Savil is going to be so pissed. And depending on whether the full story comes out before or after Yfandes gets her head together and comes back (I haven't decided which is better), she may feel like she has no space at all to *express* any of that to Van. She's going to be hella uncomfortable about the extent of the gods' involvement (and honestly this may make her more sympathetic to Van), and either way, she has to come to her own opinion on the whole thing.
(Also Rolan is going to find out some stuff. I seem to have ended up thinking of Rolan as less experienced and capable than Taver, not sure why. Anyway need to decide how he reacts too! Yfandes is definitely going to get yelled at, because, well, she just up and *left* her Chosen for days without even warning anyone, that is pretty unacceptable, Van's downward spiral after she left was very predictable, and she is INCREDIBLY luck that Savil and Melody started looking for Van when they did.)
I haven't really decided where to go with Dara – she gets basically no characterization in this section. Although *something* interesting is going to happen with her long-range Foresight, I just haven't figured out *what*.
Yeah, Van's mind looks really, really messed up to a Mindhealer. I chickened out of describing it from Jisa's POV bc I wasn't sure I could do it justice and leaving it to the reader's imagination seemed maybe better. Do you think more of Jisa and Van's relationship would be good to add to this book, or more of an explore-later thing? (I think she's just now getting to the age where they could start to have real intellectual conversations, which obv is very important to Van for connecting to people. Also in canon she deduces him being her biological father when she's 12, which is soonish and I'll cover that in the next section). Jisa has definitely inherited Van's stubbornness, and honestly I think she got a double dose of it – Shavri can be hella stubborn as well.
The next part is still a formless pile of meta – obviously Van dealing with the revelation from Leareth and the impact on his relationships with Yfandes and Savil is going to be a big part of it, but I haven't even started on an outline. (I had hoped book 7 would be the last book, but it seems clear at this point that there's a LOT of the story left).
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(Also Rolan is going to find out some stuff. I seem to have ended up thinking of Rolan as less experienced and capable than Taver, not sure why. Anyway need to decide how he reacts too! Yfandes is definitely going to get yelled at, because, well, she just up and *left* her Chosen for days without even warning anyone, that is pretty unacceptable, Van's downward spiral after she left was very predictable, and she is INCREDIBLY luck that Savil and Melody started looking for Van when they did.)
I haven't really decided where to go with Dara – she gets basically no characterization in this section. Although *something* interesting is going to happen with her long-range Foresight, I just haven't figured out *what*.
Yeah, Van's mind looks really, really messed up to a Mindhealer. I chickened out of describing it from Jisa's POV bc I wasn't sure I could do it justice and leaving it to the reader's imagination seemed maybe better. Do you think more of Jisa and Van's relationship would be good to add to this book, or more of an explore-later thing? (I think she's just now getting to the age where they could start to have real intellectual conversations, which obv is very important to Van for connecting to people. Also in canon she deduces him being her biological father when she's 12, which is soonish and I'll cover that in the next section). Jisa has definitely inherited Van's stubbornness, and honestly I think she got a double dose of it – Shavri can be hella stubborn as well.
The next part is still a formless pile of meta – obviously Van dealing with the revelation from Leareth and the impact on his relationships with Yfandes and Savil is going to be a big part of it, but I haven't even started on an outline. (I had hoped book 7 would be the last book, but it seems clear at this point that there's a LOT of the story left).