Tag: rootstock

I found and snapped this tonight from one of the many work-in-progress notebooks I used while writing Rootstock Saga. After 8+ years of shifting Patterns, fickle mindgifts, multiple continents, even more cultures, and let’s not count the named characters… it all converges. SPOILER ALERT Or not. This isn’t really...

Let’s pause and reflect for a moment, shall we? The past few chapters revealed several big secrets, some of which I’m sure you guessed and a few I hope were still surprises. First, the runaway prince. Nigel Willoughby was born Prince Nihyllen o’Berwyn, eldest son of King Berwyn of...

Gaven travels from Dundarien to Twelvestones through a mysterious portal Jenna calls a swift gate. The portal opens in the cave beneath Gaven’s observatory ledge on the sheer cliffs of Mount Yonah. Wait. Calum and Rachel thoroughly explored this cave earlier. They found no portal. They found only a...

In the past several chapters, we witnessed the first Awakenings. Mindspeaking Ashlon speaks telepathically to Isobel, urging her to jump from the ledge. The mindgift he sought to awaken with his vow of silence bursts free in the crucible of danger. Ashlon is the first mindspeaker chronicled in the...

Amadeo Constans is arguably the most powerful individual in the Legend of the Storm Hawks world. As high priest of the Orthodoxy, his holy empire spans many borders. The Faithful in Larad, Bresca, and the Ten Kingdoms of Erusa all seek his guidance. Amadeo is a complex character. Self-controlled,...

Now would be a good time for a family tree, just to remind ourselves who’s on which branch of the royal lineage of Innis. First came the Falkenders. Joren the Conqueror, the Lion of Innis, established his rule after he invaded the Isle of Rhynn. His son Jared succeeded...

The Firstborn society is definitely a unique one. Neither a patriarchy nor a matriarchy, its family structure is one I conjured out of nowhere. Well, not exactly nowhere. It came from considerable late night, early morning, floor pacing, drive-time-commute pondering of another evolutionary “what if…” What if a once-dominant...

As you might have noticed by now, the inspiration for the Rhynn Watch, later known as the Red Watch, comes from British history. In the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Independent Companies of militia were raised from loyalist Highland clans for policing and peacekeeping duties. These companies...

Earlier, Bess retold her story of the Children of Promise, the children born of the Joining of nenes and women. Her story echoes the elements of evolutionary theory. Species diverge to the point they can no longer produce viable offspring. To quote Bess, ” A horse and a donkey...

Where is Nigel? Where is this delightfully dangerous Pit? Good questions. The answer would be a spoiler. You’ll recognize this setting when it appears much later in Legend of the Storm Hawks. More importantly, what’s all this talk about awakening Edmund’s potential? The fundamental theme of Rootstock Saga is...