The Werewolf Story Arc

Tara Tillain finding out she is a werewolf starts off her story. It causes her to leave home and find herself as a different person than before.

Plot points/Scenes

1. We get to know Tara, her mother and the Queen
2. Tara tries to save Serena's mother, but blacks out in the process.
3. Tara wakes up in prison. She is told there that she is a werewolf.
4. Tara appears before the Tribunal. Thanks to the Queen, she is banished in stead of executed.
5. The Queen tells Tara to find Ryngon in the Rosera Forest. A small swallow is perched in the window of the palace.
6. Tara is escorted out of the state, but when reaching the forest her guards try to kill her. She turns into a werewolf and kills most of them in stead. She almost kills all of them, but she is stopped by a Alaviran Mountain Cat that jumps from the bushes. They fight. The remaining guardsman flees. Only when Tara is calmed down does the cat stop attacking her.
7. The creature leads her to a ruin deep in the forest where the burnt corpses of a past battle lie.
8. The creature turns out to be a wizard that uses animal bodies as avatars.
9. He attempts to train Tara to control her lycantrophy. Tara wants a cure.
10. Merrilin, sent by the Queen to check on Tara, finds the two, but recognises the wizard as being Ryngon, a criminal in Sunfire.
11. Ryngon explains his story to Tara. He is a criminal because he killed Halo's council. The leaders of Sunfire asked him to gather shards of the Nephilim, as they were hypnotised by one they possessed already. He also explains how the Queen once came to him with her bethrothed (the Cursed Prince). Merrilin tried to teach the boy to control his curse. The Prince refused to work with him and left angrily to try and find a cure.
12. Merrilin gathers a small force to go kill Ryngon and Tara (being a werewolf). Tara gets away and flees into the forest.
13. Merrilin attacks and performs a coup on Rosera.
14. Tara meets the cursed Prince in the forest. He has gathered a pack in the forest and wants Tara to join it. Tara finally learns to all but fully control her changes through controlling her anger and fear.
15. Merrilin sends a force to find Tara. They find the pack and set the forest around the wolves on fire. Tara flees again.
16. Tara meets Serena who is in a caravan on her way to Sarah's Orphanage in Hyghlynn. Serena tells Tara that she's grateful for her trying to help. Tara manages to join the caravan, trying to flee.
17. A group of soldiers comes and wants to check the caravan. They threaten to become violent. In the end, Tara runs, purposefully distracting them from the caravan. She is caught. They don't kill her though, but say they will take her to Merrilin.

Themes

• Anger (bad) and the control of it (good)

• Gemstones with a vague glow, shimmer or sparkle (from themselves or as a reflection)

• The colour red representing bad situations (Tara's prostitute clothing, blood in the blood mages's basement, Tara's sight when she rages, the corrupt guards, Merrilin's clothes, the Bloodstone, guards coming after Ryngon and later after Tara,...)

• White and gold for good things (Serena's hair and clothes)

• Organic shapes in Rosera (Feyglen, the Queen's crown, the forest)

Structure

Exposition

1

Conflict

2

Rising Action

3-11

Climax

12

Falling Action

12-17

Resolution

17

Components

Goals

Finding a cure to lycantrophy.

Hooks

Finding out she is a werewolf.

Stakes

Life and death.

Moral Quandaries

Ryngon's background.

Cruel Tricks

Merrilin betraying the Queen.

Relations

Protagonists

• Tara Tillain
• Merrilin

Allies

• The Queen
• Ryngon
• The Cursed Prince?

Competitors

• The Cursed Prince?

Adversaries

• Merrilin
• The Black Knight

Backdrops

Locations

Rosera

Threats

• The mysterious black knight

Past Events

• The Cursed Prince

• Ryngon's murder of the Council of Halo

Plot type

Main story arc of part I of SotN I