Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Unfortunately, there was a necromancer who killed many of royal blood in the first story of the story cycle.

Fortunately, they have a bowl where they can discern who the next heir is. Furthermore, I know who he's going to be. (Poor him. It lists his heirs presumptive, too, and they are even less happy.)

Unfortunately, for me, the story cycle keeps on telling me another story that happens before that one. sigh

Was trucking along on a story. Carefully setting up the laws and customs of the kingdoms to move the characters around.

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A royal character who does not become a wizard -- and the amount of study means that course is discouraged -- becomes a magical knight.

Does he, or even a noble character, get more say than others in the power set he will get?

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So there are two scenes.

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Was moving around pieces of a story like a toddler moving around building blocks, and thinking of this character as the potential villainess, living in the woods and working magic, except that she did not really seem like the villainess in doing certain acts. . . .

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After a time, the evil necromancers face an invasion by an army. Our hero gets to escape during it.

So there has to be some time -- absolute necessity for plot reasons and to motivate our hero -- and I ponder why the delay. The hero doesn't know at first, but other point of view characters do, and the hero will learn it in time.

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I have a heroine of ambiguous social status.

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Ah, the effects of mages in power.

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How old does the prince get before people pester him about getting married?

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