Archetypes.

  The story takes place in the 16^th century beginning somewhere along the Iberian Peninsula where a young boy is separated from his mother who was burned at the stakes for witchcraft right before his eyes. The boy knows nothing of his father other than what his mother had said about him that he had been an explorer and he had set off one day when the boy was only two, but has not yet returned ever since. Having no other family that he knew of, the boy was taken to a monastery where he spent eight years as a servant to the monks that lived there. While he was at the monastery he lived in a cold dark shed, though he preferred to sleep outside where he could watch the stars and the moon that seemed unusually comforting as he would think about how his father would have used those very stars to help him navigate the globe. As he got older, the boy begins to realize that he is not like the other boys that live in the monastery, who are mostly bigger than him and tease him a lot. One day he became so furious with the other boys that his hands began to shake and he felt an extreme burst of energy run throughout his entire body, his hands started to burn and the other boys quickly scatter and tell the monks what they saw. Some say that they saw him envelop in flames, while others say that they saw his eyes turn red and the ground below him began to rise. The monks have a meeting and decide to shun the boy and leave him out in the streets.

     As he is wandering the streets the boy follows a path that leads him towards a sea port where he steals a boat and sets off to sea. After three days of open waters the boy is about to pass out from exhaustion and thirst when he suddenly becomes shrouded in mist as if the ocean is rising right from under him, though as this is happening the boy finally becomes unconscious. He is unaware of how long he was out, but when he wakes up, he finds himself upon a sandy shore and in front of him is a thick forest of the biggest trees he has ever seen. The boy drags himself towards the greenery and finds an unusual assortment of fruit growing on the bark of the trees that he consumes in huge hungry bites. As he ventures deeper into the forest he encounters two beast-like birds fighting over a bag. Then later on he meets “the forest people” (I haven’t thought up of a name yet) who live in a vast networking of ladders and houses that they had built in the huge trees as to avoid the dangers of the forest under them. The forest people are unusual creatures and are very hostile towards the boy at first, but after he passes their “test” which was a battle with one of their fiercest warrior (and the boy wins just as his opponent has him pinned down and as he’s about to make that final blow the boy panics, closes his eyes and he experiences that same feeling he had felt at the monastery though this time it’s slightly different because the boy sees a flash just before a weight is lifted off of him and when he opens his eyes he finds his opponent on the opposite side of the field, unconscious. The forest people are a bit taken aback at first but they quickly recover (almost too quickly, as if they’ve seen something like this before), and after this they are unusually welcoming and offer him a place to stay. The boy is curious of their peculiar behavior and asked around if they knew why he keeps experiencing these strange feelings, but they would just smile at him and carry on with their tasks.

     Ok I feel like this story is going to take forever to describe at this pace so I’ll just cut to the chase…

     The boy learns a lot living with the forest people but decides that it is best for him to leave and they are reluctant to see him go providing him with a few gifts for his journey and he also attracts a companion that he had gotten close to, to travel with him on this journey. After encountering a few life-threatening situations he eventually encounters two elf-like people quarreling amongst each other who agree to bring him to their camp (that is well hidden among the forest). After some event/ceremony they invite him to join their people and teach his special ability to perform magic and he soon becomes unnaturally good, maybe even saves a few people. During some time he finds out that the people of this world are suffering under the rule of an evil tyrant which is why the forest floor is so dangerous (recollect the birds at the beginning and a few of the life-threatening events) and why many (the survivors) choose to stay hidden. Something then happens and the tyrant discovers their hiding place and this leads to war of the evil forces versus the reunited “good people” that come out of hiding and reunite. Then it ends with the boy doing some spectacular feat that ends the war (perhaps kills the tyrant –who he also finds out is highly skilled in magic). And then peace is restored throughout the lands.

P.S. I chose the Magicians archetype.