Prologue
Red haired innkeeper
introduced
Three kinds of silence bit
was laying it on thick at the start of the novel for my tastes.
Chapter 1
Townies are in a tavern
telling old stories about a powerful mage.
A farmer walks in, wounded., and brings in a spider monster he has
killed. Kote tells them it’s a demon and
proves it by showing how it reacts to iron. Kote later goes and meets his
apprentice Bast, and they reveal that they know it was not a demon, but
something similar. They are in town
hiding incognito. A mysterious chest in
Kote’s room is introduced. Later, we
learn that the townspeople don’t believe the tavern crew’s story about the
spider demon.
Ok, so you knew there was
something more to this innkeeper. Based
on the old legends, when they drop the fact that “names were important to him”,
you suspect he is a magician. And soon
his apprentice is introduced. But why do
they keep mentioning that he looks to young for the lines on his face – is he
actually young, but with a lot of experiences; or is he old and magically
keeping a young appearance?
Chapter 2
New character of chronicler is
introduced. A traveling scribe. He gets robbed, but is savvy enough to keep
some of his coin.
Sounds like he'll be important
later.
Chapter 3
Kote receives a piece of wood to mount his
sword, Folly. He puts it up in the tavern. A band of travelers stops in. One of
them recognizes him as Kothve, who killed a man in another town. Kote fakes an
injury and retires for the night, tells Bast to give the man a roofie. Next
day, Kote buys an iron bar from the smith and some gloves on the pretext of
pulling up a briar patch.
Slow reveal of Kote as someone
pretty interesting. Sounds like a bard. What's he going to make with that iron
bar?
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