The Izabran Chronicles FAQ #4: From The Guardians' Chronicles to what it is now

Last Friday, 16 August 2013, I was thinking of how my debut story will be unique. When I say unique, as in, unique that no one will be able to think on writing something as the same as mine.

Until I came up with the idea that the story shall not just focus with the battle, there should be items involving the battle as well.

So, now that I am revising the eX Dream/2018... again... for the nth time, I decided to have that idea.

The only problem is, what will they be called to. Yes, I have the idea of finding elemental items that has to involve the final battle and also their descendants.

Opening the Google translate. I don't know what type of word will capture me. What kind of meaning do I want to have?

I always think that (okay, I don't mean to barge in with those who think The Guardians' Chronicles is already enough), the previous title of the chronicle which is The Guardians' Chronicles seems to be... boring. It seems like it isn't intense. It is like, okay, it only revolves on with the Guardians. And luckily, I decided to change it. I realize that I also have main characters that weren't really involved with the final battle but then, they did something in the past or future that did change and they did get involve without even knowing.

I ended up with Izabran. Izabran means 'chosen' in Croatian.

That's it. The change of The Guardians' Chronicles becomes The Izabran Chronicles.

It is a lot of changing and coping up if you'll just know it!! :)

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The Izabran Chronicles FAQ #3: An unknown letter

When I am recovering some past files of The Izabran Chronicles, foremost with the eX Dream/2018, I bumped in with this strange letter that I know I've written. I just don't know who from my characters wrote this or if it is really part of The Guardians' Chronicles.

Then, after few thinking, I finally give up with thinking who.

But surprisingly, I have a character in mind who will be considered as the best writer of this letter.

Though I decided to have this neither dated nor address it to anyone, it’s simply because I don’t expect anyone will be able to find this or even to mind the date.I’m a careless and reckless person that I care for no man on earth and no man on earth does care for me.I’ll hide myself as your young Sydney Carton though I live far from his own time; I may be the present and future.Like him, my view of the world changes. People, may be not all man on earth, but there are that cares for me because I do care for them.Sydney’s final thought had been with mine: ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.’Its sacrifice—the point that gives you an ultimate and eternal peace.I may be gone the next morning and I may not return by night.But the Lord’s promise is within me until and in the end, because He knows that I made it.

‘I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.’

So, who do you think is the writer of this letter? :))

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The Izabran Chronicles FAQ #2: The creation of the chronicle

It had been months when I finally revealed that the eX Dream/2018 won't. be a running lone-series, that there will be other series that will be joining it as well. You might have this question in your mind if I thought of this ever since I started writing the eX Dream/2018 series when I was on grade five.

The answer is a BIG NO.

I never really thought that: first, I'll be able to accomplish one book of it and even create life on my characters; and lastly, I never thought that I'll have fond with writing one as well. That's why writing or finishing the eX Dream/2018 series, especially the first book of the series is indeed and really an accident.

I'm not joking.

So how did this chronicles come with everything?

Simple, I fall in love with my own characters that I don't want to lose them or even forget about them. I don't want any other character that I'll be creating on the future to out win them. Especially, 'Aaron' (see: 'Aaron's character creation), since he is my first main hero, I want him to be the almost perfect guy in my mind and life. Ow...

To begin, actually, 'Rachel' Alrish and 'Aaron' Braisel were meant to exist in a different series that I am reviving as well but with different characters and plot. So, I'm just reviving the series' name that's all. Before, it was about word traveling to gather something. (More like CLAMP's Tsubasa Chronicle). Anyway, back to the topic, that's true. And inspirations come again and I finally realize that these two weren't meant on it. Their names suggested power and vulnerability at the same time, two things that that previous series with that plot won't be able to give them justice. That's when, eX Dream/2018 was finally born.

Based on the eX Dream/2018 series, 'Rachel' and 'Aaron's character were perfectly linked with the plot. And I don't regret that I need to lose my characters for the dumped series. In the eX Dream/2018 series, I finally see and was able to comprehend more and greatly that their names and characters were given pride as well attached, stronger and more stabilize that if anyone read the series, two names will forever remain: 'Aaron' and 'Rachel', and vice versa. That's the impact that I was able to create on the first series, making my characters memorable as well in my future readers.

With the first series, the so-called The Izabran Chronicles was brought up when a lot of new terms existed while I was writing book 4 that was finally influence by a lot of different books. From Divergent, The Hunger Games, Fallen, The Immortals, Trylle, Halo, Elixir, The Infernal Devices, and to Legend and Defiance; I can guarantee that books changed and improves my writings, the expectations of how the characters are doing reach the heights of comparison - something that I very well made to be inspired alone and not trying to move it on the same flow. I noticed it coming with the end of book 1 moving to something like Divergent that when I'm revising, things were changed to a CAT process required for a Philippine curriculum. Thank God that I managed to move the events on a different flow as well.

