Reader Question Day #49 – new characters in GHOST IN THE FORGE

Note that this week’s Reader Question Day contains some spoilers for GHOST IN THE STONE.

Stefanie asks:

Hi, I was wondering if you’re planning on adding any new characters in Ghost in the Forge. Are any old characters going to come back? (Besides Kylon, we all know he has to come back) My friend and I love your books, even though shes way further behind then I am.

Thanks!

Kylon is definitely going to come back. The POV in GHOST IN THE FORGE will rotate between Caina, Corvalis, and Kylon.

Other old characters may come back. I haven’t decided which ones yet, since I haven’t finished writing the outline. I know how GHOST IN THE FORGE will begin, and how it will end, but I’m still a bit vague on the middle. So it hasn’t been entirely finalized yet (and, honestly, it won’t be finalized until I hit the PUBLISH button – I made some tweaks to the last scene between Caina and Corvalis literally twenty minutes before I put the book up.)

There will be some new characters, and a few of them will be connected to Corvalis. He had quite an eventful life before he met Caina, and did make some friends, along with some enemies. So some of them will seek him out.

Also, Caina has the Moroaica’s soul riding around inside her skull, and the Moroaica had a lot of enemies. Some of them might decide that the best way to get rid of the Moroaica is to deal with Caina.

Additionally, a few characters that have only been mentioned by name, like the First Magus, or Yaramzod the Black of Anshan, will appear for the first time, since some of the world’s most powerful sorcerers will gather in one place for reasons explained below.

Whats Caina’s next adventure?

Caina’s next adventure will be GHOST IN THE FORGE.

GHOST IN THE STONE will open up with Halfdan contacting Caina, immediately after the resolution of events in Cyrioch. The Masked Ones, a college of sorcerers ruling over the neutral city of Catecharon, claim to have created a weapon of sorcery so powerful that it will bring victory to whichever nation wields it.

And for some reason, the Masked Ones are offering this weapon to the highest bidder.

Caina is sent to make sure that the weapon goes to the Empire…or, better yet, that it is destroyed in an “accident.”

Also, I suspect people will want to know what happened after the last scene in the last chapter of GHOST IN THE STONE. So we’ll deal with that as well. 🙂

-JM