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If you remember, I made this awesome map of the world:
Now I know it is kinda hard to see from this picture, but I used a grid to draw this map. Using that grid, I started to work on a history of the world, starting from ancient times. Currently my Human History is pretty much caught up to the timeline of the story I am currently working on. I'm still working on the history of the Elves, Dwarves, Okreds, Saphids, and Goryons. I believe even the Dragon's might have their own history story as well, since they are important creatures in the world - they are also really connected to Elvish and Goryon history.
I've created brief mentions of stories that I can probably evolve into short stories later on down the road, or be referenced in bigger stories that I do, like the one I am currently working on (which I've already done a little bit of). It is rather interesting to see how I am slowly making everything connect together and have its own little purpose.
If you remember the protagonist, Illum, you'd know he is kinda a complex character. Well now with a few tweaks to his backstory and the wording i use in the story I'm working on, Illum has become a very complex character. The bad part about this is I've created a sad almost tragic backstory for him, and I know that as the story progresses that Illum will have to deal with his tragic past in order to grow.
* isn't character development lovely *
Even Yarmik, who was originally intended to be just a typical villain character, has an even more tragic backstory and reasons to explain why he is the person that he is. I know it's crazy to think that there could be a villain you can empathize with. Welp, Yarmik has become that way for me and it is crazy. The worst part about it is that Yarmik isn't the protagonist and so I can't exactly develop his character throughout the story. But I believe I might be able to push an important lesson using Yarmik as an example :)
Even the overall antagonist, Yurid, has a huge reasons that explains why he is "evil." Yurid might have one of the more tragic backstories of all the characters. Going from a great prince, to a broken man, to the monster he is. It is really sad. Again, I probably could push another lesson based on the story of Yurid.
Even Perseus Bruqon has a sad background. A common theme among characters I believe :)
Percy has to face his past as well and since he is more around the Protagonist, Illum, for a vast majority of the series, readers will be able to watch him grow as well.
Really the only flat character would be Randal and he isn't even that flat. He has his own backstory and reasons for why he does what he does. Some of which are sad. Randal will be an interesting character to see develop as I progress in the story.
To be honest with you, my favorite character besides Illum would either be Prince Maollan or Mivius Bijor.
Maollan is an amazing character and his story is heartbreaking. Well he also is a strong character and wise when he needs to be. Maollan is going to be one of the focal points of being able to write out and explain my favorite theme in this story. It's gonna be awesome!
That's pretty much it. It's interesting trying to make a compelling story even at the early stages of writing. And I think of all the planning that has gone into this story - to which I started almost a year ago.
Have an epic day!
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