Project 10: Step Three

    I have had the hardest time with step three of the snowflake method, the part where the characters are written about. I have a great story, inspired by some pretty cool sources, but when I sit down to play D & D, the other players provide the character. This project, I need to do all the character work, and it's not my strong point. On the other hand, if I can't create a handfull of decent characters, I should just pack up and quit now, because no one wants to read a story with bad characters in it. So right now the plan is 10 minutes to write all I can about as many characters as I can think of.
   11:56pm 11/23/11
-The Prince, main character. He will be one of the overseers of the sunrise ceremony in the mining city. He flees the city, and leads the survivors first to The Great Fortress, and then north in a search for a new home.
-The Bodyguard, protector. He has watched over The Prince since The Prince was born, and first saw the need to flee the Mining City. He commands the surviving soldiers well, and acts as an advisor to the prince. He will most likely not make it through the lands of the Ape Men. His pressence kept the prince from being questioned.
-The Rival, a challenger. The Rival is a noble of high lineage and ambition, with men loyal to him, and little interest in following the young prince except out of necessity. The rafts he takes out of the Mining Town are foolishly overloaded wth gold instead of food. After the prince is crowned king, and the survivors clear the lands of the Ape Men, and the Bodyguard is dead, The Rival will lead his own group into the west rather than head north with the prince.
-The Astronomer, Haughty. One of the few females of the higher castes to make it out of the Mining City, she catches the prince's eye, but is very self important, and unfriendly. The Prince might have tried to make her The Queen of his new kingdom, but she succumbs to illness once they mingle with the other human settlement.
-The Priest, zealous. While the prince suffers constantly with his faith, the priest never fails to invoke the right god, or to keep the passage of time for noting holy days. While traveling, he is both storyteller and historian, recalling the past tales, and endlessly reciting pontoums to memory, as he has no other means of recording with him. Near the end, he advises the King to act against the other humans while he still can.
-The Slave, defiant. In the Great Fortress, one of the survivors who joins the group is a woman who was badly burned saving children from the chaos of the Evernight. She has contempt for the prince's group, but believes him when he says he will protect the children. Her burn will require the prince to take steps to ward off blood poisoning. They grow closer after the Astronomer dies, and he will likely keep her as his first concubine.
12:44am
And the problems with Little Bit continue. Why won't she stay in bed?? I could have typed more if I wasn't dealing with fatherhood.