Series Overview

     While I continue to write the main novels for the series I plan to, over time, write several stories, all set within the world of the Emrosian Empire, solely(for now) for use in this blog. Stories taking place in different eras, different regions, and following different types of people. Some showing more of the magic within the world, while others may center on more mundane happening.

    

    While the short stories I post up here will vary and take place at any point in the timeline of the series, the main series will generally follow one basic narrative. With that being said, I thought I'd give an explanation of a bit of the timeline/basic plot of the first two books of the main series.

    Book I follows a pretty straight forward narrative. And, while there are many named characters both POV, secondary, and tertiary, it follows three major "group POVs". Within each group the story is told through the eyes of several people. Each of those group POVs also follow a separate storyline. Each of which I will give a minor explanation of.

    The first group marks the main story of the novel. This is where most of the chapters are spent and these are the characters you will get to know the most. This story is self-contained with a beginning, middle, and end in Book I. A second group follows a different story, that falls a bit more into the background. This story will play out over several books, and ties into the main story at various points and in several ways, mostly acting as a constant, underlying factor that ripples throughout the rest of the world, causing both subtle and blatant effects. Lastly, we have the group that will transcend the entire series. While only a small amount of time is spent on these POVs, and I wouldn't say much gets resolved in Book I, these plot threads will continue throughout the entire series.

    In Book II, rather than one full novel, I'm writing it as more of an anthology. Rather than one long story there will be several short stories/novelettes. Each shorter tale will more closely follow a single story picking up pretty closely around the timeline where the first book ends.

    Of those stories, one picks up focusing on a few characters that may have seemed forgotten in the first book. And it follows their tale, catching up with the main timeline. Other stories follow directly after the first story. And several center around characters in different parts of the world. All to prepare for the third novel that will likely sew all or at least most of these divergent threads back into a single, cohesive narrative.

    As for posts on here, on Monday I will post the first half of the prologue to Stone & Shield: Tales From the Emrosian Empire Book I

Thanks for you time and be well,

-Thomas