Random stuff.

I'm starting to get a clearer picture of just what these books are going to be. I've realized they'll be a lot less fantasy than I had originally suspected, and much more historical and religious fiction, depending on which book you're looking at. So many historical names will be showcased or actually make appearances. So many actual events will be used. And so much of the storyline will be laced with religious mythology. The only fantastic thing about the series will be that Rhia's an elf with magick, and the elfen part of her only exists so that she transcends time and can be the familiar face throughout the series. Science fiction plays a role with Rebecca O'Donnel being made into a cyborg in her novel, and with Liam and the Hunters, though the truth about all of that will remain with me for now. Science fiction joins the post-apocolyptic genre with the two novels I have planned for after Doomsday. Other than that, there is little I'll be using that isn't historically accurate (hopefully) or common belief. Elves, dragons, gryphons, and other creatures of those days are only going to be common during the first few novels before Rhia encounters humans and the series takes it's turn into the real storyline. After that, gryphons will be no more, dragons and elves will have all but been erased in the great War before Mesopotamia became a civilization, and what's left of them will either be departing the world of humans, living in secrecy, or disguised as humans. Sure, there will be a few vampires or wearwolves here and there, but those are creatures commonly interacting with humans in the world of fiction, not set apart in worlds like Middle Earth. This series will have a mixture of everything. Fantasy; science, historical, and religious fiction; but most importantly, Rhia's (therefore my) analysis of God, the nature of how this world and the others (Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory) are governed, and, of course, humans. I also hope to have at least one part of the series appeal to each kind of person. If one of the books isn't someone's taste, maybe they'll pick up the next and find it just to their liking. Perhaps they'll like mystery more than fantasy, and so would prefer one of the novels in which Rhia is in search of Seth, or when Kalvin is in search of Lain. Maybe they'd rather read something light-hearted, and so would enjoy the book I plan to write about when Rhia journeys with Jason on the Obsidian Seas and the trouble one Drow and his little cousin can wreak from port to port. Or maybe the reader is young, maybe a child. I hope to some day write a small graphic novel series about the adventures Rhini (young Rhia) had as a child in the Underground before she was exiled. They could read about her angsts growing up as a motherless, and at times it seemed, fatherless princess, being taught the ways of royalty by a cousin that would much rather help her learn how to make mischief than peace with their neighbors. I do hope to make this a very broad series that cannot be confined to one genre. Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia were fantasy. Left Behind was post-apocolyptic religious fiction. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was Science Fiction. All of this is obvious. But what of the Kolareny Chronicles? It won't be so easy to group the series into one genre. Each book individually, perhaps. But not the entire series. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the bookstores decide.