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

Omg

[(Anonymous)]

I cried. Ivaloriel of Telthorelandor died? I was hoping that he'd make it to the Flower Forest. It's just so sad to see that the Elves have lost so much!

Otherwise, the draft might still be slightly unpolished, but I really love your style of writing enough that it still seemed natural to me.

Please keep posting! I'm so glad to see you're back! It fills me with JOY

Re: Omg

[merlinscribe]

Thank you!

I, too, am sad at Ivaloriel's passing. He was such a fascinating character!

Re: Omg

[(Anonymous)]

Could you give us more on Ivaloriel? I'd really love to know more about Ivaloriel since he seems to be one of the more reasonable and enlightened War Princes.

What happened to Haldil and Thadan and their affiliated houses? Could you give us an idea? The erasing of the Houses of the Windsward and the Arzhana came as a shock, to be honest.

Re: Omg

[merlinscribe]

I would very much like to flesh out the stuff I've only gotten to mention over the course of the trilogy. I would like to do at least a novella about Serenthon's bid for the High Kingship, and of course Ivaloriel would be in that. I like him a lot, and I would like to write about a plain, normal, low-drama Soulbond. (Yes, there really are such things.)

What happened to the Less Houses of the Arzhana (another place I've been unable to write about as much as I wish) is actually covered in WINGS. I'll pull out the section and post it.

As for the Grand Windsward Less Houses, I'm afraid the Endarkened slaughtered all of them (except any who came west with Thurion, such as the Silver Swords). The Grand Windsward Houses should have paid attention when all the Otherfolk vanished. They didn't, alas.

Re: Omg

[(Anonymous)]

I would LOVE to see anything and everything that you can and are willing to give on the history of the Elven Houses!

Lore and worldbuilding is totally my jam, and I'm so sorry that Tor has cut down on the books so much you can't go into them with as much detail as you did for Obsidian.

Re: Omg

[merlinscribe]

I do too! I will see what pieces of just plain lore I can dig out and post, how's that?

I really wish Tor had been committed to the current trilogy and the one before it--these are the kind of books that need serious length to cover all the worldbuilding, and if I go and gut them because Tor wants a shorter book, there isn't much left--kind of like a book report instead of a book.

Re: Omg

[(Anonymous)]

That would be great!!! It doesn't have to be written in the same style as your books, I'd love to see whatever you have!