I'm wrapping up Ch. 16, which means I should be starting Ch. 17 next week. The last chapter! I'm sure many people will be happy to see Elfin Descent go and to be honest, I'm one of them. I just did not enjoy writing a fantasy story about political intrigue as much as I do writing about warfare and combat.
Going forward, this is going to change. The next story in the Orc Dominion series is going to be about Agmar. Set a little further down the timeline, Agmar, his many bastard sons, and an army of green skinned orcs invade the Catabrian Tribes to fight and enslave the barbarian natives.
Agmar is a bigger dick than Trogar, but I am going full villain with him. That means he is going to be at least tactically competent and own what a jerk he is. However, this is going to be a short story, as Agmar is really just too dark to keep going for very long. Expect around four chapters. The story will be posted on this blog since it covers themes that are restricted from being posted on Literotica.
After that, it will be time to move onto Orc Dominion: Triumph. The Agmar story will set up the final conflict that takes place in this book. Triumph is going to be a little more ambitious, involving 5 main characters with interweaving plot lines. We're going to have one plotline set in Heste, Two in Thesta, One in the Angrian March, One in Zentara. I'll also be introducing real magic for the first time!
Before all that, though, I am going to take probably a month off to work on my Twine project. I am writing an interactive novel about a starship captain who gets injected with nanobots which change her body and control her behavior, resulting in numerous slutty situations. Your choices will determine which of 6 endings she gets. I'm already about 20% of the way done, and want to get to 40% before I post the first version. I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it in one month, but I at least hope to get to the 4 main endings. Then I can branch out and fill out the rest of it.
That's pretty much that. No preview this week, as Ch 15 doesn't really lend itself well to providing a preview.
So how extensive and powerful is this magic going to be?
ReplyDeleteIs it going to be like 'It's over 9000 I can kill an army with hax-powers', or will be more like 'I can conjure up a lightning bolt from out of my ass' level of power?
Either way, I cannot wait to see Agmar in action. That guy is probably going to Chevauchee his way through the Catabrians, probably committing terrible slaughter.
Actually, speaking of the Catabrians, what nation or tribe have you based them on, if any? (I'd like to know, so that I may have a rough idea on what they are like.)
I'm not saying their Pictish, but...
ReplyDeleteMagic is going to be subtle. It's not throwing around fireballs, it's conducting rituals that have more macro effects...like speeding up crop growth, creating storms, influencing dreams etc.
-I'm not saying their Pictish, but...-
ReplyDeletePictish huh... I wouldn't want to be Agmar!
The Pict's were some pretty scary fellows, even the Norse were cautious of them.
-Magic is going to be subtle. It's not throwing around fireballs, it's conducting rituals that have more macro effects...like speeding up crop growth, creating storms, influencing dreams etc.-
Yay. People often go the other route when it comes to their fantasy stories, instead of having the magic more in-line with that which was often thought of as being 'magic' and believed in in the old days.