SOUL OF SKULLS – the rough draft begins
On November 7th, 2012, I started writing the rough draft for SOUL OF SKULLS, the sixth book in the DEMONSOULED series about knight and adventurer Mazael Cravenlock. If all goes well, I hope to have the rough draft done sometime in January.
So, let’s have some previews of what’s coming in SOUL OF SKULLS:
-The San-keth will return, having been absent in SOUL OF SORCERY.
-A good portion of the book will take place at Knightcastle, Lord Malden Roland’s stronghold.
-Gerald Roland will be a point-of-view character for the first time. His wife (and Mazael’s sister) Rachel will return as a POV character.
-Malaric of Barellion will also be a POV character.
-We’ll encounter the Aegonar – a nation of seafaring humans that worship the serpent god Sepharivaim. Essentially, an entire nation of San-keth proselytes. Except while the usual San-keth proselytes abase themselves before the serpent people, the Aegonar are nothing like that. They consider themselves the chosen people of the serpent god, and regard the San-keth themselves the way some countries regard their constitutional monarchs – sort of as honored mascots, but with no actual power. Needless to say, the San-keth themselves regard the Aegonar as dangerous heterodox fanatics, but they can’t really do anything about them.
-Except, of course, for one particular San-keth cleric who is a bit more dangerous than the usual run of San-keth priest.
-We’ll also see the consequences of the Great Rising, since the spell raised thousands of runedead in every nation in the world. Some places managed to defend themselves, some are in various stages of civilizational collapse…and some were completely overrun by the runedead.
-Sir Hugh Chalsain, the youngest son of Prince Everard Chalsain of Barellion, will also be a new POV character.
Watch this space for future updates!
-JM
OH WOW…this book is going to be so epic!!! 😀
January, you can’t come soon enough! Satanist vikings!
Oh, and hello again Jonathan! I have not commented here in a while, I was really busy with college work back in October…and then Frankenstorm hit! Good lord that storm left a mess!
Me and my family lost our power for about four days straight! Besides freezing all night and day, living by flashlight, we had to throw out most of our refrigerated food, it went bad all those days without electricity, ice wouldn’t even do it. And then to make things more fun, we did not get our cable or internet back until another three days later.
But the real icing on the cake was election day, when Barack Obama was re-elected. *Sigh* Can’t a guy get a break!?!
So how’s life been treating you Jon? 😉
Seriously though, I was one of the lucky ones, many of the neighborhoods around me were hit bad, trees uprooted, others toppled over into houses, cars, you name it. We were very fortunate, thank God. Except the Obama part of the story, that was just tragic and uncalled for. 😉
“Me and my family lost our power for about four days straight! Besides freezing all night and day, living by flashlight, we had to throw out most of our refrigerated food, it went bad all those days without electricity, ice wouldn’t even do it. And then to make things more fun, we did not get our cable or internet back until another three days later.”
Very glad to hear you and your family came through! By all reports Sandy was a massive mess, and will continue to cause a massive mess for some time yet. So I’m glad you and yours came through (relatively) unscathed.
“Very glad to hear…” “So I’m glad you and…”
Thank you.
Yes we were very fortunate. A week without power was rough, but nowhere near as bad as having your home destroyed.
Having no power, we were somewhat in the dark about the extent of Sandy’s devastation, we knew it was going to be bad, but had no idea how bad it really was. While Sandy may have been only the second biggest storm in history, it takes the top prize in the devastation it caused (thats what I heard on the news anyhow). Did you know, even now, there are still people without electricity, water, etc? Thats crazy.
Yeah. We like to think we’re in control our lives, but something like this is a reminder that we’re are the mercy of so many things.