Fwd: 2017 - some notes

I have the problems of:
a. where did the Monks in the Temple come from?
b. where could the Monks in the Valley go after they were left behind

Solution: The Mages in the Grandfather's House had created a large number of monks for the Temple and Monks for a distant town's Temple. They could have created 60 future mated couples for the Temple and had them be raised by old line Monks. Make the rules confusing so future Monks will have only a foggy grasp of them. This would salvage the love stgory of the main Monk and his wife. Strengthn the part where the then head Monk tells them that celebacy did not mean they could not find future mates and go courting.

Take genetic samples from all 60 males and all 60 females. Begin doing more advanced
work on these genetic samples. Have a number of fetuses die. Use surogate Mothers.
Have Dent and wife be the first to survive. Then, over a span of 3 to 10 years later
(check this date with first novel) have the remaining 29 males and 29 females
be created. That is, have an artifual age range.

Create a set of 30 future mated pairs and have them and families escape to a
new Monestary in a city well to the south of the Central City.

Talk of this city being on the northeast corner of an inland sea with a huge
river (i.e. Nile) emptying into the sea.


Have 30 future mated pairs of Monks go to the People of the Valley. Work up a nice version of this story in the 2017 novel.

Modify the 2015 story portion where the Paladin is ensnarved by the wiles of the peoplein the Valley. Make some Temple bells or chimes be barely audible, just enoiugh to confuse the Paladin and his platoon (or was it a section?)

I've got the prelude, pos-lude and much of sectin one. Section two, I have hits at. Sectin 3 and the secdond section ocf "old times" I have no clues about...

The first "old time" section will be them building their new civilization amd initiating Dents' hunt for the killers, starting intelligence collection, starting magazines. It wold end with them realizing they can not ever expect to find the answers.

Unanswered questions: who got lethal from the People of the Valley?
Why did the People of the Valley release it?
Who set up the distribution network?

Either the people of the new hidden city and their allies are evil or there is some "good" to be3 filled by releasing lethal.

On boat trip to return to the new hidden city, their Nanny teaches the girl, entertains the boy and uses her spells to help stablize the SILENT LUCIDITY.

 

 

 

upcoming 2017 novel outline #1

 Prolog:

This novel is partially about an ancient tragedy in which members of a religious Monastery was forced to flee for their lives. A voice talking to them reveals they must flee well to the west of their city.

The other story is set in the present and invo9ves members of the same Temple, along with the ruling clan of their cities’ government, attempting to determine why these ancient Monks fled.

In addition, the modern people are trying to determine why at least two very strong drugs have started entering their cities.

Their land is bordered to the north by a vast sea with extends from the endless ocean to the west. The sea was thin and very long, extending from a narrow pass between the endless ocean and their sea. The Central City was near the location where the land turned north. The northward turning was marked by a large city – called Sanding City -  whose economy was based on an elegant wood, fishing and a limited amount of crops. The Central City was located at the mouth of a vast river which extended deep through the desert into vast mountains. There were cities alongside the river which few knew on. One of these cities bore the  name of southern Branch.

To the west, were five cities which depended upon the and a network of rivers which served the cities. Actually, these rivers supplied water for crops and nearly all  of the citizen’s water needs. This water need made them dependent upon the Central City was shipments of beer, wine, some distilled liquors and large shipment of potable water sent by state owned and maintained roads to the five cities. 

It was known the Monks of the Temple were a warrior Monastery and were known for their Martial Art abilities, their good services to the people of the vast city they lived  and their apparent tendency to remain closured.  Only the highest ranks of both the city and federal (Empire) government knew there were at least two other monasteries across the continent north of the central desert. One Monastery was in the ironically names “Southern Branch” and none of them knew of the small Monastery south of the Fifth City.

The peoples of this land was a mixed  lot of Humans, Orcs, Half Orcs, Elves, Half Elves, Hobbits. There were stories of other species living in the waste lands and haunting ancient abandoned cites. They were figures of horror to the people south of the great sea as well as north of the Standing Cities.

Still, the Emperor maintained embassies in the capitols of very civilized states. Fishers had amiable relations with the fisher folk north of the great sea.

The Coast Guard and Armies of the Northern Empire and their counterparts in the civilized nations north of the great had fought bitter battles against monsters in the north and monsters who presumed to invade the south lands.

Still, the thread was still minor and the rulers of the south hid tis information. Since there were more nation states north of great sea, there were more governments. Sadly, the Emperor of the Central Nation – located in the Central City – did not appreciate how the cities west of him were forming their own polities and he did not know about a number of small cities who were able to become independent simply by forming little cities in areas the Army did not patrol or which the Army was bribed or scared away from.

Describe the land

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