As some already know, the blog of Seville wrote my novel being published Dark times for deliveries , I wrote five years ago, which is not much time actually, but when I reread the chapters seems as if he had written decades ago. I already mentioned some things about the novel in a previous blog entry, now I will tell you some interesting facts.
I leave the link to the published chapters, in case anyone happened to you:
Prologue: Night and Dark
Chapter I: Hell Was A City
Chapter II: Heart in Velvet
Chapter III: Deep Night
Chapter IV: Scarlet Bedroom
Chapter V: Open all Night
The chapter titles are in English for a reason, they are all song titles Marc Almond, also the title of novel "Dark Ages" I took from one of his songs. Marc Almond discovered as a teenager, I was about sixteen or seventeen years and is definitely my favorite singer. Over the years I have enjoyed many other groups and other voices, but they go in spurts, I listen to a disk and then left, but Marc was always there, the voice in which I support in bad moments and I came in good. And this was my little tribute.
There are many tributes in this novel. First the world where it is set, Dragonlance is one of my favorite fantasy worlds, but this was not something sought, environment history in this world because I was interested readers to read it and prodded me to write it.
In these first chapters have been presenting the main characters, of which only one, Ladonna, is a character from Dragonlance, and one very minor which leaves little in the books of the saga, I'm not afraid to take characters other and work with them, but did not want to, wanted to build my own characters and make my own history though he had gotten into an existing frame.
Hefaistion and Krateros are Greek names, I took them out of the companions of Alexander the Great. Alexander I loved reading the novels of Mary Renault and so I left a small tribute. There who told me if Kratos Krateros Negrete came from, but when I wrote this had not yet read Negrete and you will see that my character is very different from yours, I guess just drink two from the same source.
Ulric Velia and characters are born in an old novel I wrote when I was twenty years are not exact to the originals but the germ was there. Veli name I took from a dictionary Swedish or Norwegian, not quite remember right now, I chose it because I liked the sound and meaning, do not remember right now. As a curiosity, Veli is the cousin of a clergyman who had been in a game of role, if any reference in the novel "cousin" is that character. Ulric was about to be called Ciric, but in the end I liked the first.
Thera was also born in another earlier story, which claimed to be my alter ego, but in reality Thera does not seem to me, is more like me would be: courageous, determined, impulsive, always optimistic. It has a bit of D'Artagnan or Captain Kirk, ranging from lead, but it can not be taken too seriously. The name comes from a Greek island, Greece is one of my weaknesses.
Natte Lyuda and of course had to be a pair of brothers in the novel, Eliza and Neal sibling whose names recall a bit to yours. Lyuda is a little like Eliza, capricious, headstrong, willing to do anything to get their wish, however Natte not like Neal, Natte name I took from Joram's sword, there a character I love, Simkim, does nothing but talk about his brother Nate who does not come out in the novel, is perhaps the most hidden tribute. I tried to give Natte character traits that I like, as the extravagance of Simkim; Simkim always wearing a orange scarf and Natte also has a color that is green. I hesitated a lot about the color I was going to give in the end I went for the green thanks to a gift Leydhen me of that color, and I think it was a success. I tried to go cold as Derek Sagan, cunning as Raistlin, which was mysterious and attractive.
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The first part of the novel is set in a specific location : Sanction, is a city that is well documented and much research was to represent it, as if making a historical novel. The inn "The cherry tree is an invention of mine, but the rest of the city, temples, volcanoes, all this is exactly as described in the many novels saga. If you are curious, after I wrote a very comprehensive article about the city. Sanction
One more interesting if you come to Chapter V. The stairs are a recurrent feature I use a lot, but unconsciously. Once I was rambling about it in the blog on this topic: Stairs
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