May
18th
2022
Birthday Q&A · 10:03pm May 18th, 2022
Well, it's past midnight over here, meaning it's my birthday and I'm officially 30. Yipee...
So anyways, as I said, this is a Q&A, you can ask me anything and I will do my best to answer truthfully^^ You can even ask about some future events in my stories, I will disregard my rules about spoilers to some extent even (mostly because I have so much planned that before I get to those moments you'll all forget about this xD)
What's your opinion of Juniperclaw after the latest series finale.
How old is Angel anyway? Think I missed that bit.
Is there someone who was a better warrior than Hurricane? It seems he is way stronger/faster than the average pony, to the point of killing a giant dragon in the past, so curious to see if he had a rival who could match our outfight him or how he became so powerful.
Also, will we see more of Daring Do being a flirt or hooking up with other ponies?
Haven’t read the story in a while, so need to catch up.
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Hm, I think he's a good cat that made a lot of big mistakes. And honestly I'm surprised there aren't more cats like him in Dark Forest.
From what I saw a lot of people compare him to Needletail, arguing that if she was accepted by StarClan, so should he. However, those people seem to disregard a couple of things.
First of all, Juniperclaw had ALSO joined Darktail, just like Needletail, so he has that against him too on top of trying to poison SkyClan.
Secondly, Needletail was young when she died, barely older than an apprentice. I believe StarClan is more lenient with younger cats when they f*ck up, as they had shorter time to make things right.
Next, Needletail KNEW when she decided to help Violetpaw escape that she would pay that with her life. Junipawclaw, while also valiantly saved Violetshine at the cost of his life (oh wow, no wonder people compare the two, they even died saving the same cat), he wouldn't have known until almost the very end that he would died. Also, I got the feeling that he was mostly concerned with repenting, even his last words were to tell TIgerstar he was sorry. Needletail cared solely about Violetpaw, and I think this mattered to StarClan.
Lastly; Needletail didn't make it to StarClan right after her death. She remained as ghost in the world of the living and thanks to her Tree came to the Clans, thanks to which many cats who had died were finally able to move on and join StarClan. I think that mattered to StarClan too before they judged her.
(Also as Alderheart had done so much to help with SkyClan I feel like StarClan might have decided they owed him to allow Needletail to StarClan, but that's probably too farfetched.)
Of course, there is also the matter of him still being a Dark Forest resident, even after he had helped stop Ashfur. The thing about that... I don't think it's in the power of StarClan to change cat's residence after they had been either accepted or rejected by them. Ashfur still had stars in his pelt after he prowled through both the world of the living and the Dark Forest. Juniperclaw's fur remained as it was when he walked through StarClan hunting grounds, but those who had died recently and were enslaved by Ashfur immediately gained stars in their pelt, despite having been first in the Dark Forest. So clearly it seems that this is something that's beyond StarClan's power to change, that they are somehow bound to each plane of existence after they were judged. Of course, they could have allowed Juniperclaw to stay despite still being a Dark Forest cat, but there's no telling what could that cause. I'd wager nothing good.
Also since Erins went out of their way to give Juniperclaw such an important role as guardian of this new entryway between StarClan and Dark Forest, I strongly believe he will appear in the story again. I mean, the last time Erins had done something similarly - revealed that Ashfur was in StarClan - it paid off in BIG way. Of course I doubt they had planned so far ahead, rather Ashfur's fate was in response to all those fans that fell in love with that psychopathic would-be murderer, but I digress.
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I think I stated at least once that she's 22, and that she looks a bit younger than that; though to be honest I wish I had accented that more strongly
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- a lot of time had passed, I don't remember now how long, 10 years or so? So he grew stronger too. His strength is a combination of years spent in constant combat plus pegasi magic empowering him.
Well the first king of Griffonia, Friedrich, was his equal in terms of combat, though ultimately Hurricane won, partially because his new blade Windtear gave him an edge. His echo's win over Friedrich's echo in the story was solely because they had fought each other for over 800 years with only Hurricane being aware of that, if this went according to history they'd fought a lot longer and Friedrich would fled, so Hurricane would have won narrowly. By the time he had killed that dragon - assuming he had, of course
Also Arthas could fight on about equal footing with him thanks to the Light empowering him, assuming he's also have a stronger weapon. Windtear is either Legendary or Artifact, and what Arthas had in their fight was just a Rare. You do the math xD (His armor though was probably Epic quality, so that's about even). Also Clover the Clever thanks to her magic is about as deadly in combat as Hurricane, but I'm not sure if you didn't want to know about physical fighters solely.
Well Daring Do will certainly reappear, I plan her to be head of basically Equestria's version of Explorer's League (actually she already kinda is, but hadn't had the time to bring it up). Also Griffonia has their own version but of Reliquary, will be brought up eventually... and it's headed by Caballeron xD Yeah he's a pony but can work for Griffonia, like that goblin that works for SI:7.
As for her hooking up, well, had this funny idea though not quite sure if I'll go with it: "You'll find me whenever the action is!" 😈
How much of the new lore from the past couple of expansions has changed The lore for The Damned? As in couple reveals in Legion or shadowlands made you think " Oh wow, that would work better than my idea" or " that's stupid. So much so that all right stuff specifically to say that's not the law of my story" or some events inspired you to take on a new approach? Like how you originally wrote how are this was able to communicate with the other two Lich Kings back before Fordragon woke up and start doing things years later.
