This all started from one character I inspired to design and all else is just thrown as I think it fits. I don't know if this happen any particular country, somewhere between steppes and some cities. Most likely it happens in my head. This video is pretty close of the vision I have of Tarina's places and people -> link
Plot
Whole thing could start with original link song, just like many Disney films do which introduces place and Tarina's clan.
Tarina is daughter of Khan and they have quite large and powerful clan. She has crush on one of her father's men, Vozmoshn, who's also her childhood friend and her life is in all ways happy.
Here in beginning there could also be Tarina's song, something like "Minne menee" which I have put at end of the article
Nearby another kingdom Shota tries to pressure Tarina's father to join their side and help them with a war they have against another kingdom. Tarina's father is however very reluctant to join war, he has lost his son in another battle and he's afraid to lose Tarina as well.
Once when Tarina's clan has travelled south, near to Shota, to sell their yearly products, Twonaama betray Khan and help Shotas kidnap Tarina. They keep her as a hostage in order to blackmail Khan into war. Same time they try to get Tarina abandon her culture and adopt Shota's, therefore when she eventually returns she would little by little turn her clan into Shota(complicated way to say "brainwash").
When Tarina arrives to Shota there could be song like "link" from Joseph King of dreams, a little threatening song where they tell of Shota and Tarina watch everything with fear and awe. There could also later be reprise where they teach Tarina of their manners.
Tarina got 3 other girls to teach her Shota's culture, Lamara, Sisko and Ruska. Tarina doesn't however accept new ways easily and she doesn't even want to, she's confused of culture shock and being teased of things she believed and had used to. Even though unhappy, Tarina comes at some level friends with her accompany.
One day the kingdom which Shota was fighting against conquer the city Tarina were kept. During all mayhem Tarina, Lamara, Sisko and Ruska manage to escape with help of little boy named Parka and they head to city named Tori to be safe from battles.
In Tori Tarina learns where her clan is and she decide to try get home. Her friends protest with this at first but decide to let her go. Tarina start to collect equipments for her journey.
Mean while Shota have noticed that Tarina has escaped and they send man names Ilkee after her. His orders are to kill her, as her father still hesitate to join them, and her friends for treason. Ilkee could soon guess where they have went and he arrive in Tori too. He was attacking Tarina's and her friends hiding place but Parka noticed him and tripped him down same time yelling others to run. They made narrow escape, but Parka got caught.
After that they all decide to follow Tarina to her clan, during journey Tarina teach them some survival skills and her culture. They also finally get to really know each other well through funny accidents and surprising revelations and become really close. They don't know that Ilkee is still after them though.
Middle of their journey there could be song like "link" from Brother Bear 2 when girls grow closer together, it would be however just one point of their journey and there'd be many other scenes where they try to get forward and survive.
When they reached near to Tarina's clan they for happy surprise meet Vozmoshn who's also happy to find Tarina.
On the next day Vozmoshn leaves to get them equipments as they didn't have enough for the rest of journey, when girls wait him return Ilkee ambush them. They try to escape but after a while Ilkee had them all caught. Tarina had managed to sent eagle shout signal(let's pretend that's some kind of Tarina's clan a commonly used mark signal of something between great distances)to Vozmoshn who turned around worried.
He made just in time to stop Ilkee and after their fight Ilkee fall in gorge.
Now they finally were able to reach the clan and Tarina's father were overjoyed.
Lamara, Sisko and Ruska decide also to stay with Tarina and the clan finally head back to north to its own lands. And Tarina and Vozmoshn naturally got married.
And at end there could be song like "link" from Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, you know, the happy ending song
The end
Tarina
Tarina is daughter of powerful Khan and they live nomadic life. She loves her people deeply and she likes colorfulness, ribbons and clothes. Tarina is also quite talented playing instruments. She has growing crush to her loyal childhood friend Vozmoshn. She loves nature though as being princess she's not always aware of all things required to wilderness life. She's quite open minded but she hates to change her habits and she won't stand any negative talk of her people. If people provoke her she shows that she has great temperament and can be unforgiving. She has lost her older brother in one battle when she was younger and as reminder of him Tarina keeps one shorter hair tress which he had sometimes teasingly cut.
Vozmoshn
Vozmozhn is one of Khan's most trusted men and he's really good hunter. He learned to ride before he could walk and he's really at home in saddle. Vozmozhn is quite a hermit in nature and even though he's not in any way socially awkward he often prefers his own company. He also really sarcastic and almost dour at the times but still Vozmozhn is caring and very loyal to his friends. He's in love with his childhood friend Tarina and he'd do anything for her.
He's slightly based on Snufkin if you have watched Moomins.
