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Story Bible
"Brigid"
Research Document
historiographic
Magical Realism
This "Story Bible" is a reference document and style guide that establishes the standards for the writing, design, and production for the novel known as Survival After the War of End Times. It details and outlines the characters, culture, history, landscape, and other aspects of the story's "world" and would be used by the writers and production crew to maintain continuity and consistency over the course of the project.
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Brigid’s only knowledge of the world is the tiny island she was born on and the often-bitter teachings of its all-female population. Having been kidnapped and sequestered on the island by Norse raiders as prized possessions, the older women have no fondness for the men whose boisterous visits are a time of great anxiety and upheaval. But this time, something is different. The men seem almost scared of the island. She can hear whispers of curses and her mother’s name around the fire. When all the male livestock on the island, including her constant companion for the last seven years, a Puffin she nursed back to health, throw themselves from the cliffs into the ocean, Brigid needs answers. Torn between finding the answers to her mysterious past and the truth about her mother and leaving it all behind to seek a new life in the outside world, Brigid discovers she might be the keystone holding not just her world on the island but the entire world in balance.
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