User blog comment:Astar Goldenwing/The Coming of Badger Lady/@comment-2142396-20160306180245

First of all, I want to apologize for the late replies – I don’t have as much free time as I used to, but I want you to know that I read and appreciate every comment.

@SaynaSLuke: I’m glad you like the dreams! They were actually a spur-of-the-moment idea, but in the end I grew to be really invested in them – they became basically a side story on their own. Ooh, I really do love your crazy theories! There is a link between Cregga and the badgerwife, you are right about that, and as for the rest… we will see! Hoho, Cregga may well be in over her head– after all, she tends to be terribly reckless. Remember how she left Salamandastron to chase after the Rapscallions? I tried to keep her personality as close to canon as I could, with certain amends considering she is still young here, but I did bring in some of the older Cregga’s traits there. Yeah, Bloodwrath isn’t something you want to mess with, just ask Damug Warfang. Oh wait, you can’t. Last time he was seen he was described as ‘the mangled remains of Damug Warfang’… You can see the trend in the way Cregga had dealt with that ferret. And thanks, I wanted to make the death of Cregga’s mother more poignant by having the situation to be more trivial. There was no great war or ravishing horde or ultimate warlord against whom Cregga could have sworn revenge, just one bandit who thought he could get whatever he wanted because he was armed. And yet, what happened is no less tragic or sad because of that…

@Segalia: Yes, most of the vermin villains just prefer to keep slaves as opposed to letting the woodlanders work for them, but Verdauga did something similar, taxing Mossflower beasts for ‘protecting’ them. Actually, the main reason this particular band uses this overlord tactic is because it’s not big or strong enough to actually take over, but you’ll see it later. Ah yes, Cregga makes it her goal to protect all those who are weaker, I guess you can say it’s in her blood – her father devoted his whole life to defending these lands from vermin, and Cregga is very determined to follow in his footsteps. And right you are again, the dreams do take part in the past – though keep in mind that Cregga doesn’t know as much about Salamandastron as we do, so she has no idea if what she sees is from past, present or even future… Oops, my bad! I so used to seeing word ‘to don’ used in phrases like ‘don one’s armor’ or ‘don one’s helmet’ so I just assumed it would be a good word to use regarding the weapons, too.