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  "The Ethereal Elixir" is a story about a young Prince named Sairek Ceareste who leaves his sheltered life in his castle to explore the open world. He goes out on a journey to find out the true circumstances of his mother's illness, an illness which had killed her when he was still only a toddler.
...Or is he really? His own doubts leave him to believe that he is only making excuses for himself and is merely trying to escape the daunting responsibilities of needing to run a country—a responsibility he curses on a daily basis, a responsibility given to him by nothing more than being born in 'royal blood', in his eyes.

In his journey, he will meet and befriend a young girl from the countryside who will teach him how different one's life can be by just being born in different circumstances and who helps educate him much about not only the world, but what being ‘loyal’ means. Loyal, not in just a subject who will follow him for being born with the title he has, but someone who will teach him what the true meaning of friendship is and stays with him for who he is, rather than what he is.
Sairek will also meet another boy who is kind in heart... A demon; cursed by not only his birth for being born in the human world, but also cursed by being the type of demon he is, making his circumstances incredibly difficult in his environment - grasping the difficulties of struggling with what he is versus who he is. Sairek will realize just how cruel fate can be, not only from this demon he befriends, but eventually from his own circumstances as well. Although two completely different figures in the terms of society and even in biology, Sairek recognizes just how similar the both of them truly are to each other despite physically, being worlds apart.
Sairek will meet one more boy, a mercenary who struggles with his own identity in life and faces extreme hardships on a near daily basis as he tries to puzzle who he was before he had forgotten, but through that search, becomes enshrouded in an event that causes Sairek to question the purpose of nobility in general. Through him, Sairek struggles with decisions of what is considered “right” versus what is considered “good”, and must question what he defines “justice” to be.

He is a Prince, "shackled by the binds of nobility". He is fated to run a country by birth regardless of whether he likes it or not. Such grand responsibilities must eventually be faced, or they may come invading into his life; harming not only his subjects, but also ripping away from what he has grown to treasure most on his enlightening journey. Sairek, ignorant and sheltered from his time living in his protected castle, goes out on his journey and learns just how shady, cut-throat and unforgiving the world can truly be.

He must decide at his young age just how much his responsibilities and what is expected of him to his kingdom can test the bonds of his relationships with his friends, subjects and even himself. Should he surrender 'who he is' versus 'what he is' to appease his responsibility to his country, or does he throw it all away and doom his country selfishly for himself and his friends? Should he shake the foundations of the world order to appease the mass public, or toss it into disarray because it is the “right” thing to do?

 

 

 

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Please be warned, this story contains very mature themes that may not be suitable, or may be offensive to some readers. These themes do involve minors. Ethereal Elixir while being light-hearted at times and isn't dark and 'edgy' for the sake of just being 'dark and edgy', is nonetheless, a serious story about a boy and his friends who do experience extreme hardships, just like sometimes we may experience in real life. People do crimes, do disgusting things, have offensive values and abuse others. Children also makes mistakes, and sometimes have to learn the hard way from those mistakes. Just like in real life, life can be light-hearted and joyous at times and some events may lead to very dark or even criminal situations as well.

While I want to spoil as little as possible in the synopsis or this warning, as well in that these themes are not the main driving point of the story, the story still involves minors that are on the cusp of being teenagers in a fantasy world and will experience situations of:
Violence, death, scenes of sexual nature such as recognizing one's own sexuality, questioning one’s sexual orientation and learning what one’s body can do.
Other scenes contain abuse and contain topics and plots related to that of racial differences (albeit, with humans and demons).
Just like how we struggle with some problems in the real world and there are people that do truly horrible crimes, this fantasy world has its own problems and struggles that these characters must face, too.
This is not a story that everyone will be comfortable with and I understand that. If any of these themes may be offensive or triggering to you, then I would strongly suggest turning away, and I advise to remember that despite how uncomfortable or offensive some scenes may be, that this is fiction. It is not real and no real persons and locations are involved with my writing.

All views, opinions or otherwise that are written are, not written to express the authors' own views and opinions! They are written explicitly for each fictional characters' views and opinions themselves. The characters and the setting itself is written in such a way to be intentionally and critically flawed in many areas!

I strongly urge you be at least 18 or older to read the content that is written here. While the story isn't nowhere near completion at the time of writing this and may be subject to change, what content in the story that is currently there is written with an adult reader in mind and already includes some of the above themes.

Other than that, I hope you enjoy the story. This story is 100% free. I have not put up any ads or anything as I do not wish to monetize off of some of the heavier and taboo themes within the story (if there are any ads, that's Blogger's doing - not mine). I simply want to write and share my story that I am creating with the world.

No parts of this story may be republished, profited or posted anywhere else without the author's express permission.

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Current State:

It's been nearly two years, but Chapter 56 has been published at long last! Yaaaay!  \o/


My health problems are unfortunately still not remedied. More and more complications keep popping up, delaying other operations and surgeries that need to be done until those are handled first. For example, some stuff cannot be done while my blood pressure was a whopping 197 over 113 (that is very bad). My blood pressure over this time has lowered down to 166 over 93 (whilst not on medication for it), which is still not good, but it's not in the "near-imminent death" range, so... that's good! I like living, after all.

It's going to be a long process, too long - probably many years (aside from the first two that have passed from my hiatus). The financial problems are at least mostly alleviated for me though, for now. Most of the medical stuff is now confirmed to be covered, which is a huge weight off of my shoulders. For the stuff that isn't covered, having to deal with it will probably be years away anyway, so there's no need for me to fret about it now anyway.


During this hiatus, I had many thoughts about what to do with the story in regards to this blog. Google who currently owns blogger, has a habit of killing off many things, and I wouldn't be surprised if Blogger itself will be soon or at least an eventuality. And if not that, probably become inundated with lots of AI junk or scraping.
Because of that, I am thinking of migrating the story to AO3. AO3 has existed for a long time and is privately owned and the formatting there would probably be better suited for a story like this. My only concern is that AO3 drafts only last 1 month, and then they get deleted and as much as I wish I could, I certainly do not write that quickly; so I will more-than-likely need to save my drafts elsewhere.

For the current time being though, the blog will not be going anywhere and I will continue to post chapters here (as slow as they are). Even if I post the story onto AO3, I'll probably continue to post them here until further notice. It's not like I make money writing them here, so it should be fine.

Chapters up until chapter 66 have been in draft/story board mode during my hiatus, so I won't be writing these completely from scratch, but given my medical issues are still a problem still, I don't have an estimation when chapter 57 will be up, but it shouldn't be longer than a few months hopefully.