User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/Seven Tears Shed/@comment-2142396-20161012191209/@comment-7662967-20161013073639

Yay! :D Yeaaaa ... sorry about that. Just so you know, I totally plan to write that battle scene cause it was an awesome battle. I was super run down and uninspired when I wrote that, I just didn't have it in me to write a good battle ... and there's nothing worse than a poorly written battle. So I kinda put a place holder right there, and I plan to come back and fix it :)

Oh, believe me, he rather suspects Ublaz knows. If anything, he's guessed how Ublaz sees all more than any of his friends. He looked through that crystal ball as a child, and he's very good at putting two and two together. Even if he doesn't know how it's done, he knows the Monitors are a key part ... one reason why he killed them. Honestly, Rasconza is one of the most dangerous characters ... where Romsca uses brute force, Val trusts luck, and Xzaris relies on faith, Rasconza uses his intellect. He is devious, and even his simplest plans are brutally effective. So watch out ... ;)

Basically, he just wants to be left alone. He's not against associating with others as long as it's at a comfortable distance. Really it has a lot to do with how he left Icetor/got the scars and also how he was received by the woodlanders outside of Icetor. He hides behind a cloak partly because he figures the world would rather not see him, and because being intimidating and alone is better than being mocked or attacked. He finds peace in a good amount of seclusion.

Yup. Very, very bad idea on their part. But of course, they're worried about Sayna and Durral, and for all they know they're starving to death in some dungeon. So they took the direct approach, I mean, how were they to know Sampetra is so well organized? It's not like foreigners and travelers find solace there and bring stories of their impressive defenses to the rest of the world. They thought they could get away with it ... they were wrong. Also they're novices when it comes to tact, Plogg, Welko, Hood, And Clecky are the only fairly experienced ones among them .. and they're several weeks behind Romsca. Time is crucial to them ... besides, a pirate ship and pirate clothes in a pirate port /should/ be the perfect disguise ... right? Ehh ... wrong.

Yes, finally I get to start showing off the inner workings of my favorite villain! :D Yea, I think I did confirm that theory as correct, or maybe I didn't to avoid spoilers, but yes, he was a crew member on Conva's father's ship. Ublaz, Romsca, and Lutran's lives mirror each other very closely, but if anything, Ublaz had it harder. And to be honest, what certain otters did to him was downright savage and utterly horrific. His story is truly a tear-worthy tragedy, but because he is so cold, I did not want to show it right away lest it be seen as me excusing him. Also I did not want his past to define him, because he as a character strives to not let it do so, and that happens with far to many villains. But it is one reason he rarely leaves his defended palace, he loves the feeling of power, but even more the security. But one of the things I subtly show through them is the circumstances of a beast's life aren't what make them a villain or a hero, it's their reaction to hardship or otherwise.

It is, Sagitar can't stand how submissive Shilo is. She was never like that as a child, she fought, she killed, and she hated authority ... where Shilo simply obeys as best he can. This from her son is simply unbearable ... she wants him to eventually become her successor. Honestly, that ambition is the only reason she pursued a relationship with Skulrag, so she could have one child and groom them to be general of the Ratguard. Of course ... Shilo is just not what she desired. She was ok with him being small and weak as long as he could make up for it with wit, slyness, and tact .. but he's none of those things, and that makes her see him as a positive waste of time.

Aww, yea, Shilo finds a friend in Sayna, and later in Durral, in fact when she dies, I think Sayna charges Durral to watch over him.

