thinking about writing a book (in dutch ofcourse), it will be in the fantasy genre, with the focus on the emotional part of the main character. The story will play in a land called the "zonnerijk", i have replaced the idea of a psychical sun, by lightessence, the lightessence cleanses the land, takes away parts of bad energy (also from the inhabitants), and returns together with it to the earth at nightfall, to come back cleansed at "sunrise". however, in the capital of the zonnerijk, aldara (where the hell did i get that name? hope i didn't copycat it from somewhere), lightessence is attracted and trapped in suncrystals, resulting, that the zonnerijk is covered in eternal light, but on the other hand, everything else is covered in eternal darkness. Since the trapped ligthessence can't return to the earth, the crystals become black after a while, from absorbing the bad energy (mostly from aldara and the rest of the zonnerijk), so they use human bodies to cleanse the crystals. The maincharacter will live at the border of the zonnerijk, and will be chosen to cleanse one of the crystals in aldara. After the cleansing the subject will become mutilated for the rest of his life. the idea was also, because of the high lightessence concentration in aldara, all the bad energy will be completely absorbed from the inhabitants of aldara, making them willing and smiling slaves. This will be the setting for the maincharacter, a world where dark and light is polarised. I'm not sure tho.. just started with anti-depressants, and really foggy in my mind, can't get myself to have a objective view on this idea..and i think the whole idea might just be cliché, cheesy etc..
Working it out more, one thought is to have the maincharacter cleanse one of the crystals in aldara, mutilating his soul with the dark essence, but before being taken to aldara i want to the reader to get let them know better with maincharacter, and since the journey from his home (living with his parents on a farm on the edge of the zonnerijk?) to aldara is quite a long one, i will have space enough for events and conversations between characters. then after he gets inflicted with the dark essence i will let him wander in aldara (chapter will be called "the empty streets of aldara), after that he will seek for purpose, and travel to the land of eternal darkness. this isn't a action-fantasy book, i want to make it more of a psychological/spiritual book, and i find a fantasy setting more fit for it, since i am free-er in expressing my own ideas.
Sounds crazy... but could work. What do you mean by his soul is mutilated? How does it change his behaviour etc. etc. (etc.)?
