Skip to main content

Wendigo: Inspiration for the Draoithe Saga 3/16/2025

 

Wendigo

(click for video)

Essays from Draoithe


Wedigo



This video results from research into the Wendigo legend involved in the writing of the Kings Wilde miniseries (Coming Soon!) by Ophelia Kee.


Writing Urban Fantasy is harder than it looks. Blending elements of actual legends and myths into the weaving of a paranormal romance character is challenging, and it all begins with the research.


The dream was crafted to offer elements of folktales and not-so-common belief systems in a world eerily similar to our own. Kings Wilde is a work-in-progress miniseries and one of the main characters is a wendigo. Don't hold your breath on it. I take forever writing the miniseries, and y'all know I can't publish any of it until the whole thing is done.


When Nick Wilde started talking in my head, I began researching what he was. He side-eyed me when I asked him and continued rambling about some flaming horse whose love he was mad to win. My job wasn't to ask him questions he didn't want to answer. I was supposed to just write his story so he could finally convince his librarian to mate with him. Check out the research video.


If you like this video and want more like it, please like and subscribe. Shares are always amazing.


 Want More?

Join my newsletter

Read Posts:

Ophelia Kee Speaks

Listen to the Podcast:

Draoithe Saga Storycast

Video Content:

YouTube

Buy books: 

Payhip 

Books2Read 

Subscribe and Read it all as I Write:

Read the Draoithe Saga

Drop by and say, Hello!

Email the author at opheliakee69@gmail.com

Follow Ophelia Kee on Threads 

Like Ophelia Kee on Facebook 

Like Ophelia Kee on Instagram 

Follow Ophelia Kee on X 

Follow Ophelia Kee on Pinterest 


Thank you for your support! Welcome to the dream… Sincerely, -OK


Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

I love comments. All comments monitored. Thank you for your kind contributions. Welcome to the dream...

Popular posts from this blog

Sneak Peek at Kings Wilde 1/15/2025

  Draoithe Preview Chapters Introduction: This blog features random scenes from works in progress within the Draoithe Saga by Ophelia Kee. These works are primarily urban fantasy and paranormal romance with magical realism, dark themes, and fated mates sprinkled throughout. Here you will find scenes which are yet to be published as of the time of posting, and these chapters may require further editing. It's a look behind the curtain, a sneak peek if you will, at scenes from stories Ophelia Kee is currently drafting.  If you want polished complete stories, this is not the right place. But if you enjoy bits and bobs of things yet to come, won't fall in love with a rough version, and want a taste of the dream before the magic coalesces, then you have found the spot.  January 15, 2025 Sneak Peek at Kings Wilde Warning: This is a work in progress and is subject to change at any time. Read at Your Own Risk! Copyright 2025 All Rights Reserved. Prologue - What Lay In The Cards J...
Post a Comment
Read more

Vampires: Villains, Heroes, and Bloodlust 1/12/2025

  The Thirst, a term used by vampires to describe their need to ingest blood to keep their immortal existence. Some feed on animals, others on humans, and still others feed on their own kind and other immortals. -Excerpt from A Treatise on the Vampire's Nature, Duncan O' Sullivan Vampires: Villains, Heroes, and Bloodlust  Vampires have long enthralled audiences with their dark allure and insatiable appetite for blood, and represent a complex mixture of seduction, danger, and moral ambiguity. The Draoithe Saga often portrays vampires as unlikely heroes, antiheroes, and tragic victims. As dark urban fantasy and steamy paranormal romances, the stories set in the dream usually offer sexy vampires as main characters who find love and ultimately join the fight to balance the magic of the dream and preserve their eternal existence. But what happens when rogue vampires succumb to bloodlust? In the modern dream, vampires live in enclaves, ruled by powerful vjestice vampire princesses. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Incubus and Succubus Research 1/19/2025

  Incubus and Succubus Research Essays from Draoithe “I don’t care how dangerous it is. This isn’t living. I watch all my people barely survive. We constantly fight the slug incursions and lose more of us. There’s no happiness here. So long as I remain unbalanced, so, too, does the entire house.” -Sandor Liderk, living in squalor at Talamh Marcra, 2010 In Tantalu, the prequel tale in the Draoithe Saga by Ophelia Kee, readers meet Sandor Liderk, the Prince of the House of Liderk and the owner of Tantalu Ostain. Liderk is an ancient incubus demon family which rivaled the House of Incubai for power in the Netherworld. A war with the Satyrs nearly eradicated all incubus demons from the dream. With the remnants of the House of Liderk forced to live in poverty at Talamh Marcra, Prince Liderk sought a way to reunify his people and risked everything on rebuilding in the Leaindeail. It's a twisted fairytale meant for adults. But what are incubus demons? How did Ophelia Kee write these ...
Post a Comment
Read more