Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
James has covered that before. Threatened to kill him off if people kept asking about it. Getting Grandpa out of the way is what has allowed the story to unfold. He knows too much and would be a big spoiler. Have the kids learned things doesn’t know, probably but I don’t think the Ancient Mariner will show up until the very end.
Not killing him off is (what I consider to be) the most major mistake I’ve made with this story.
Killing him off would have allowed the story to unfold without people asking about him…and REALLY would have put the onus on the characters to figure things out for themselves. Every time I think about it, I get a little more mad at myself for not doing it.
I am sorry I asked. I only asked because it would have been amusing to see him make it through that fog bank on those old sailing vessels. It would be a good way to spread out more detail that the reader knows and the main characters do not.
Please don’t kill him off, the suspense of his ambiguous existence actually adds to the story and he could still be useful 😉
It’s no problem. 🙂
The scenario you described is pretty close to the way it was going to happen actually. Him coming across the water, coming to the shore…and finding out that the world had ended and he had missed it.;)
Grandad or not, ‘wisdom of the elders’ or not, there are some lessons that can’t be learned until you experience them for yourself.
James, even if you’d killed grandad, some readers would be asking about granpa’s files and his safety deposit boxes… and what he told grandma over pillow talk, and….
That’s the problem…all of that stuff (notes and talks and stuff) is accounted for.
But leaving him alive ’til the epilogue….that’s where the mistake happened, It leaves that really big thread out there…which was supposed to resolved in the conclusion/epilogue of everything.
But he’s till out there though…and when you compound that with the fact that this comic has ran for a long time, and people tend to think that more time has passed in world than actually has….it turns the whole thing into a gigantic f#@! up on my part.
In an alternate universe (one where I was smarter about writing this thing), he was killed in the car bombing that landed Jessica Tindal in a stasis tank. I swear it.
Who says they’re even entitled to it? I do this comic like the real world…things aren’t always neatly resolved, and people often don’t get a happy ending.
Killing him off would have allowed the story to unfold without people asking about him…and REALLY would have put the onus on the characters to figure things out for themselves. Every time I think about it, I get a little more mad at myself for not doing it.
Ahhhh well…. 🙁
Please don’t kill him off, the suspense of his ambiguous existence actually adds to the story and he could still be useful 😉
It’s no problem. 🙂
The scenario you described is pretty close to the way it was going to happen actually. Him coming across the water, coming to the shore…and finding out that the world had ended and he had missed it.;)
James, even if you’d killed grandad, some readers would be asking about granpa’s files and his safety deposit boxes… and what he told grandma over pillow talk, and….
But leaving him alive ’til the epilogue….that’s where the mistake happened, It leaves that really big thread out there…which was supposed to resolved in the conclusion/epilogue of everything.
But he’s till out there though…and when you compound that with the fact that this comic has ran for a long time, and people tend to think that more time has passed in world than actually has….it turns the whole thing into a gigantic f#@! up on my part.
In an alternate universe (one where I was smarter about writing this thing), he was killed in the car bombing that landed Jessica Tindal in a stasis tank. I swear it.
Keeping the Mariner alive allows Targeter and Miko to extract their “pound of flesh” when he does get back. Don’t rob them of that, Lord Roden.
Who says they’re even entitled to it? I do this comic like the real world…things aren’t always neatly resolved, and people often don’t get a happy ending.
And ANYBODY can die, here.