“You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Thucydides…

The number of characters in a relatively long novel tend to proliferate. Especially when you have multiple narrators and action in two or more settings. The challenge is to differentiate the characters.

This really should be titled Building a Fantasy World, but using World would bring that ’…… Building’ phrase to mind. If I identify with any of my characters, it’s the grumpy old general Marius. I set…