Khan
Khan is Tarina's father and leader of the clan. Many neighboring countries want to get him on their side as he's powerful leader. When he was younger he did join in several battles, as for sport like he'd say, but when he lost his son in battle he withdrawn from the fights and wished to live peacefully with his people. Tarina is most dearest thing to him and he wants to keep rest of his family as save as possible.
Shota
Shota is one nearly country which is determined to get Tarina's clan under their command. It's very warlike and is going on a war with one of its neighbour country.
Twonaama
Twonaama is one member of Tarina's clan who helped Shota's kidnap Tarina. Twonaama is crooked and dishonest and ready to anything for money. When Tarina eventually returns Twonaama is expelled.
Lamara
Lamara is few years older than Tarina and she acts very snobby. She sees all other girls lower as herself. Many times Lamara is hardest to Tarina and she's often selfish and very bossy. Often it seems like she doesn't even know how to keep fun. During girls' journey in wild life she finally reveals that her noble parents abandon her as a child and Shota's are only family she have left. After confessing that she became much closer to other girls.
She resembles little Ting Ting from Mulan 2
Sisko
Sisko is youngest of Tarina's company, she's adorable and outspoken. She often doesn't care Lamara's snobbish commands and she's the first one to make friends with Tarina. She can be kind of silly at times.
Ruska
Ruska is always "middle everything" person, she's not ugly but neither most beautiful, she's not stupid but neither smartest, she can sing but there's always someone who sings better. Ruska is more indoor person and rather socially inactive. She can be funny and make people laugh but she avoid pushing herself to others company. In wild Ruska is the first one to get used to Tarina's surviving advices and way of living. It turns out that she loves nature and animals and she's most happy to join with Tarina's clan.
Parka
Parka is one orphan Shota boy who help Tarina and her friends to escape from battle. He considered leaving with Tarina but when he warned girls about Ilkee he got caught.(I haven't figured out what happened to him exactly so let it be a mystery)
Tori
Tori is one quite large market city, it's central of many business and it have been saved from battles. When Tarina were in Tori she learns where her clan is and she starts planning a journey
Ilkee
Ilkee is employed by the Shota to get rid of Tarina, Lamara, Sisko and Ruska. He nearly got them caught in Tori but Parka ruined his ambush. Eventually he however got them caught on their journey but Vozmoshn stopped him, in result of their fight Ilkee fall in gorge.
You can see people designs are based on whatever google gave for "middle asian people" but I honestly don't know anything what there's like or what kind of culture they have.
All names are rather ridiculous and I made up all except Lamara which is real name. And Sisko is also real name though not Middle Asian. All names have meaning, though most of them just for lack of imagination. I think I could as well list them too, but I'm not in any way proud of these. If I come up with any better name ideas I'll probably change them.
Ilkee= Evil, not kind
Tori= Market
Parka= Poor
Ruska= Forest glowing with autumn tints(really, doesn't english have any better translation for one word?)
Sisko= Sister
Lamara= Bitter
Twonaama= Well, 2 and naama is face(I'm so creative)
Shota= Contortion of word sota, it means war.
Khan= Yeah, it's just a title.
Vozmoshn=It's from Russian word возможно, it means possible.
Tarina= Most creative one, it means "story" :P I also thought of Inkeri but it sounded too weird for her.
One of Tarina's songs I think could fit her Rölli's "link", music and lyrics by Allu Tuppurainen.
Lyric(Not really the best ones but illustrative purposes only)
Minne menee taivaan pilvet nuo
Where the clouds on the sky go
ja minne aurinko laskeutuu?
and where the sun descends?
Minne menee päiväksi tähdet nuo
Where the stars go for a day
ja mistä tulee täysikuu?
and where comes the full moon?
Minne menee muuttolinnut nuo
Where the migratory birds go
ja mistä tulee lumi valkoinen?
and where white snow comes?
Mistä tulee lehdet metsän puun?
Where comes leaves of forest tree?
Vaikka mietin, ymmärrä en.
Though I ponder, I don't understand.
(chorus)
Mutta kuitenkin tiedän sen,
But still I know one thing,
ne täytyy säilyttää,
them must be preserved
pois vaihtais en.
I wouldn't change them away.
Ilman niitä ois elämäni haikeaa,
Without them my life would be plaintive,
ilman niitä ois kaikki vaikeaa.
without them everything would be hard.
Mistä tulee vesi järvien
Where water of lakes comes
ja minne menee kala pikkuinen?
and where little fish goes?
Mistä tulee kukkaset metsien.
Where flowers of forests come.
Vaikka mietin, ymmärrä en.
Though I ponder, I don't understand.
(chorus)
Minne menee muuttolinnut nuo
Where the migratory birds go
ja mistä tulee lumi valkoinen?
and where white snow comes?
Mistä tulee lehdet metsän puun?
