September 12th, 2013 at 03:21pm
First, thank you for the wall comment and for the blatantly obvious interest you have in my story :3 And I shall fix that error. Always let me know if you notice any blatant mistakes. : )
Answering questions!
A Source's life is tied to their Weaver and it's as you said. Lillith aged rapidly as she was about 300 years at her Weaver's death. Lyra is young enough for her magic to fade and for her body to remain alive. Her normal life span hasn't yet been passed so if Grigore were to die she would simply become a normal human and no longer plagued by monsters. So no, Lyra wouldn't be in danger when he leaves. Well she would be while he was alive. Once he would be dead she would be as safe as anyone else in the world.
Sources eye colour changes due magiiiiiic. Literally. They have high volumes of magic in their body and it's always visible through their eyes. Kind of like a symptom to being a Source. Sources are rare so no, not every Weaver has a Source. And because of that Weavers don't actively seek out Sources. If they find one, which they would recognise from the magic in them, they would simply take them with them for safety and help her find her Weaver. Not every Weaver would find their Source as they world is so big and can be born billions of miles apart. And a Weaver having a Source is utterly random.
The magic has a big role in how the relationship plays out between a Source and Weaver. It wants them to like each other, to want to touch each other so it can be passed to the Weaver. There would be a pair that have personalities that have to starkly different and hate each other but ultimately the magic forces them to care for one another and work together. A Source can't refuse a Weaver. The magic wouldn't allow her. It would bend her will and ensure she sticks by him. The same applies for Weavers. The magic is very very selfish.
Birth of either Source of Weaver is utterly random and the odds of a magic user being born from one is just the same as a normal human.
Weavers are all human and they are all men and Sources are always female. I chose this because a woman's body carries life and nurtures it. This is essentially what a Source does with magic. They carry it within them and it grows within her. As I said, Weavers are born from anyone and, like Sources, usually display symptoms. Often a Weaver has a very small amount of magic within them so other Weavers can find them. This magic will often display itself through intense emotions, often through things breaking randomly or changing the temperature of water or some such. Domestic creatures also shy from them. Sometimes the parents don't pick up on the symptoms until a Weaver comes to take the child away, sometimes they do.
The Weavers don't really have an organisation as such, merely laws passed to them from the lands and ranks given to ensure they match a Weaver correctly to a monster. So when a monster plagues a city, the people will ask for a specific ranked Weaver to take it down. A Weaver of that rank will then answer the calls.
Every Weaver found is often taken from abusive homes or given over willing by parents who have pride in their child, some parents refuse though and that child is left. Once a Weaver has been trained, some hunt for a short time before retiring, others retire instantly and return to a normal life, most go on to hunt for a long time. So I guess it's both voluntary and forced.
And the magic only makes a Source And Weaver lusty for each other when the Weaver is starved. It's to help him and lust is the best way to get a Source and Weaver to touch each other so it can pass through skin contact.
I am going to try to focus on the way a pair of Weavers work together in the next part of the story so you may learn a bit more about them. So yes, you should be learning a bit more about Weavers and how they function.
Hope that gives you some answers to your questions. If you have any more, ask and I'll happily answer : )
Thanks for the support!
I may re-write it and have an attempt at getting this story published (would have no issues with theft then!) but I shall try with a couple of short stories first. It shall be a scary time when I attempt at becoming published ;-;
But thanks for the support and for helping me decide! :3