Yeaaa ... no. Merith's gonna keep around half of that. But yea, she really does value Kage. On one paw he's her ticket out of Kia's claws, but she also truly cares about his well being. Though she is possessive of him (understandably, he's been her boyfriend for three or four seasons) So when he tries flirting with Romsca, that doesn't settle with her. Of course, it doesn't settle well with Xzaris either, so Kage is in hot water with both of them until Romsca finds herself forced to reject him and promise Merith she was never trying to steal him (which is what Merith assumes)

Sadly they are, and while they do bond more, they always are more distant than Arashi would like. Partly because Romsca doesn't really emotionally recognize her as her mother .. she intellectually knows, but she isn't sure how to act around her. After all, she never had anything remotely close to a mother .. consequently she feels very awkward. For Arashi, she really doesn't know her daughter personally. They would fight to the death for each other because they are family and both are loyal past reason, but conversations are rather awkward. At least for now.

The dragons are afraid of any who turn on their own kind, and to them, all furbeasts are as good as the same species. As it is explained in this book, long before Scound came, there were many islands and many dragons. Then great shifting and earthquakes caused most to sink, and those dragons that were left overpopulated Sampetra, finally turning on one another in cannibalism. Deranged and blood thirsty, these became the Ferals, and the rest locked themselves away lest they suffer the same fate or die at their claws. But Scound and his people took war to the Ferals, and the dragons slowly came to trust them and befriend them, until they also turned upon other furbeasts, the woodlanders. Of course the dragons feared the pirates would also turn feral, so they locked them out. As they grew stronger, they drove them out of their outposts back to one city out of fear they would destroy the dragons forever. So there is a lot of Sampetrian ruins, mining towns, farms, port cities in other places, shipyards, fishing towns and more.


 * Ahahah!* Val is a hamster! What a perfect description of her :D (Really, it's so perfect!) I own gerbils, so yea ... though hamsters even more so. Cute and fluffy, but little stinkers too .. (I used to hamster-sit for my neighbor) She is perfectly willing to be her crazy, happy, random self and let her friends lead, but when she gets stuck in a position of power, she gets a lot more snappish, especially when things don't go her way. Partly because she wants to prove she is strong and capable, and partly because she want's to protect those who need her. And she is mad at Lutran ... he's going to regret his bad attitude, cause Val hold a nasty grudge. Even when he wants to make up, I doubt she will. He really blew it there.

Really, it's not Val Lutran is mad at. It's Romsca and Barranca. But Val brought them to him seeking solace, two of the beasts he loves to hate the very most. So consequently he takes it out on everyone, cause that's how he manages stress. If Val had just shown up with a couple woodlanders and some random vermin, their reunion would have been far nicer. Oh. He knows how to demoralize the strongest of beasts and bring proud beasts to tears of fury. lol Lutran doesn't feel bad about degrading peaceful woodlanders or woodlanders he feels are soft or privileged, he has no respect for that. That's not to say if someone like Durral or Tansy was in danger that he wouldn't protect them, he would, he just sees them as helpless and a little bit inferior.

You know, he is a lot like Surt ... they could agree on a pile of things. But since Surt is a vermin, and a strong one at that (probably equally matched against Lutran) they probably would kill each other XP

It is. But Barranca's more in the back of things. Romsca was right in the middle of Lutran's capture, she was the one that brought the otters food, she slapped him, she was supposed to protect his family, she did this, she did that. She also has the audacity (in his mind) to claim she spared Grath, as if this should justify her. So he hates her, he absolutely despises her because to him, she was a lot more involved in their capture even though she didn't really do much. However, after Grath shows up and verifies her story, he starts to fixate his anger on Barranca more and more. But he hates them both, even to the point of trying to murder Barranca and succeeding in murdering Romsca once. Of course, these actions get completely out of paw and result in something that shatters Lutran's confidence and hatred into nothing. Sad as it will be, it simply had to happen.

Yea ... those dragons XD They can shift from crack-brained pranksters to deadly killers in about half a second. Though they are fairly impressionable. Because they once were friends with furbeasts, they are quite willing to do so again. Vermin and woodlanders have no differences to them, they are either friend or food. If one shows loyalty to lord Isan and preforms a service to the dragons, then they view them as a dragon too. If they fight against them, they're dinner. When they meet Romsca and co. they aren't sure which one they're going to be XP