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Originally posted by Celchu:
Well, again, nice chronicle! Though I am a bit disappointed that you didn't follow up on Rothlin's internal struggle. Maybe in the next one.
Ahh, well, I came very close to overrunning my limits in the project I was doing it for... you see, in my final year of High School in my state, we were offered a new course this year in which we were able to take on a Major Work, in any medium we wished and involving any topic. We were just given limits, like word & time, and then we were turned loose. Since I was doing another major project involving Caesar in Gaul in history, I decided to overlap, doing a historical project and a fictional project (can you guess which is which?). Anyway, the word limit for a short story was 6000-8000 words, but there was also an option of doing a multimedia project, containing 40 screens of "substantial text". I decided to go multimedia for the extended word limit, because lots of words fit on one screen, especially in size 12 Times New Roman, and so I ended up with a 36 screen, 17,829 word story. Or something close 
Also, as part of my project, I included several historical sections to my work, involving a bit of background information of Celtic religion, Roman tactics etc, ending up with exactly 40 screens. Thus, whilst I would have liked to do some parts in more detail and follow up on others, like Rothlin's past, his feelings, his relationship with Talia ( spoiler! ) I just didn't have the room. Even an 18000 word story doesn't give much room to develop character, when you've got a few major battles and a conquest to engineer. So, unfortunately, Rothlin remains a rather shallow person. But that's ok, I'm not going to change that story anymore. It's sort of a landmark for me, and will remain intact and the same. However, in the sequel ( ;)) I plan to write, you might find out a bit more about the characters involved..... after the end, of course....
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Well, okay... I doth proclaim whichever month these are posted in to be ASW board-wide Andiyar-Fest! Everyone, pickup Andiyar related merchandise at your nearest Andiyar Enterprises! Stuffed Zeltars! (Ahh, aren't they cute?) Rothlin action figures! (It slices! It dices! It even makes haggis!) Inflatable Talia dolls! (No comment) Custom coffee mugs with a little 'ć' on the front! Fall of Nervii - The Comic Book! /me faints from exertion.**
T-shirts! Get your T-shirts! only 15.95 plus postage & handling. All kings of goods, wares, get your special Nervii Corporate Car! Mouse pads signed by Julius Caesar himself! A special copy of the story, with personalised greetings from the author, the characters, and the author's trusty dog who fetched him a rabbit to eat during a twelve hour writing frenzy...... need I go on?
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But seriously, 4 at a time seems a tad... excessive. Well, at least they will be good! Though I hold off on the e-mail so that there will be something to do for a straight month of Andiyar-related goodness...
Andiyar, I seem to remember you saying that this was a major work for English. How did it do under the prof's eye?
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Overall, if memory serves (I can't be bothered checking ;)) the story has been submitted in 9 parts altogether. It is actually divided into six parts, counting the Prologue (Stormclouds, The Gathering, The Horizon Darkens, The Tempest Begins, Thunderbolts, Aftermath) but TTB and T'Bolts were too long to include intact (they make up about 12000 words of the total together.) So, those four parts are really just the last two... confused?
Oh, and I haven't got my mark back yet... the project is marked externally, the process is marked internally. For the process I got 46/50 overall (92%), and my teacher, who was a marker for other schools said he would have given me between 48 and 50 for the product so.... I really won't know until a week before Christmas. I'll tell you then, maybe it'll all be online by then....
And feel free to email. It's always nice to get letters... 
-Andiyar
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"Any good that I may do here, let me do now, for I may not pass this way again"
