Meet Luna. Born during the extremely rare advent of the white lunar eclipse, she has the absolute powers of the moon goddess Ylomena. Actually, she is the youngest of the seven daughters of Ylomena who, according to legend, loses her powers during the white lunar eclipse, which only takes place once every seven hundred million years in the mystical land i call Paladin. As the most revered goddess of the night, Ylomena possesses magnanimous abilities of a most cryptic nature far beyond mortal understanding. These abilities involve a profound knowledge, understanding, and absolute control of the soul and the abstracted realm of the spirit, which includes emotions, thinking and everything in between, not just of mortals but of any creature, divine or otherwise, that exists in this mystical land of my creation, the main setting of this copyrighted gist whose working title is the name of the main character herself, Luna.
"Luna" in colored inks and liquid eraser on paper. 2010
On the night of the white lunar eclipse, Ylomena loses her powers as they are duplicated and transferred to her youngest daughter, who will eventually take her personage when the time comes. This transfer of power between the queen of the night and her youngest daughter does not involve the dying of the former, for gods and goddesses are immortal beings. What happens is their spirits unite and become one. In the process, the entirety of each bonds together, the personage of the daughter engulfing that of her mother. The combination of powers further strengthens the dominion of the night and with it the powers of the queen as the youngest daughter eventually becomes her mother, and vice-versa. The white lunar eclipse marks the event of the birth of the moon heiress, who is actually born last of the seven daughters of the moon goddess--as to why it has to be the youngest daughter is because the 7th daughter completes the cycle of power and life of the reigning queen. Although she is considered the youngest in mortal standard, for the divinities the youngest always turns out to be the eldest and heir to the throne. Notice the "Ylen" name i wrote on the lower lefthand side? Ylen was the first name i gave to my main character, which i eventually changed to Luna because it is the Spanish word for "moon," a more befitting moniker for the next queen of the night. I decided to give the name Ylen to the first born instead who is one of the three antagonists in this tale. She covets the position of Luna, her youngest and most powerful sister(far more powerful than she is actually), and plotted to vanquish her by absorbing her entirety and powers.
The night of the white lunar eclipse is the night the 7the daughter of the moon goddess is born. As the queen delivers her heiress, she transfers all of her powers to the latter, thus she weakens. Though her powers are eventually restored after her 7th daughter has been introduced to the world, their momentary absence renders her incapable of fully protecting her, and it was during this time that Ylen, driven by greed and envy, crept in and stole her youngest sister. She was planning to vanquish her whilst she was still too young to be aware, let alone use her immense powers, as she is still confined to her small light form(They take on a luminous human-like form at birth and evolve into the magnificent creatures they are in the long run.). But her wicked plans were intervened by her younger second sister Ezra. As the battle between sisters, moonlight against moonlight, raged on, Fidez and Yrina, respectively the 3rd and 4th sisters who sided with Ezra, took Luna and fled to save their youngest sister.
In the mortal realm, where differing tribes thrive and coexist, the birth of the 7th daughter of the moon bears a strong relevance, affecting the cycle of life in general, as well as the lives of the mortals themselves. Deemed as life-moving divinities of the equally powerful twin gods--Ylomena and Arves(moon and sun), night and day respectively, the moon goddess giving birth to her heiress always heralds the loss of life of a mortal infant who happens to have been born on the exact same time(She/he is born lifeless.). The infant's soul becomes a natural sacrifice, as his/her soul fuses with the spirit of the heiress, making him/her a part of her. Sadly, however, in becoming a part of the moon heiress, his/her chances of living as a mortal are already forfeited.
The height of the white lunar eclipse covers the world in a shroud of blinding white light to be followed by a period of absolute darkness lasting for an hour. Once the light sweeps across the lands, it means that the heiress of the moon has just come out of the moon's womb. The period of blackness that follows represents the time the moon goddess is temporarily powerless, a period required to replenish or duplicate her lost powers, which she has transferred by virtue of giving birth to her heiress. It was the perfect timing Ylen needed to carry out her evil plans and become the moon goddess, usurping her own mother after she has engulfed her own sister and in the process vanquishing both of them, so she can have her full reign. Unfortunately for her, three of her younger sisters found out and intervened just in time.
While Fidez and Yrina were fleeing via a secret path leading to the window to the mortal world, they were confronted by Rixi, their 6th younger sister, who connived with Ylen, albeit their knowledge. As expected another battle between the clashing sister moons ensued, this time both Fides and Yrina against Rixi, whose powers are considerably greater than her elder sisters, her being the 6th daughter, which by birthright has granted her more powers as her mother's powers were already building up further in preparation for the birth of the 7th daughter, the appointed heiress. while the three sisters fought with the blinding fury of the cold moonlight powers, the infant Luna was left in an isolated corner. So great was Rixi's powers over Yrina and Fides that neither one could have the heart to leave the other to sneak down to the path to save Luna, lest one of them should be vanquished.
While they were battling, Lomen, the 5th moon daughter, who unlike her sisters was born with intense powers that rendered her unusually cold and incapable of speech, and was thus reticent, unreactive and withdrawn, was watching closely from within the walls. Ever since, she has known of Ezra and Rixi's plan, but could not communicate it to her sisters since by nature, she was possessed with a mind that deliberately chooses to remain passive and oblivious to her surroundings. Just like the walls of their tower. But this time, despite the abstraction of her passive nature, Lomen found herself moved to act on duty to save her youngest sister. Stealthily she picked her up and moved swiftly from within the walls going out of the tower and into the crystal woods where the window leading to the mortal world can be found. After chanting some prayers through pursed lips, she dropped the glowing infant of light into the window, where she was immediately sucked into the darkness and transported to the human realms.
In the mortal world, the family of an impoverished nomadic tradesman, a native of the Nobu tribe, was grieving the loss of their newborn son. The child had come out of his mother's womb lifeless, just as the blinding light had swept across the valley where they had set up their makeshift home. Barely half an hour had passed since he and his two sons were panicking with just a candle to give a bit of light in a world shrouded by absolute darkness, to assist his wife, who unfortunately had to deliver at the most inopportune time. Though not versed with mysticism, he was alerted by the lunar eclipse, which he knew had something to do with the gods in a rather negative way(or so he thought). Little did he know, that his third infant son was the sacrifice, born at exactly the same time as the heiress, and by their time of grieving had already become a part of the magnanimous spirit of the infant heiress.
However, having been transported to the mortal world, the heiress, guided by the mystical power of her 5th sister's prayers, was drawn towards the lifeless body of the tradesman's infant son, whose soul had acted as a force that led her to his form. Because their spiritual natures were already one, the infant heiress then inhabited the body of the sacrifice, as she could not have survived as anything else without a host in the mortal world--and in this case, it is none other than him. Dead for already half an hour, the infant suddenly opened his eyes and began to cry, breaking the dead silence of darkness and startling the grieving tradesman and his family...Thus begins the story of Luna who was eventually named Ezreel by his mortal mother and father. The youngest in a brood of three boys, he was born into an ordinary impoverished tradesman's family, whose common and uneventful life was about to change in a most radical and unexpected way...
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