Also you wrote a scene where arthas explains his time in hell as falling in darkness, and then years later it reveals there was a point just after his death. Where he couldn't see anything and Uther dropped him into the maw.
I know you said somewhere at the end of one of the previous chapters that the story will not be encompassing the events of shadowlands and battle for Azeroth, but did any of the lore revealed there have an impact or change on your plans for the story?
Also, happy birthday!
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The bit about ALL demons being reborn in the Twisting Nether and the Twisting Nether transcending all realities. Originally I thought it to be dumb, you can even find my blog post about it if you look hard enough, but eventually, I came around to it. How it affected my story? Well, I planned more than a few demons to come back on Equestria in a similar manner to Arthas, most notably Archimonde of course, as an alicorn. Oh, can you imagine, Archimonde as an alicorn? But nah, that's scrapped. Archimonde will be just reborn in the Nether.
Actually, the new piece of lore that came with expansion that actually affected my plans for Rebirth came from... Warlords of Draenor, actually
Legion actually didn't really bring all that much for my story, neither did BfA.
Now Shadowlands is obviously another matter, namely what happened to Arthas soul. Obviously we have more details that just his last words and Edge of Night now, and it should probably be addressed. Fortuantely, there was something related to how I presented Arthas in my story that had been bugging me for quite a while, and the new info we have on what happened to him after his death actually gives me an excuse to to do something about it. Sorry but not gonna spoil this one as that will actually come to play very soon (of course given my writing pace as of late that's not saying much but still, hopefully this year at the very least).
Also Sylvanas bullshit about her soul being split is going right down the crapper, she has full soul in Rebirth as she had in Warcraft until 2021. I am still debating whether or not I should kill her off as soon as I have the chance just to avoid all that bullshit and nip Shadowlands storyline in the bud.
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Aw, thanks^^
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Ah, wait, forgot ONE thing about the Legion that affected my story.
Illidan.
Now, while I am still gonna go with my stuff, his motives explained in the expansion and the novel affected how he will be portrayed. Yes, Illidan will appear in Rebirth, and honestly that one was so obvious to happen at some point that I'm not sure if it can be counted as a spoiler. Anyway, originally I was gonna go with what little we knew from The Burning Crusade, that he was insane and interested in his own power. Now we know that wasn't truth, he had a goal he strode towards, and that had affected how he'll be portrayed in the story when he finally appears.
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Any chance she and Dash will have another encounter?
Happy belated birthday!
I can ask you anything and you'll do you best to answer truthfully huh?
Alright. The only question i can think of that matters; Are you feeling better about life in general these days?
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They will definitely meet again, though not sure about them having an "encounter", I kinda regret all the sex stuff I put into Rebirth and I'm gonna try to tone it down
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Aw, belated thanks^^
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In general? Yeah, definetly. Still bummed about little things, but honestly what I'm upset the most right now is the fact that I seem unable to return to writing at the moment
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I’m a bit sad there won’t be another encounter since I REALLY loved their chemistry at Night of Dares and the aftermath, so was hoping for another encounter, but I understand if you want to tone it down. Hope we see more of Rebirth soon, then.
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Glad to hear you're doing better. I might not actively read much these days but i like to lurk and check on some of your guys once in a while.
The first time I had contact with The Damned is in 2020.To tell the truth,this novel of yours gave me quite the motivation,surprise,and so much else.Probably the best Warcraft crossover in FF.And your skill,too.actually because I can't register previously so...
So I'm curious about that, since Druid,Mage,Paladian,Priest had all appeared in Equestria(wether newborn or not),is there any possiblities that other classes would appear,too?And would Kel'Thuzad come to Equestria,since he played an important role beside Arthas from Region of Chaos,and Sindargosa had come,too.And the approximate time of the next chapter's update
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Happy to hear you enjoy my story^^
Yeah, the other classes will more or less all be represented in this story, Shaman and Hunter had also already appeared however briefly. Personally I am most excited for when I can introduce a Warlock into this, as logically all their demons can talk, which offers many hilarious scenes; especially considering who will be that Warlock xD As for Kel'Thuzad, at this point I think it's pretty obvious he will appear in the story. However, I'll be disregarding all that Shadowland stuff about him serving the Jailor all along, because it - along with many other things in that expansion - had pissed me off.
As for the next chapter...
I'm sorry it's taking so long. Originally I focused on another story (chapters for that one take a LONG time to get them done) and then when I was about to return to Rebirth I got sucked back into a book series (Warriors by Erin Hunter; you might have noticed me raving about them in blog posts as of late 
) that I had stopped reading over 4 years ago, and aside for having to read like 20 new books that came out since then I also got super into that franchise again... resulting in me wanting to write a fanfiction to it, and my brain had been stuck for months now planning that fanfiction, making it difficult to concentrate on writing anything else. I'm hoping to motivate myself to work on Rebirth during the next couple of days, but I make no promises.
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That's a relief.I got nearly the same situation in doing translation,too.Good to know you didn't tire yourself out,and don't force it.As long as you are working on the Rebirth it's fine.