Authors Notes for RTTF Arc 3 & 4.

In Arc 3 all the training and challenges culminated in her finishing with her personal testing. While at the same time took the concept of demi-plane creation that has slowly been built to it's final level. A fully functional plan that will teach her new things, grow her understanding of things, and add a new level of unique situations that can pop up at any point in time.

As she ends her training she get's a steady form of income and entrepreneurial endeavors that will give her not only an IC form of wealth, but can later lead to contacts, environs to interact with, and possible long term story props to fall back on. What lead to all of this was my need to not only transition Soul Shard from Origins to what happens after her Cutie Mark is gained. But to build a solid foundation of her as a character. While I do have a barebones outline for the story. For the most part the story is organically created, and Arcs 1 - 3 were the resources needed to build her wealth, skill, and personality. Making her a believable, 3 dimensional character. While at the same time shaping the path that she would go down in this story while still making enough material that any author who wanted to make a Soul Shard tale would have enough to not only build off of, but diverge from a solid place.

The Aracataur's were actually formed from a hybrid of Driders from D&D, But rather than being half Dunmer were 1/3 spider, 1/3 black nailed humanoid [bone thin], with the face like the Angel in Hellboy 2 Golden Army:

But with a more Dokumon [Digimon] / helmet like top rather than the satellite dish forehead. I also gave them a Dunmer Matriarchy. Where the clan is broken into houses with the more powerful houses acting as chieftains to the lower families. Housewars and assassinations are OK as long as they are done in the shadows. The entire race is inbetween Lawful Evil and Chaotic Neutral, as well as being apex predators. That and I like the thought of a poison capable of harming Transformation Cloud combat forms. Since those forms really are cheap, albeit useful tools to have when / if needed in the future.

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Arc 4:

Oh boy! In truth the entire story was building up to this point, and was something I was looking forward to doing. Las Pegasus will be explored later someday, but for now it accomplished it's goal. To unwind Soul Shard an ungodly, extreme training regimen, and build good PR for SI. Ever since I started, and originally planned on not having any real wealth. Using Las Pegasus as a launching pad for the story, I've been wanting to go there. But when Shar hit the proverbial jackpot that plan changed slightly.

Lightning Flicker he's deathpony45's OC, and his intro actually went through several revisions before now. But all in all I'm happy with how it turned out. All thanks to tencentpartycanon. My Editor, he really deserves a nice round of applause for the work he does. He did a fine job polishing my dialog heavy segments into something more polished and smooth. And Lightning Flicker is slowly being shaped up into a nice character.

I have permission to use LF from DP, and he's been a huge help along with my editor in doing his dialog, actions, and reactions. I actually have 4 good reasons for adding in LF into the story, hopefully those reasons will become more apparent by Arc 6 - 7. With Arc 5 being a Flashback chapter following Princesses Celestia, Vinyl Scratch, and the Plane of Arx Novo. At least as far as the first draft is concerned. We'll see if it makes it past the editor's judgement. But yeah Arc 5 was a fun Arc to do and finally finish.

That's all for now. I hope y'all enjoyed these last two arcs. Things are going to start flowing faster and more smoothly now, and are about to take an interesting turn. If any of y'all read the Veiwer's Choice Blog that I made not to long ago than you too can help pick a path. Otherwise it'll be an adventure for all of us to see how Soul Shard grows as an individual.

Have a good evening, it's midnight here and way past the time I'd normally be hitting the hay.

Comments

[Deathpony45]

Dude you did awesome with LF (really like the whole smart ass angle an I think that stays true to my original thoughts on the character) everything you did with him was perfect (well except I don't think his vocabulary would be extensive enough to use the word affinity like ever it's not something I see him saying...well at all actually but other than that perfect) youre doing a great job with this story and I'm loving every second of it