Josiah DeGraaf

@aratrea Er…It’s an ice-cream giving frog. Not so bad, right? You’re the Wiser (Gandalf like character), Josiah Degrande, and its a long story. 😛
@jane-maree @daeus isn’t really an evil king. He just doesn’t want to see his kingdom destroyed by dragons or by the evil lord and his trolls.

@Aratrea quite honestly it’s more long-winded-ness than anything else. ;P I’m working on it.

@aratrea I have no idea how it started. xD I think it had something to do with @Dragon-snapper ‘s story in which there was a King Daeus (evil overlord of ice-cream) and a Josiah who had a frog? Maybe?

@jane-maree @kate-flournoy @daeus Well, I’m done for tonight. I finished the tale, the rough draft, at least. All that’s left is to edit it.
Nobody give @aratrea a frog! 😛 Actually, Daeus, the frog gave you ice cream in the story.

@daeus Grumpy in that the world is pitted against you. Josiah Degrande (the Wiser) @aratrea and his pet frog do a good job at annoying you.
@jane-maree Hahahaha! Something like that. 😛

1: Braeden. Idealistic spy for the bad guys. EiL: that humanity is a mess, but can be saved and is worth saving. Since the villains seem to be the only ones who acknowledge that humanity is a mess, duh, obviously he would work for them. Incidentally, he gets killed— by Eldred— about halfway through the book, to keep information safe, but also…[Read more]

@jess @ethryndal That is helpful: thanks!
@kate-flournoy Magnets. I like magnets. Thanks for the idea. (hehehehe)
@jane-maree The nice thing about not knowing what you’re doing is that you get to wing it. 😛 And I do have the world and plot set up, actually, I just have to know if there is any rhyme or rythm to sci-fi in itself. Thanks though!…[Read more]

@aratrea ah-ha, I see now. Thanks for clarifying. 🙂

@aratrea thank you again for the help. 🙂 I’ll definitely be playing around with different ideas, and I do have two characters that should be able to fill the Saruman/Gollum position with a bit of tweaking.

That is very helpful, @aratrea , thanks!

I’ve been mulling it over some, and then working on other projects, and then mulling it over some more. The hard part for me is choosing the main theme because there are several ways I could lean with my story. I’m getting close, though. 🙂 Trying to identify what all of the different themes are for my…[Read more]

@Aratrea Got it. He does tempt Ethaniel with the idea of giving him a name, but it is more trying to give what he thinks Ethaniel wants than trying to convince him to his own point of view.

@Aratrea Got it. He does tempt Ethaniel by with the idea of giving him a name, but it is more trying to give what he thinks Ethaniel wants than trying to convince him to his own point of view.

@Aratrea then… hm. So then it’s possible for a character to be more than one of the three types? Because she’s definitely a type one, and yet when you said that I realize she could also be a type two after a fashion. Does that work?

@aratrea oh thank you!! That will definitely be useful. 🙂

I thought that maybe I could get the villain out of his office and actually go to the ‘front lines’ so he can better command his agents (naturally under constant bodyguard supervision so there’s no way he could get killed). And then I can add a more personal attack from him, and a more…[Read more]

@aratrea That does make sense. I can see where the ending would look kind of contrived if I did that. I guess I am going to have to add a couple things to my story. Thank you!

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My main villain is a former friend of Ethaniel’s. They were messengers together and developed a strong bond because Ethaniel has no name and Keros (who ends up becoming the villain) was of mixed blood (Ethaniel actually helped and cared for Keros when Keros first joined the force. He’s the main reason Keros stayed). Keros’s EiL is that a…[Read more]

I’m going to go with Arianwen again. Her arc mirrors Harold’s, making it a type one. They both follow disillusionment arcs.
Arianwen’s, however, more represents the flip side of Harold’s, because while Harold was particularly disillusioned with the ‘good guys’ and almost considered joining the bad guys, Arianwen, because she was on the wrong side…[Read more]