A quoting how this chronicle was build up in a shorter way:

"It is actually about the way that my characters automatically influence me as well that gives me the idea to continue loving and treasuring them as if they were real. They were the companions I have all the way that I really don't want to lose at all no matter what happens. They were true enough that I know I can survive when it comes to the real world. Because I don't want to forget them entirely once other books overload my mind with new thoughts, I want them to be the ones that had always been with me since the start. That's when the single eX Dream/2018 series becomes the now The Izabran Chronicles." 

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The Izabran Chronicles FAQ #1: 'Aaron's character creation

Since my books aren't still published or been on sale, I'm going to share what the main male protagonist of the first series of The Izabran Chronicles, eX Dream/2018 series.

'Aaron' Braisel is the main male protagonist. His full and complete real name is to be revealed on book 5 (Looking halfway to the Full Moon) so I won't let it be known... yet. Aaron is Rachel's childhood sweetheart and main love interest. As a Guardian of Heaven, his beauty is beyond humanity. Rachel often describes him as heavenly by book 2 (The Legend that can't be Solved) after having the compliment for what Aaron is physically, though Rachel only sees the goodness of a person in his attitude.

It was said that simply by looking at Aaron, everything about his personality was already explained. I described him as smart, wise, action seeker, a natural leader, self-sacrificing, passionate, secretive, bold, sporty, cultured, mature, outgoing yet, sometimes short tempered, sarcastic, flirt, arrogant, charismatic, confident, pacifist and stubborn but loving, charming, pure of heart and protective as a son and brother and especially as a lover.

To admit, Aaron's character was the hardest one to build up. It is easy to make up a concept on how he looks and how he dwells with others. Another challenge is how to balance all of his attitudes which includes on how he thinks and how he acts. It is NEVER easy to have a character that you made perfect on his own because each of them has their own flaw.

The easiest way is this one.

But if you can't still get it. Then I'll try to make a proper equation of this one quoting:

"'Aaron's character and personality is the most complex one that I ever created for a main lead. If I'll set them in the fandom, Aaron is the combination when you mixed: Tobias Eaton, Daniel Altan Wing, Logan McEntire, Sydney Carton, Percy Jackson, Will Herondale, Jace Lightwood, Daniel Grigori, Elder, Peeta Mellark, Xavier Woods, Damen Auguste, Finn Holmes, Jared Howe, Ethan Wate, Edward Cullen, Harry Potter, Alex Sheathes, Augustus Waters, Luca, Sage and Dace Whitefeather. That's a bunch of it. So for me, I ca say that Aaron is the most ideal man in the entire fiction world that a few may hate the listed boys above but then they love the others and vice versa. That's why I think, everyone will earn to love Aaron."

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The Izabran Chronicles: Scenery

This is the third series under The Izabran Chronicles.  It is a trilogy. The trilogy happens before the events of eX Dream/2018, almost a century ago. The story is about the previous reincarnation of eX Dream/2018's 'Rachel' Alrish and 'Aaron' Braisel as their lives had been in France when the end of the world still haven't cross their paths.

Abrielle Beatrice Alrish is the only heiress apparent for the throne of the French Court. This makes the court wanted the young heiress to marry someone inclined to their family to keep their name on the run. The decision is to have her marry the young Duke of Burgundy, Tobias Daniel Ebrima. Disappointed that she was engaged to someone she barely knew, this thought changed when all of a sudden, their encounter happens to make them fall in love with each other at their first sight.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

+ Tobias Daniel Ebrima
+ Abrielle Beatrice Alrish

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FAQs

WHAT'S THE MAIN THEME OF THIS TRILOGY?

The main theme is an altered history and romance was open up on the lives of this two people that change the history of their country.

WHO IS THE MAIN NARRATOR OF THE SERIES?

Secret still.

TO WHAT AGE CAN YOU PREFER THIS ONE?

Could fall at the age for young adults.

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The Izabran Chronicles: Dreamscape

This is the second series under The Izabran Chronicles. It is a trilogy. The story revolves on to after the events of eX Dream/2018 series, featuring 'Aaron' Braisel as he was married to 'Rachel' Alrish and together with their three children, they try to find a way to escape the grasp of people that wanted to control them.

After the events of eX Dream/2018, twelve years later, 'Rachel' Alrish and 'Aaron' Braisel were married, living happily together in the Philippines with their three children. Being born under a Guardian of Heaven member father and a mother that happens to be 'the chosen one', the three children's power were a threat to both the Seventh Nations Order and the Colonies of thirteen. As their eldest child, Cathy starts to see dreams, everything needs to be under control to keep them safe.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

+ 'Rachel' Alrish
+ 'Aaron' Braisel
+ Cathy Braisel
+ Nadette Braisel
+ Alrik Braisel

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FAQs

WHAT'S THE MAIN THEME OF THIS TRILOGY?

The main theme is somewhat like the normal life, a normal and typical family. But imagine a family traveling between the world of the living and the dead.

WHO IS THE MAIN NARRATOR OF THE SERIES?

Well, secret for now.

TO WHAT AGE CAN YOU PREFER THIS ONE?

