the snowflake project

Achi’s character chart is complete and live on the site.

Get straight to it here, or find it via Achi’s character page.

I’m getting a really good sense of Achi’s personality and what drives him. His path towards villainy is becoming clearer in my head.

The last thing I wanted was to make him into a cliche, so hopefully I can avoid that by keeping him sympathetic. The chart I’m using really helps with that by asking about your character’s fears and vulnerabilities without any prejudice. Villains have pathos too!

I’ve completed my second Character Plot POV – this time for Achi, the antagonist. It’s a little shorter than the one I wrote for Kos, and subsequents will be even shorter (for Sky-Kicker, Aryenne and Torik).

You can find Achi’s over on his character page. I know these are a lot to read and they aren’t written very well, but they’re just lists of events and general thoughts/feelings the characters may have. Very rough stuff – so please forgive me.

I hope you’ll read them and suffer through the poor writing so that you can alert me to any horrible problems I might be setting up for myself when it comes to the plot.

I’ve added the description of the final major race in Kos’s world to the Races page. Technically, the Griind were not created by The One God, and shouldn’t qualify, but they are certainly important enough to the story to be included in my notes on races. I’ve been developing the Griind as an evil race for about 6 years. Their peculiarities are influenced by a lot of other fictional evil races – the Zerg in the Starcraft universe, the Borg from Star Trek, vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc. I think there’s nothing more terrifying than an enemy that doesn’t just kill you, but recreates you in its own image.

Those of you who are more observant may notice that I left out the physical description of the Griind breeders. That’s because I haven’t completely decided what they’ll look like. I only know they will be beastly and monstrous.

Anyway – let me know what you think!

I’ve finished the brief character sketch for Achi, who I have decided will be my antagonist for the first part of Kos’s story. I had intended for Achi to be a friend to Kos all the way through his life, but that’s not the way it goes sometimes.

I find it incredible how much characters can teach you about your story when you develop them on their own, before you really start getting into the details of your plot. It’s looking like Achi’s story will figure heavily in the narrative as well. Which means that I’ll be writing from at least two points of view. I’m happy with that – focusing on one character is much more difficult than jumping around a bit.

Achi’s character sketch can be found on the Characters page. Enjoy!