*pokes at comm gently*

[scifisentai]

In an attempt at generating some discussion here, are there people or places you wish had more focus in the Velgarth books? I mean, I like the Heralds well enough but sometimes I get curious about the Bards and the Healers, for example, the kind of characters that really only get explored through the short story collections and are barely touched on in the novels themselves.

Or places like Hardorn after Tremane becomes King and Karse after Solaris becomes Son of the Sun, as a couple of other examples. Or the Shin'a'in clans aside from Tale'sedrin. So, thoughts? Anything you wish had more focus, no matter how unlikely the possibility of getting said focus is? Or do you think too much focus outside of Valdemar and the Heralds would detract from the series overall?

Comments

[perkyrusalka]

I would love to see more of the healers-I'm really curious about mindhealers, honestly, since they're mentioned occasionally. I always thought the Heralds were the least interesting of the characters, but I've always been biased against main characters. ;)

I'd like to read more of the Shin'a'in, too. I'd like to read more about the Hawkbrothers, back when they were mysterious and didn't interact with Valdemar all the time.

[scifisentai]

*nods* It would definitely be interesting to know more about the healers, especially the mindhealers, whether they'd be like the physical healers and use a mix of their Gift and psychology where regular healers use medicines and so on.

I actually don't mind the Heralds too much - they're not my favourites but I don't mind them - I just get frustrated a little at the focus they get and how everyone wants to be one. :/

Heh, agreed on that re: the Shin'a'in and the Hawkbrothers. There's a lot of history there to touch on, it would be fascinating. :)

[eliyes]

There doesn't seem to be a welcoming or comm questions post (that a non-member can see), so I will post this here.

On the community profile, you have:
2. No fan-fiction will be permitted by the express wishes of the author. You may be a very talented writer, but using parts of Misty's world is theft of her intellectual property.

But on Misty's website (which, hey, you have a link to) it says:
News: Concerning Fanfiction:

As you folks already know, my agent, Russel Galen, has in the past been opposed to fanfiction. However, he is also Cory Doctorow's agent now, and Cory is a persuasive little gnome.

As a result of this, I am happy to announce that we are officially permitting fanfiction to be licensed as derivative fiction under the Creative Commons umbrella.

What this means is: NO, you cannot make money on it. NO, you cannot self-publish a fanfiction novel of Valdemar (or any of my other stuff) and try and sell it on Amazon. And NO, I still am not going to read it, because I am already so far behind on my research reading I barely have time to read that.

But YES, you may write and post away, folks, so long as you license it as derivative and under Creative Commons. If it is anything other than PG-13, please take all the proper precautions to stick it somewhere that innocent souls won't be corrupted. Do not scare the children or the horses. Have fun!

So, are you going to update the comm rules to reflect the reality any time soon...?

[scifisentai]

Hm, maybe you should try PMing a mod with this? I don't think they'll see it on my post, this place seems pretty quiet.

[eliyes]

*facepalm* Thank you. I might have thought of that if I hadn't been so tired when I commented in the first place.

[scifisentai]

No problem, I do that myself all the time. ^.^