So what happened to this villain from GHOST NIGHT?

Lately I’ve gotten a couple of questions about the GHOST NIGHT series that spoils the ending of GHOST IN THE LORE.

So if you haven’t read through the GHOST NIGHT series, STOP READING this post right now.

But if you have read through the ending of GHOST NIGHT, read on.

A few people emailed to ask about Rania Scorneus. Specifically, 1.) why she didn’t appear in GHOST IN THE SUN, and 2.) will she be coming back in future books.

For point number one, Rania Scorneus basically “noped out” as the modern parlance goes. She had been killed, the Umbarian Order had been militarily defeated, and she was widely known and hated throughout the Empire. But now everyone thinks she’s dead, and Rania doesn’t seen any reason to correct them. With her cloning alchemy, she’s effectively found a method of immortality so long as no one destroys her alchemical laboratory.

So why not let everyone keep on thinking that’s she dead? Rania can wait until most of the people who know about her die of old age, and she can spend that time profitably in arcane research, experimentation, and study, and also in preparing a covert network. . Then in fifty or sixty years when “Rania Scorneus” is simply a footnote in the historical record, she can act. Trying to conquer the Empire through sheer sorcerous might was clearly a failing strategy, so perhaps subversion and coercion will work better the second time around

As for point two, well…we’ll have to see when I write a new Caina book after DRAGONSKULL is done, won’t we? 🙂

-JM