One of the challenging things about writing The Agartes Epilogues is that it is not written from the point of view of “heroes” in the traditional sense. The point of view characters are regular people with selfish desires, who just get caught up in the plot either because of their actions or through reasons beyond their control. If certain parameters are in place, they will run from the plot, and run fast.
By heroes, I mean people who are fighting for the greater good–people who are willing to sacrifice themselves and their lives for a cause bigger than themselves. People who have nothing to gain from doing something, yet do it anyway, because it is the right thing that needed to be done.
These people do exist in the series–just not as actual point of views.
They’re sort of all over the place in the first and second books, mostly because it’s very difficult to show how things come together in an epic fantasy storyline in the beginning. Sapphire’s Flight is really where these heroes become obvious. Without them, the plot would not have a conclusion. Without their sacrifices, this story would not be able to move forward or end.
People like these exist in real life, too, and I think it’s worthwhile to be able to show them both as vulnerable human beings but also draw attention to the things they could have done yet chose to do instead. Showing them from the point of view of other characters, especially characters who happen to care for them, is a bit of a refreshing exercise. It’s made it easier–as the series draws to a close–to highlight exactly what makes them so “heroic”, which I think could be hard if you’re looking at someone really closely the way my writing does.
Get started in a not really traditional epic fantasy adventure in The Agartes Epilogues.