Where comes leaves of forest tree?
Vaikka mietin, ymmärrä en.
Though I ponder, I don't understand.
Plot
Whole thing could start with original link song, just like many Disney films do which introduces place and Tarina's clan.
Tarina is daughter of Khan and they have quite large and powerful clan. She has crush on one of her father's men, Vozmoshn, who's also her childhood friend and her life is in all ways happy.
Here in beginning there could also be Tarina's song, something like "Minne menee" which I have put at end of the article
Nearby another kingdom Shota tries to pressure Tarina's father to join their side and help them with a war they have against another kingdom. Tarina's father is however very reluctant to join war, he has lost his son in another battle and he's afraid to lose Tarina as well.
Once when Tarina's clan has travelled south, near to Shota, to sell their yearly products, Twonaama betray Khan and help Shotas kidnap Tarina. They keep her as a hostage in order to blackmail Khan into war. Same time they try to get Tarina abandon her culture and adopt Shota's, therefore when she eventually returns she would little by little turn her clan into Shota(complicated way to say "brainwash").
When Tarina arrives to Shota there could be song like "link" from Joseph King of dreams, a little threatening song where they tell of Shota and Tarina watch everything with fear and awe. There could also later be reprise where they teach Tarina of their manners.
Tarina got 3 other girls to teach her Shota's culture, Lamara, Sisko and Ruska. Tarina doesn't however accept new ways easily and she doesn't even want to, she's confused of culture shock and being teased of things she believed and had used to. Even though unhappy, Tarina comes at some level friends with her accompany.
One day the kingdom which Shota was fighting against conquer the city Tarina were kept. During all mayhem Tarina, Lamara, Sisko and Ruska manage to escape with help of little boy named Parka and they head to city named Tori to be safe from battles.
In Tori Tarina learns where her clan is and she decide to try get home. Her friends protest with this at first but decide to let her go. Tarina start to collect equipments for her journey.
Mean while Shota have noticed that Tarina has escaped and they send man names Ilkee after her. His orders are to kill her, as her father still hesitate to join them, and her friends for treason. Ilkee could soon guess where they have went and he arrive in Tori too. He was attacking Tarina's and her friends hiding place but Parka noticed him and tripped him down same time yelling others to run. They made narrow escape, but Parka got caught.
After that they all decide to follow Tarina to her clan, during journey Tarina teach them some survival skills and her culture. They also finally get to really know each other well through funny accidents and surprising revelations and become really close. They don't know that Ilkee is still after them though.
Middle of their journey there could be song like "link" from Brother Bear 2 when girls grow closer together, it would be however just one point of their journey and there'd be many other scenes where they try to get forward and survive.
When they reached near to Tarina's clan they for happy surprise meet Vozmoshn who's also happy to find Tarina.
On the next day Vozmoshn leaves to get them equipments as they didn't have enough for the rest of journey, when girls wait him return Ilkee ambush them. They try to escape but after a while Ilkee had them all caught. Tarina had managed to sent eagle shout signal(let's pretend that's some kind of Tarina's clan a commonly used mark signal of something between great distances)to Vozmoshn who turned around worried.
He made just in time to stop Ilkee and after their fight Ilkee fall in gorge.
Now they finally were able to reach the clan and Tarina's father were overjoyed.
Lamara, Sisko and Ruska decide also to stay with Tarina and the clan finally head back to north to its own lands. And Tarina and Vozmoshn naturally got married.
And at end there could be song like "link" from Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, you know, the happy ending song
The end
Tarina
Tarina is daughter of powerful Khan and they live nomadic life. She loves her people deeply and she likes colorfulness, ribbons and clothes. Tarina is also quite talented playing instruments. She has growing crush to her loyal childhood friend Vozmoshn. She loves nature though as being princess she's not always aware of all things required to wilderness life. She's quite open minded but she hates to change her habits and she won't stand any negative talk of her people. If people provoke her she shows that she has great temperament and can be unforgiving. She has lost her older brother in one battle when she was younger and as reminder of him Tarina keeps one shorter hair tress which he had sometimes teasingly cut.
Vozmoshn
Vozmozhn is one of Khan's most trusted men and he's really good hunter. He learned to ride before he could walk and he's really at home in saddle. Vozmozhn is quite a hermit in nature and even though he's not in any way socially awkward he often prefers his own company. He also really sarcastic and almost dour at the times but still Vozmozhn is caring and very loyal to his friends. He's in love with his childhood friend Tarina and he'd do anything for her.
He's slightly based on Snufkin if you have watched Moomins.
Khan
Khan is Tarina's father and leader of the clan. Many neighboring countries want to get him on their side as he's powerful leader. When he was younger he did join in several battles, as for sport like he'd say, but when he lost his son in battle he withdrawn from the fights and wished to live peacefully with his people. Tarina is most dearest thing to him and he wants to keep rest of his family as save as possible.
