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@claire-h, I know the feeling. That’s partly why I cheated and just used a historical backdrop so I don’t have to build EVERYTHING. Lol. No, historical fantasy just replaces brainstorming with research because unless one wants to go whole hog and rewrite an alt history with a rationale for why things changed, one still must follow the big events.

I’m curious about the religion you’ve invented for your story. I understand there’s a cult (which I would expect given the Greek inspiration) but what is the mainstream religion? Are you going for a trinitarian inspired faith, or something a little less directly allegorical to Christianity? Or are there two cults going against the mainstream – one wicked and controlling things, and one good that isn’t so much a cult as an entirely new religion?

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I’m a dungeon master in a couple of Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, and for my settings I tend to create centralized trinitarian faiths, with the rest of the fantastical pantheon existing as saints, angels, or demons. I’m by no means great at it, but it’s something I’ve played around with a fair amount.

Yeah – it can make it difficult to practice sometimes. I would like to just hammer out stories and pulp stuff to practice and publicize, but it’s difficult to summon the motivation to do something that I know is not going to be my best work. Like there’s whole other settings stuck in my head, but Rest for the Wicked is the one that feels important.

Myrrha – heheheh… she’s a character, figuratively and literally. (Okay, author puns are done, though rhyming in good timing. Okay I’ll stop.) Yeah, the temptation part – drawn from a combination of the Exorcist / other supernatural horror, but mostly, well… mostly drawing on my own experience of sin. No my eyes don’t roll back in my head and turn dark as pitch, but it’s that feeling of being an utter slave to something comstory pletely out of your control. It’s a discomfiting experience to say the least.

That’s the one thing about MCs – I can’t figure out who exactly is the MC. It feels like that hat gets tossed between Erhard, Kyreleis, and Myrrha between stories. Even though she doesn’t show up until the second story of the book (it’s subdivided into several long-stories about 25k each) it feels like she is the MC overall – even though Kyreleis is really dictating most of the plot behind the scenes.

If you’re interested, I actually do have Myrrha’s story on Google Docs. @urwen-starial has been greatly helping me to clean it up and improve it wholeheartedly. It’s complete and makes logical sense more or less the whole way through; I just really really really don’t like the ending of the last page. It spoils the rest of the build-up in my opinion. (But that’s my fault!)

But if you want to read it I’d be happy to link it.

Anyways hopefully I’ll have Amara today! Now, did you say they were identical or non-identical twins?