Wren & co are overnight guests in some haunted ruins and Bruce finds a bottle of old wine. Of course he wants to play a drinking game.
From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.
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Not really. Jenny Two-Knives might think of herself as a necessary evil to keep the Blackboots strong and therefore safe and successful. The Magnus knows he does despicable things but thinks the ends completely justify the means.
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#AprilAdventure The first encounter in Thief of Death is really when Spencer and Wren meet in chapter one. He thinks he's digging up the grave a of a restless spirit, but instead he discovers he has dug up an angry (and alive) woman. It is awkward for both of them, lol. #Wrencer #Writesky
#AntagonistApril Spencer and Wren have differing views. Wren sees the Blackboots and their leader Jenny as opportunistic and selfish, but not EVIL. Spencer is more inclined to say that being selfish and hurting people for your own benefit is indeed evil. 1/2
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#AprilAdventure Wren's goal changes slightly. First it's to find a mage who can break the enchantment on the necklace so she can give it to the Magnus without guilt. This shifts to destroying the necklace outright once Spencer explains how dangerous it is. #Wrencer #WritingPrompts #Writesky
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Spencer doesn't have anything he regrets enough to want to change. Wren, on the other hand, has two points she would consider. The first one is something she has carried guilt for since she was a child. When she was 8 there was a 🧵
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Spencer and Wren sneak out of Fenholt in the most Spencer and Wren fashion ever. And we meet a new character.
From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.
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#AntagonistApril 8
The first villain Spencer and Wren defeat is Skunner, the second in command of the Blackboots, Wren's old gang. His goal was to capture Wren and the necklace she stole and turn both of those over to an even bigger villain for a fat stack of money. #Wrencer #WritingPrompts
#AprilAdventure 8
Wren has been on an adventure or 3, and she's a bit of a planner, so she starts off with money, equipment, clothes, and everything she needs. She just loses it all immediately when she gets waylaid by her old gang. Fortunately 🧵
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#AprilAdventure 7
For Wren things begin with a little bit of desperation and a lot of frustration. She wants to handle the problem of this cursed necklace quickly and quietly and keeps getting derailed, first by her old thieving crew catching her and then by Spencer getting mixed up 🧵 #Wrencer
#AntagonistApril 7
I don't know if she counts as the villain G.O.A.T. but she did do a lot of damage. In ancient times, when the Fain Empire ruled most of the world, there was a priestess of death named Shandavara. She lost her lover which drove her against her god 🧵
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It doesn't come up in the story, but Wren would be considered demisexual. (like myself) She doesn't feel a sexual attraction until she knows someone well and has a deep level of trust with them. The idea of kissing a stranger or having a one night stand weirds her out. #Wrencer
#AprilAdventure 6
Neither Wren or Spencer ever really asks themselves if they WANT this adventure. Both feel like it's the right thing to do and are committed to doing it, regardless of the backlash. Wren is resistant at first to accepting help from Spencer because she... 1/2
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#AntagonistApril Kind of? In the first two books, there's definitely a necromancer, but, it turns out not to be the person the MCs thought it was. Also, there is a hidden villain pulling the strings of the other villains who doesn't appear until book 3.
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Spencer and Wren are doing their best to figure out how to be in a relationship together.
From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.
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Wren gets into a fight with a stranger in Spencer's garden.
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I think there are reasons to sympathize with Var Krugan, whose desire to dominate death began when he lost his wife and son during a difficult childbirth. He took things too far to become redeemable though. 1/2
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#AprilAdventure 5
Spencer dug up a grave expecting to find a restless spirit and found a tied up, angry, and very alive women instead. Who left behind a strange necklace.
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#AntagonistApril There are multiple villains in the series. In the start, the main villain is Magnus (his title) Elrik Var Krugan who hired Wren to steal the Necromancer's Yoke so he could use the artificact to defeat death and take over the world. 🧵
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#AprilAdventure In Thief of Death, the inciting incident happens before the book starts, when Wren takes a job to steal a necklace, then discovers the necklace is cursed with dark magic. Rather than handing it over, she runs to Fenholt with it, in the hopes of neutralizing the magic. #Wrencer
#pretendpanel Humor is an important part of my writing. I am not "laugh out loud" funny and I am not comedy genius by any means, but I like to sprinkle sarcasm and funny quips in there, especially in moments of darkness. Humor gets me through hard times 🧵
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Spencer takes Wren on her first Veil Walk.
From Thief of Death, a romantic fantasy about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.
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#AprilWorldbuilders Fenholt is built near a river and has canals diverting water through the city. There are also numerous wells, as the water table is rather high in the area. The tricky part is keeping the water clean near such a large hub of people and industry. #Wrencer #WritingPrompts
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The first antagonists we meet are Bricks and Davey Bones, two henchmen for the Blackboot gang who have caught our FMC Wren and buried her alive to teach her a lesson about skipping out on the crew. They are reoccurring thorns in Wren's side.
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#AprilAdventure 3
The MCs in Thief of Death are Spencer Thorne, a priest of the Gray Lady (goddess of death) and Wren Bower, a thief and antiques dealer. There's plenty of fun secondary characters as well, such as Spencer's cousin Bruce and his acolyte, Elton.
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It obviously has to do with corpses, but like, in a wholesome way? They were probably camping out all night so Spencer could talk a recently deceased ghost through their unresolved business and cross over the veil to eternal rest. 🧵
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#AprilAdventure 2
The story starts in Fenholt, an independent city state. It's big and old and full of religions, bureaucrats, merchants, criminals, and people just trying to make a living. I have worked hard to make it feel lived in and like its own character in the story. #Wrencer #Writesky
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Yes. One of the main antagonists in Thief of Death are the Blackboots, which is a criminal organization that Wren belonged to when she was young. She ran away from them because they were abusive and controlling. They saw that as a 🧵
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Wren and Spencer have both felt like fools after bad romances. Wren's first crush (a fellow thief) left her to get caught by the city watch during a robbery so he could get away. Spencer's fiancé was only with him because 🧵
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Spencer tries to do that stupid thing where he sends his friends to safety then goes back to fight the bad guys alone and Bruce, wisely, doesn't let him.
From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.
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