So, Aurora. Where do I start?
If you have read my previous post about my prologue - Betrayal, then you will know the story of how it started. This comes directly after.
When I finished writing the prologue, I realised that all of the notes I had written and the characters I had thought of, none of them were in it, so I had the strange idea to set the story 900 years later…
I know, I know.
Typical fantasy novel skipping a massive amount of time and not starting the story straight away from that point. There is a reason for the prologue and it will all make sense, I promise.
Now Aurora. She was the first character I came up with after Folknor (the POV in my prologue). She is the heroine of my story, the girl I wanted to write about. I had the idea that she would be my main protagonist and carry the story on her own, but oh how I was wrong. Yes, she is the main protagonist, but with a few additions, ones that I will get to later.
Aurora is a girl on the verge of womanhood who has been sheltered from the world to a point as she has never left her village of Arrowedge. She knows how to survive because her father is a hunter who taught Aurora and her sister everything he knows about trees, plants, and how to hunt small game. But there is a problem, Aurora has a great love of animals. She has a connection to them that runs deeper than she could have possibly thought. So, when the unthinkable happens (I will let you read the book) she is thrust into a world she knows nothing about and she has to learn and adapt if she wants to survive in a world of men, death and majic.
But that isn’t the only story that is told in Book One. I have Aurora’s story of course, but I also have the perspective of Kantos and how his actions impact within the world. My antagonist, King Neymar, who is a brutal ruler that has no value for life other than his own. The ever present warrior monk Valdor, who harbours great knowledge and secrets. And also a few other characters pop in and out making various comments that could mean something or nothing.
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