So, a while back I mentioned wanting to expand upon the universe with some short stories and Wasteland, (both of which I still intend to do), but I also have an idea for a fifth (or maybe fourth, depending on how one looks at Wasteland) book.
Well, it's not all my idea, credit goes partially to my dear husband too as we were just chatting about stuff and he asked me how the book was coming along and so we got chatting about that and I told him about the Navak'orn warrior that the sisters would eventually team up with (temporarily) and his extremely detailed background - which includes mercenary work (sellsword) - and then my husband eventually said, you should just do a story about a merc/assassin.
I was slightly taken aback at this suggestion because it's quite brilliant. What I'm dealing with at the moment is a princess/queen who is a complete war machine and thrust in to these fucked up situations (just waiting for Weapon: PRIME in FT3) and it would be totally selfless and the merc would be the opposite, everything he does, he does because:
A - He enjoys it.
B - He likes the money.
We then came up with the basic premise, which would be that this (as of now) unnamed merc, about 6'5 in build with a large, muscular frame, a retractable scythe, a few scars and shaggy, long, dark hair is hired to kidnap the daughter of a person of nobility - not decided how high up the social strata these people will be yet though - take her to the neighbouring land (which kind of makes me think she may be a princess or baroness or something?) and kill her.
So the assassin takes his payment and does his job and kidnaps the girl (who is about 19) and takes her to the neighbouring land but along the journey the two connect, he's not a total dick and she knows she's about to die and it turns out that the man who hired the assassin/merc was her father.
Sickened by this, and feeling a strong attraction to the girl, the assassin changes his mind and gives the girl his payment and tells her to run away and change her identity before heading back so that he can wage a one man war against her father.
We jump a few years and the merc is in another part of Ariy'aan, completing another job... He's never forgotten the girl and by chance - he bumps in to her, she runs a little inn/tavern/rest house in a remote village and he's shocked to learn that she's unmarried.
So they catch up, then he goes to finish his job and when he goes back after the job a few days later, it turns out that she has been kidnapped by her father who had been keeping tabs on the merc for years in the hopes he would lead him to his daughter so he can finish what he started and our merc is then on a race against the clock to rescue her.
Now, I now that seems like a lot of info and it does spoil a lot of the story BUT this story is a few years away and a lot will probably change in that time.
But yeah, that's my idea.
