WIP Update – 19 Feb 17
Guess what. More genealogy. I switched over from Cunedda to Macsen. There are fewer kiddos to deal with, but it’s still quite a tangle. I had to compress a couple generations to get everything to fit in the timeframe I have set for the story. Now, you might wonder why I do all this, other than my OCD. Well, the complex web of marriage alliances and such are critical for having a clear picture of the political landscape of the story and the more legwork I do, the better it’ll play out in the story proper.
Take, for instance, Chapter 3 where Constantine seeks to be acclaimed King of the Britons to buttress his claim to Emperor of Rome. We have appearances by Owain Finddu and Aurelius Ambrosius, but they wouldn’t be there if I hadn’t done to work to establish their relationship in the grand scheme of things. (Owain being the son of Macsen Wledig, a previous pretender to the throne of Rome, and King of the Silures and Aurelius Ambrosius being King of Gloucester and Constantine’s brother-in-law.) It’ll all pay off in the end, but I could literally devote a month or two just to squaring away the major families. Whee fun. (Oh, who am I kidding? I love this stuff.)
I had a decent start in the week, but I let the peripheral materials consume me. Necessary, yes, but it’s not going to get TSoA1 where it needs to be for launch anytime soon. Now it’s time to switch over to TBP. Stay tuned.
Tags: Arthurian, Earth Arc, The Seeds of Avalon, TSoA1, WIP Update
Arthurian, Earth Arc, The Seeds of Avalon, TSoA1, WIP Update | James Carmack | 20 February 2017 |
