Chapter One: Wings Of Fate (The Dragon Prophecy, Book 3)

[merlinscribe]

Follow the link below to see the first chapter of the next Dragon Prophecy book. As always, the spoiler-averse should be aware--it may spoil both previous books and the current one.

The chapter is first draft, unedited, and still pretty rough. merlinscribe_library is a read only journal: comments should go here.

I hope you enjoy it. I will be posting more in the coming weeks.

https://merlinscribe-library.dreamwidth.org/590.html

Comments

[merlinscribe]

Thank you! I imagine Rune will be much more alarmed by the Endarkened than the Otherfolk are, since they probably already have a good idea of what they are and what they look like.

What *I* want to know is what Vielle will think the first time she sees Runacar... ;)

[sanders1800]

I think it was mentioned a few times in Blade that when Melisha tries to get Leutric to give up the ‘Bones of the Earth’, Leurtic does not seem to see the Darkness as a great threat. The Other Races know what the Endarkened are intellectually, but if they come in force to fight them? The Endarkened may just stand on the side lines and let the light destroy itself. Either way they win, at least this battle.

If the Darkness is attacking Vieliessar mostly at night, but then Rune and the Other Races came an attack at other times. Then it could seem like the Other Races are in alliance with the Darkness. The Elves could be nicer then me and not think that, though.

Just wandering, but Vieliessar is well known in the later series, but is Rune as well known? I tend to ask questions that have no meaning and you can even make up an answer. The smallest thing makes me wander, and I really think you for having a place we can ask questions.

[merlinscribe]

Hello again! Leutric's objection to giving the Elves The Bones Of The Earth is that the Elves will use them to wipe out the Otherfolk--probably before they try to take on the Endarkened. His coalition of the Otherfolk is a very fragile thing, and since everybody has a different view of the peril represented by the Endarkened, it's hard to get all of them on the same page. Also--and I don't think this is very clear in the previous book--the Endarkened have never stopped raiding the Otherfolk. It's only the Elves who got to take a major break, mainly because the Endarkened were justly-fearful of the effect that Elven Magery would have.

The Endarkened would be smart to pit the Otherfolk against the Elves, but they just haven't thought of it. It's a piece of canon I haven't quite figured out how to showcase in the books: the Endarkened are really really stupid. But since they're also immortal (unless somebody kills them entirely dead), eventually they have enough "experience points" to make them cunning and clever. This is probably the only reason there is any life and Light left in the Brightworld at this point.

I don't know yet whether Rune will pass into legend the way Vieliessar has--or even will be remembered. Much of the time as I am writing, I am as surprised by new developments as you are when you read.