WHAT NOW?!?! Firstly: Book 7 soon, but also... (Patreon)

Author’s Note:

HOOOOOLY GODS! That took a lot longer than I expected. Chapter 122, the beginning of book 5, was the official start of the Worldly Path, and now we’re here! All the way at chapter 192! You know what I planned for? Well, probably not— So I’m going to tell you! I planned for one book. ONE. Maybe 300k words. Or 450k since I do like fully fleshed out worlds. Not two books. Least of all not ~1.43 million words. They were not wasted words, though, since Erick got to explore SO MUCH and meet so many new people and cultures. (though we still have lots of other places that remain mostly mysteries)

Treehome Arc. Tenebrae / Twisted Vision Arc. Songli Arc. Grass Traveler Arc. Enduring Forge Arc. Core Arc. Wrought Arc. And then finally, the Ar’Cosmos Arc.

Not to mention Jane’s Fun Times in Ar’Kendrithyst, featuring soul slime amalgamations and body horror.

So many things changed from the draft to the final product, mostly due to characters finding very interesting things to do and then doing them, and also the world reacting to their presences and actions. Erick is a very wily guy, getting into all sorts of mischief all over the place, and the rest of them are barely any better.

The draft I wrote to help me know what the Worldly Path would look like looks nothing like the final product. And for that, I am glad. I am very happy with how the Worldly Path turned out. Erick is in a good place of his own making and power. Jane is there, too, and I’m sure she’s going to get around to doing her own thing now that Erick has settled down… Maybe? Who knows! (I have plans, and they might actually get followed a bit, but I do like it when characters live in the world they inhabit). 

I’ll have a draft for the next book done soon, and then come actual chapters.

I’m sure many of you have already guessed what Erick wants the next part of his life to be about (basebuilding and solving problems and maybe, actually, relaxing for real. Maybe he’ll finally make himself a hot tub like he’s always wanted!) and so he’s certainly going to try to do that…

But the Worldly Path was supposed to be a simple vacation.

(it was never going to be a simple vacation)

And so—

The next chapter, Chapter 193, is the epilogue to book 6, and the Worldly Path. It’ll probably be a short chapter. That chapter comes out next week, normal time.

And then I will be taking a week off to plan the next leg of Ar’Kendrithyst. I might take a second week, too, though that second week is doubtful. I do love to write. However long the break lasts, Patreon will remain 6 chapters ahead of RR, for RR will suffer a missed time period of publishing just like y'all.

Chapter 194, the Start of Book 7, will come out soon enough.

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