It is for any age, but like any series or trilogy under The Izabran Chronicles, this could fall at the age for young adults.

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The Izabran Chronicles: eX Dream/2018

 To see posts that were related to the 'eX Dream/2018' series,
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The eX Dream/2018 series is the first series under The Izabran Chronicles. It is also the longest among the other six stories featured in.

The series focus on the lives of those who are involved with the final battle, especially of the main heroine, 'Rachel' Alrish that lives on the fated Babylon city of Tokyo as she tries to protect those who are important for her. But the only question is that: would she be able to give up her own happiness for the earth or give up the world for her own wish?

Follow her journey as she tries to find who she really is.

 

WHAT IF THE WORLD THAT YOU LIVE IN TURN ITS BACK ON YOU?

In Rachel Alrish's dystopian Tokyo, the world is constantly falling apart, dying because of human errors—hunger, thirst, and equally part of poverty. On one faithful day in the future, all of it will be washed away for the good of Earth and of the humankind until she must take the risk to change the course of the future.

   Rachel might be an ordinary teenager but she herself holds secrets that no one even the world knows except for her mother that had died two months ago. Recalling her mother's last wishes, she did follow to return to Tokyo.

   Destiny seems to curve another way since then. Even the ones she loves and greatly wanted to protect seem to get involved with everything. And there's no other choice to believe that she is falling apart, the same time as the earth does.

HOW COULD YOU ADMIT TO YOURSELF THAT LOVE NEVER DIES?

Rachel Alrish's search to find out her memories and real identity is still beyond her control. But she knows that there's something really wrong with everything. Until fate finally turned things on her hand to believe, but she never expects that it will be that hard to trust them.
   Rachel has an identity she never expects to be called her own. To live afar from knowing it and for the fact to never expect it, everything is linked that she needs to make herself accept them no matter what it is.
   Bringing all of the broken facts together will bring everything to chaos. There are more sudden and tangled events that the Guardians should live with, even if it is impossible to correct what had been done.

WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE PRETEND THAT DEATH IS ASLEEP?

As the future of the Earth draws near, Rachel Alrish will do anything to continue to be with her boyfriend, Aaron Braisel, even if it means dying for him. And as her world collides with a wide search, everything will be conflicted, wherein their love will be tested greater than they both expect it.
   Few months ago, both Rachel and Aaron admit to each other that their love is stronger that no bounds can break them apart ever since they were little kids but then something seems to be against their own happily ever after.
    On their search to find a mysterious book that will lead them to change the current future and destiny of everyone, there are a lot of people that wished all of them dead for good and also try to be free from the grasp of fate.

WHERE WOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF IF DEATH ISN'T AN OPTION AT ALL?

Things had changed ever since the Guardians of Heaven got their hands with the legendary Book of the Believers that holds every secret that looms millennium ago and now 'Rachel' Alrish and the others won't stop at nothing to alter the future that is fated to befall on Earth and each of them in due time.
   The battle is fast approaching as the year finally falls to begin a never ending old tale that will decide everything, and everything is starting to pour over each realizations and revelation that will cause stir and chaos.
   In due time, the times of choice will come to pass. 'Rachel' is to decide whether to become a Guardian of Heaven or a Guardian of Earth as she tries to continue protecting the ones she loves and also change the course of her future.

WHO DESERVES TO KNOW THE TRUTH IF EVERYTHING IS PART OF A BIG LIE?

'Rachel' Alrish's futuristic Tokyo is out of time and out of reach. Known as the 'Kamui', she stands alone at the crossroads between salvation and Armageddon. Destiny demands that she must decide the fate of a world she no longer belongs in.
   Things continue to flow on the events that cost more blood to be spilled. Indeed, fate had always kept the deepest and darkest true facts about her real fate to lure her on one side than the other. And everything is moving like the past.
   There are things that will be answered even if it takes eternity to realize that whatever happens will lead to another tangled revelation. Friends and foes change and die. Life will never be the same ever again for all of them.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

+ 'Rachel' Alrish

+ 'Aaron' Braisel

+ Alice Braisel

+ Kamui

+ Annika Ruizitsu

+ Arc Brussel

+ Sabrina Darkwing

+ Genevieve Baundish

+ Albert Lishimn

+ Arthur Pendragon

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FAQs

WHAT'S THE MAIN THEME OF THE 'EX DREAM/2018' SERIES?

The main theme of the series is about the end of the world based on the Book of John in the Revelation. It also features others motifs that goes in the mouth of people regarding the so-called Apocalypse.

WHO IS THE MAIN NARRATOR OF THE SERIES?

Everyone or at least there are more than 10 narrators in the series. Each character was given the chance to narrate their own. That means, even in one chapter, there's a shift of character to do the narration.

TO WHAT AGE CAN YOU PREFER THIS ONE?

I could say that this is desirable to anyone, no age needed. Because this is like a news that everyone needs to know not only a few. But if we are talking about the violence of the theme it has, it could match up 14 of age or 16 years old. It could be for a young adult or older teen to admit.

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