring with his sister Saldra. It seems the union of the sun and moon only ever produced troublesome offspring.