Book Five Updates - Knighthood's End!
Well, here we are at page 207 on the rough draft for Forging of a Knight Book Five: Knighthood’s End, and it’s only now starting to heat up!
Why so dramatic a title? Well, a lot of loose threads are being tied up with this one.
Anyone who has been following the series knows that a cowardly knight by the name of Sir Rutt escaped from the mist-hidden isles of Sargossia during a battle, while Qualtan and the other knights were seeking out the lair of Darksiege, one of Those That Stand in Shadow, way back in Book Two – Rise of the Slavekeepers.
Since then, you’ve been seeing snippets of what happened to him, and where he’s ended up.
His fate is now in the hands of a Lord Thule, and if anyone remembers Book One, they will recall this rather devious merchant lord was Glaive’s former employer, who betrayed him.
Well, these two were bound to meet again to settle the score, and it will include the fate of Sir Rutt, as well as a certain life-leeching Mah-Zakim that was vaguely hinted at in Book One (can anyone figure out where?!) whom Qualtan gets to meet and ends up falling under her spell...or does he?
The curse of the Haegtes (remember her?), could it be finally coming true? For the sake of a forbidden love, Qualtan will find himself on the run with the Mah-Zakim in a race to free her from her curse, or be consumed by it. With everyone turned against him, his powers at their lowest ebb, Qualtan has seemingly gone in opposition to his knighthood, the Alliance, and his friends. Is he in love, or is he being manipulated by the Mah-Zakim? Can such a creature truly love back? If he can find her a cure, how great will the price be that must be paid?
This one is going to bring a bunch of old faces back: Sir Rutt, Lord Thule, his bodyguard M’Shua, and his wizard Caurn. How about Bartholomew and Euric? The return of Cassandra and the other Arch-Mages? Jesepha and Visandus? Termenon the elf prince? Even a certain glow-in-the-dark knight whose horse can fly and whose face turns into a leering skull?
The ending will have quite a surprise, and it’s going to stay, with a cliffhanger that brings back...well, we’ll see. Just getting this close to the midpoint has been exciting, but exhausting, with a lot of tweaks along the way, and this is still just the crude write-up before I need to go back once its all done and iron things out. It’s funny, I’ll write a single statement to summarize a given scene (i.e., “X confronts Y on such-and-such subject; X gets mad at the result”), and then fleshing out that scene takes up like seven to ten pages. Still, that’s the fun part, until I start to look at a list of like 32+ statements and start doing the math…
More to come.
Why so dramatic a title? Well, a lot of loose threads are being tied up with this one.
Anyone who has been following the series knows that a cowardly knight by the name of Sir Rutt escaped from the mist-hidden isles of Sargossia during a battle, while Qualtan and the other knights were seeking out the lair of Darksiege, one of Those That Stand in Shadow, way back in Book Two – Rise of the Slavekeepers.
Since then, you’ve been seeing snippets of what happened to him, and where he’s ended up.
His fate is now in the hands of a Lord Thule, and if anyone remembers Book One, they will recall this rather devious merchant lord was Glaive’s former employer, who betrayed him.
Well, these two were bound to meet again to settle the score, and it will include the fate of Sir Rutt, as well as a certain life-leeching Mah-Zakim that was vaguely hinted at in Book One (can anyone figure out where?!) whom Qualtan gets to meet and ends up falling under her spell...or does he?
The curse of the Haegtes (remember her?), could it be finally coming true? For the sake of a forbidden love, Qualtan will find himself on the run with the Mah-Zakim in a race to free her from her curse, or be consumed by it. With everyone turned against him, his powers at their lowest ebb, Qualtan has seemingly gone in opposition to his knighthood, the Alliance, and his friends. Is he in love, or is he being manipulated by the Mah-Zakim? Can such a creature truly love back? If he can find her a cure, how great will the price be that must be paid?
This one is going to bring a bunch of old faces back: Sir Rutt, Lord Thule, his bodyguard M’Shua, and his wizard Caurn. How about Bartholomew and Euric? The return of Cassandra and the other Arch-Mages? Jesepha and Visandus? Termenon the elf prince? Even a certain glow-in-the-dark knight whose horse can fly and whose face turns into a leering skull?
The ending will have quite a surprise, and it’s going to stay, with a cliffhanger that brings back...well, we’ll see. Just getting this close to the midpoint has been exciting, but exhausting, with a lot of tweaks along the way, and this is still just the crude write-up before I need to go back once its all done and iron things out. It’s funny, I’ll write a single statement to summarize a given scene (i.e., “X confronts Y on such-and-such subject; X gets mad at the result”), and then fleshing out that scene takes up like seven to ten pages. Still, that’s the fun part, until I start to look at a list of like 32+ statements and start doing the math…
More to come.
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