I'm happy to say Truthseekers is making good progress. I am over halfway done with this draft. I have filled in much of what I wanted in the first half, and there have been a couple of chapters I'm happy to say I don't need to touch (until my critique group gets a hold of them).
I discovered another nugget the other day. It's one of those things that hit me when I'm either in the car or the shower. My best scenes have hit me in both places. I discovered that Lord Morgan and Sir Malaki are brothers. I was thinking about some of the names, and how in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, siblings have names that either sound similar or start with the same letter. I switched it up with Lord Zelphrey (Lord Morgan's grandfather), and made his older brother Zaphron. Then it hit me, I can't remember now exactly why, but what if Lord Morgan was the younger of two brothers, like his father had been. Instead of having his older brother deceased, I discovered he was disowned. I'm thinking it was about the time of the War of Liberation. Malaki fell for the lure of a young maiden, and tried to sabotage his family and land. He was found out before it was too late, and disowned and cast out of Glendolan. Morgan in turn would take the proverbial torch and pass down the knowledge that should have gone to the first born, but was unworthy of it. Malaki is ambition enough to make a name for himself, and never tells anyone where he came from... expect Queen Madalyn knows. It is specifically why she has used him for all of these years...
So, I'm thinking about working that into the story. It would work just fine without it, but it adds a level of intrigue I really like...
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