What a Girl Writes When Brain-Fried...

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So let's just say that doing this job app for transcription has melted my brain cells and I'd like to rebuild. Nothing does that for me better than planning a story. [Note: not working on a story.]

So enter Broken Time.

The amazing luciademedici liked "Entertaining Angels" and wanted more. [I'm still getting over the shock. Someday I'll tell you about the AMAZING writers way better than me that have bowled me over by saying they like my work.]

So, I immediately pulled out my notes and reviewed how much research I'd need to do to make this happen.

First of all, I'm founding the Guild, so that means 300 years of history [did I mention I've never cared for writing historical fiction?] and figuring out what was what in New Orleans at that time. [Note to self: I. Am. Nuts.]

Here we go:

From Wikipedia: "Recognizing the importance of the Mississippi River to trade and military interests, France made New Orleans the seat of civilian and military authority in 1722. From then until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase on December 20, 1803, France and Spain traded control of the region's colonial empire."

Very interesting. Especially as Broken Time starts sometime around 1700. And that means the Guilds might play an interesting part in the primacy of New Orleans.

"France ceded most of its territory to the east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the aftermath of Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War or French and Indian War, as it is known in North America. It retained the area around New Orleans and the parishes around Lake Pontchartrain. The rest of Louisiana became a colony of Spain after the Seven Years' War by the Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1763.

"In 1765, during the period of Spanish rule, several thousand French-speaking refugees from the region of Acadia (now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada) made their way to Louisiana after having been expelled from their homelands by the British during the French and Indian War. They settled chiefly in the southwestern Louisiana region now called Acadiana. The Spanish, eager to gain more Catholic settlers, welcomed the Acadian refugees. Cajuns descend from these Acadian refugees.

"Spanish Canary Islanders, called Isleños, emigrated from the Canary Islands of Spain to Louisiana under the Spanish crown between 1778 and 1783.

"In 1800, France's Napoleon Bonaparte acquired Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso, an arrangement kept secret for two years."

I think I'm going to go nuts. This is a bit of history that could make everything messy. Unless...

Spoilers!



So, the way Broken Time works is we start off at one point in history when the Guilds were originally founded by Howlett, LeBeau, and Bordeaux. (Yes, the "modern" ones.) And their kids all made pretty close friends. However, after the kids decide to screw over time in the better interests of all history, they go back well before their parents and get Candra to offer the Guilds a different deal. In so doing, they also set off a LOT of repercussions they have to keep fixing to get it all right. So maybe we can have a 1800 period Remy, Belladonna, and Anna Marie, and then have them change the Guilds to get started in 1700 by some French forebears of the LeBeau and Bordeaux clans and that works better with having Jean-Luc born later and having the kids born later. [Note to self: gotta figure out how to get Marius born later if the Assassins get the gifts. Could give that job to Nightshade and have her talk Candra into changing the gift to Assassins. What if they both got long life at first?]

Methinks I have ideas.

Now, if only I can figure out how to get all the historical details right. [Period dress is not my thing. :headdesk: ]