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Tenebroum: A Question of Directions
🕑 Added 2022-12-02 15:50:24 +0000 UTCLast night someone asked on Scribblehub, "When will the lich get his own name? (Tenebroum)." I thought this was a very good question to ask. The answer is more complicated though.
The darkness in the swamp is still distilling into its final form. It is flawed, fragmented, and not yet a complete entity, hence why I sometimes refer to it as the wraith, and other times as the darkness or the swamp. It is a cesspool of minds, though only the most important half dozen really matter. Originally, I'd planned on giving it at name at the culmination of the second arc, but sometimes now, for reasons that will become clear in the next few chapters I consider making it a system of minds... sort of the divine version of MPD. Wouldn't that make for a fun entity. One so crazed that it wasn't even the same person from day to day.
Anyway: I haven't decided, but welcome feedback on the subject. The options boil down to three choices:
- At the end of Arc 2 (Ch. 40-50ish)
- Sooner than that
- It never evolves strictly into a single persona, but a series of them that become more distinct as time goes on.
I don't see that name being Tenebroum in any case. That is a word that means cut off from the light and describes the place where all this has happened as much as the people that are affected by the darkness' touch.
Comments
Kermit The Frog
Gotta keep this swamp frustration free, I'm always on the lookout with my banjo/shotgun
D. Winchester
That is excellent feedback actually. I hadn't actually considered how frustrating that might be. Thank you so much for the well thought out argument. It's fitting that one of the most influential voices on the swamp should be Kermit.
Kermit The Frog
Personally, as a reader I would be extremely put off by following a main character who is unpredictable and switches personality on a dime. I think that's hile it works for a side character, the reason I follow a main character is to understand what drives them and try to anticipate what they will do. I can't do that if the character has 8 different voices randomly taking over. Plus it would seem counterintuitive to a character who is trying to remain hidden while manipulating things from the shadows to go to being some random crazed bastard who goes all out and ruins the plans of the shadowy one. Those are my thoughts on that concept, I just don't see it as a good idea for the main character.
