So I've been batting this idea around for a while now. I really, really like what I've done with it: first person narrator has what we would consider an unusual speech pattern, he's a magic user and the local holy man for his village, the love of his life belongs to a semi-secret mystic/spiritual sect, they're both elves (AND NEITHER OF THEM ARE TOLKIEN OR D&D GARDEN VARIETY ELVES! MY ELVES, MY RULES!), there's a stretch around the village's annual Fishing Day that signals the end of their winter, much archery and swordplay. That sorta stuff. I'm trying to delve more into the semi-secret mystic/spiritual sect and have some ideas of their methods of training and dress, possibly even some rituals, elves only, and I'm trying to come up with more background on the sect to make it more believable/realistic and all I'm getting is no, i liek CHOKLIT milk! Absolute and utter blank on this. I'm working more on the story between Donal (magic user) and Minty (mystic), so I'm probably not even ready to delve too far into the history and why-for's of the sect now. Again, just barely even started the story and there's no real serious structure at the moment. Just throwing a bunch of stuff on the wall and seeing if anybody salutes it.