I think both Phil and I were pretty eager to model correct behavior through E-Merl in this moment. If we’d done this story ten years earlier, we might’ve made him a little angrier, just for a regrettable moment or two, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as I mentioned earlier, Rachel blurting out that she loved E-Merl instead of the other way around had not been my plan or Phil’s plan. But a general goes to war with the army they’ve got, and it did […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like Byron’s metaphor for the aging process, which feels like it’d emerge from his culture (not Battleshire, but the “ax-swingin’ trade” where he made friends with Braggadocio and Sundar). I also like our use of Syr’Nj’s history here, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For once Byron is more politically informed than his varryn-mate. Check yo’ privilege, Syr’Nj. At this time, I was perhaps as well-equipped to write this scene as I ever would be. Compared to many, I have had an easy life. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In an earlier version, the toll that saving the group took on Fr’Nj was going to be more personal; it was going to age her a bit… not to make her as old-looking as Faereksch’Nj, but maybe closer in age […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
