The Genealogy of The Redemption of Erâth

So, instead of writing recently I’ve been playing around with MacFamilyTree, which is a pretty neat genealogy application (I’m sure there are equivalents for Windows). Not only does it let you add in mothers, fathers, partners, brothers and sisters, but it then tells you the relationship between all these people, gives you plausibility warnings (e.g. if someone was married two years after they were born), and gives you the person’s age at time of death.

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Back to the Drawing Board … or the Notepad

Now that NaNoWriMo is over (not that I succeeded even remotely in that endeavor), it’s time for me to focus on wrapping up book three of The Redemption of Erâth. I’ve got twenty-two chapters completed, which means I’ve only got three chapters left to write. The last couple of chapters have gone surprisingly well, and I’m looking forward to the culminating events of the last few.

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The Redemption of Erâth: Book Three, Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Two: A Lord’s Fall

Elỳn ushered Brandyé and the Hochtraë into the inner courtyard, much to the guards’s displeasure, and the door was locked behind them. She led them to a dining hall under the great towers, and hot meat and fresh bread were brought to them swiftly. The Hochtraë dug in with gusto, but Brandyé was too stunned to consider eating. What Elỳn had said—could it possibly be true?

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