Shota
Shota is one nearly country which is determined to get Tarina's clan under their command. It's very warlike and is going on a war with one of its neighbour country.
Twonaama
Twonaama is one member of Tarina's clan who helped Shota's kidnap Tarina. Twonaama is crooked and dishonest and ready to anything for money. When Tarina eventually returns Twonaama is expelled.
Lamara
Lamara is few years older than Tarina and she acts very snobby. She sees all other girls lower as herself. Many times Lamara is hardest to Tarina and she's often selfish and very bossy. Often it seems like she doesn't even know how to keep fun. During girls' journey in wild life she finally reveals that her noble parents abandon her as a child and Shota's are only family she have left. After confessing that she became much closer to other girls.
She resembles little Ting Ting from Mulan 2
Sisko
Sisko is youngest of Tarina's company, she's adorable and outspoken. She often doesn't care Lamara's snobbish commands and she's the first one to make friends with Tarina. She can be kind of silly at times.
Ruska
Ruska is always "middle everything" person, she's not ugly but neither most beautiful, she's not stupid but neither smartest, she can sing but there's always someone who sings better. Ruska is more indoor person and rather socially inactive. She can be funny and make people laugh but she avoid pushing herself to others company. In wild Ruska is the first one to get used to Tarina's surviving advices and way of living. It turns out that she loves nature and animals and she's most happy to join with Tarina's clan.
Parka
Parka is one orphan Shota boy who help Tarina and her friends to escape from battle. He considered leaving with Tarina but when he warned girls about Ilkee he got caught.(I haven't figured out what happened to him exactly so let it be a mystery)
Tori
Tori is one quite large market city, it's central of many business and it have been saved from battles. When Tarina were in Tori she learns where her clan is and she starts planning a journey
Ilkee
Ilkee is employed by the Shota to get rid of Tarina, Lamara, Sisko and Ruska. He nearly got them caught in Tori but Parka ruined his ambush. Eventually he however got them caught on their journey but Vozmoshn stopped him, in result of their fight Ilkee fall in gorge.
You can see people designs are based on whatever google gave for "middle asian people" but I honestly don't know anything what there's like or what kind of culture they have.
All names are rather ridiculous and I made up all except Lamara which is real name. And Sisko is also real name though not Middle Asian. All names have meaning, though most of them just for lack of imagination. I think I could as well list them too, but I'm not in any way proud of these. If I come up with any better name ideas I'll probably change them.
Ilkee= Evil, not kind
Tori= Market
Parka= Poor
Ruska= Forest glowing with autumn tints(really, doesn't english have any better translation for one word?)
Sisko= Sister
Lamara= Bitter
Twonaama= Well, 2 and naama is face(I'm so creative)
Shota= Contortion of word sota, it means war.
Khan= Yeah, it's just a title.
Vozmoshn=It's from Russian word возможно, it means possible.
Tarina= Most creative one, it means "story" :P I also thought of Inkeri but it sounded too weird for her.
One of Tarina's songs I think could fit her Rölli's "link", music and lyrics by Allu Tuppurainen.
Lyric(Not really the best ones but illustrative purposes only)
Minne menee taivaan pilvet nuo
Where the clouds on the sky go
ja minne aurinko laskeutuu?
and where the sun descends?
Minne menee päiväksi tähdet nuo
Where the stars go for a day
ja mistä tulee täysikuu?
and where comes the full moon?
Minne menee muuttolinnut nuo
Where the migratory birds go
ja mistä tulee lumi valkoinen?
and where white snow comes?
Mistä tulee lehdet metsän puun?
Where comes leaves of forest tree?
Vaikka mietin, ymmärrä en.
Though I ponder, I don't understand.
(chorus)
Mutta kuitenkin tiedän sen,
But still I know one thing,
ne täytyy säilyttää,
them must be preserved
pois vaihtais en.
I wouldn't change them away.
Ilman niitä ois elämäni haikeaa,
Without them my life would be plaintive,
ilman niitä ois kaikki vaikeaa.
without them everything would be hard.
Mistä tulee vesi järvien
Where water of lakes comes
ja minne menee kala pikkuinen?
and where little fish goes?
Mistä tulee kukkaset metsien.
Where flowers of forests come.
Vaikka mietin, ymmärrä en.
Though I ponder, I don't understand.
(chorus)
Minne menee muuttolinnut nuo
Where the migratory birds go
ja mistä tulee lumi valkoinen?
and where white snow comes?
Mistä tulee lehdet metsän puun?
Where comes leaves of forest tree?
Vaikka mietin, ymmärrä en.
Though I ponder, I don't understand.