Okay firstly: I love that you have musical themes at the beginning of each chapter. Hell yes!
Secondly, I am in love with the inspiration/world-building info at the end. Another hell yes! Please keep doing those. It really adds to to the whole thing.
Thirdly, why are shady people so interesting to read about? I love this little peek into Aisen's criminal background.
Oh and fourthly (is that a word lol) your research into making this as historically accurate as possible, even given that this is a fantasy story in a fantastic world with magic, etc, is really admirable and it shows in your writing. It is so easy to just hand wave away some stuff like, oh, that's just how it is, or, oh, it's *magic* but you DON'T and that's amazing. It shows how serious you are about your work.
I am so awful at getting my thoughts into words so I usually just do the whole OMG FROTHING AT THE MOUTH I LOVE THIS which is also true lol.
OMG, thank you so much, friendo. I love that you're here and enjoying the shady dudes and little history tidbits. Also, I noticed after I published that my spellchecker corrected "antidote" to "anecdote", lolol. Whoops.
as a complete history nerd myself, I'm loving all these references, but beyond that, the atmosphere you paint is so good. I feel like I'm in these times and places as I'm reading.
Why do I love the shady people so much. Honestly one of my favorite parts. The rewrites and cleanups made this chapter even better and I can't wait to see more of Niles and Hawke. I'm sad that Hawke may have a slightly diminished roll from original framework, but they can't all be major players can they.
Okay firstly: I love that you have musical themes at the beginning of each chapter. Hell yes!
Secondly, I am in love with the inspiration/world-building info at the end. Another hell yes! Please keep doing those. It really adds to to the whole thing.
Thirdly, why are shady people so interesting to read about? I love this little peek into Aisen's criminal background.
Oh and fourthly (is that a word lol) your research into making this as historically accurate as possible, even given that this is a fantasy story in a fantastic world with magic, etc, is really admirable and it shows in your writing. It is so easy to just hand wave away some stuff like, oh, that's just how it is, or, oh, it's *magic* but you DON'T and that's amazing. It shows how serious you are about your work.
I am so awful at getting my thoughts into words so I usually just do the whole OMG FROTHING AT THE MOUTH I LOVE THIS which is also true lol.
OMG, thank you so much, friendo. I love that you're here and enjoying the shady dudes and little history tidbits. Also, I noticed after I published that my spellchecker corrected "antidote" to "anecdote", lolol. Whoops.
Ahhh suuuuuuch a fun chapter with so much lore being dropped and the mixing of historical and fantasy slang. Loved it aaaaaalll
as a complete history nerd myself, I'm loving all these references, but beyond that, the atmosphere you paint is so good. I feel like I'm in these times and places as I'm reading.
Oh, and I love Evelyn's snark in her letter 😉
I loveee the background info!! You are amazing at what you do!🔥👏🏼
As always, I can’t waittt for the next drop!!
Thank you so much!!! And thank you for being here- the next chapter's a banger, hehe.
Why do I love the shady people so much. Honestly one of my favorite parts. The rewrites and cleanups made this chapter even better and I can't wait to see more of Niles and Hawke. I'm sad that Hawke may have a slightly diminished roll from original framework, but they can't all be major players can they.
I gotta be honest...sometimes I think the Forty Crows need their own side story/novella, but without Aisen, Tybs, ect. Lolol.
I keep thinking about writing out the framework for that Dwarven heist. Don't make me start thinking about 40 crows too.
We'll just add it to the ever-growing list of shorts we want to write, lol