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Over on the website, part one of the People section is now up and live. It covers the basic groups, some of which–elves, dwarves, and gnomes– have been discussed on this blog. I took out some bits of the blog info as not really necessary, and added some.
Additional groups discussed include the kuaknom/iynisin/dark cousins–those “fallen” elves the others don’t like to mention–and four basic, distinct human lineages: the Old Humans of the north, the magelords who came over the sea from Old Aare to Aarenis (and later, the north), the horse nomads, and the Seafolk. The people in the far west, beyond Kolobia, are peripheral enough (so far!) that they’re not being included.
Eventually (but not immediately–need to spend more time on the books proper) there’ll be more background information on specific people–both “current” (in book terms) and historical (ditto), myths and legends, religions, etc.
Comment by Eir de Scania — January 24, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Interesting read, thank you!
Comment by elizabeth — January 24, 2009 @ 11:15 pm
Glad you enjoyed it. I’m still wondering what is the best way to organize the mass of character names. Six and a half big fat volumes accumulates a lot of characters, even if you stop with “major secondary” level. I was looking at the concordance done for Bujold’s work, and it lists even minor characters…and is a fat section of the book I was reading.
Comment by Keenan — March 7, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
It might be the most logical to go with alphabetically. Easy to work with and fewer hurt feelings over which character might be viewed more significant than another.
You could then just have a directory of names with that jump you to a section with the representative letter and links to sub-pages about each character.
I suddenly got a flash of a huge database that was searchable by location, point in time, book, page number, and so on that you could cross reference they daylights out of. Hmm… As great as an idea it may sound, it would be a major project to generate and then make available on the website. Though, alphabetically is easy and has worked wonders for years.