This is a story about perception and who holds the key to reality. It contemplates freedom and authority through the journey of a girl destined to become the human element.

TIMELINE:
From the dawn of time elemental forces have been brewing in this fertile valley. In the 1800’s, a curse was placed on the town after the founder of the town betrayed a native Chief. The town then was destroyed by fire twice in the early 1900’s and had on of Canada’s largest mining disasters. The curse was lifted in the mid 60‘s. The novel takes place in the modern day mining town.

MAGIC:
Morrigan is the only one in this world that has faith and spiritualistic practice with elementals/ the otherworld. She worships nature and all it’s mysteries. She believes absolute knowledge of the elements is akin to enlightenment.

SYNOPSIS: (tentative)
The story begins with the main character, Morrigan, who is burning all her notebooks including beautiful drawings because she’s angry with everyone who thinks she is crazy. It all began when she was on a family vacation to stone henge and was recognized by a stone elemental, who saw her potential and embedded her with otherworld sight. Everyone assumed her spiritual practices and descriptions of deceased souls was a kind of insanity. The fire getting out of control and burning her house down was a good enough excuse to send her to a mental hospital. This also got the attention of a fire elemental, who read all her notebooks.
In the mental hospital she reconnects with her childhood friend, Klara, who is in treatment for anorexia. She is jealous of Morrigan’s magic and wants to learn.
The scribbling of madmen appear as a map to Morrigan. The map leads them to a master human elemental who has been trapped in the hospital all his life and wants to pass on the knowledge to Morrigan. He tells her that she must escape to learn more elemental skills from the ancient beings in the town, or the town will be destroyed by the fire elemental that she accidentally summoned. The psychiatrist plays with forces beyond his comprehension by trying to harness morrigan’s power, and is having an illicit relationship with one of the nurses. Morrigan and Klara escape with the help of another nurse who blackmails the psychiatrist because she is a wiccan and wants to help the girls.
The pair goes on to interact with ancient elementals to learn more and become masters. However, everything they do has the potential encourage demonic elementals, and the fire demon is on their track the whole time. Soon to be joined by an Ice dragon.
They interact with a minotaur in an abandoned mine, a black puma made of coal who can displace time and space, and ancient moose who lives in the bottom of a lake, a train station in perpetual limbo and an ancient cottonwood tree.
This stage of the graphic novel is called ‘Origins’, showing how Morrigan came to be a master of the elements.