Sorcerer Rising Second Edition Changes

Holy crap. I wrote this post in May of last year. Please do not confuse my awe with pride, as I am ashamed it has taken me this long to thaw myself out.

The first sentence for the original post initially read, “In my most recent update for FayTown Calling, I made mention of the second edition I released for Sorcerer Rising.” I have no idea what post I am actually referring to, so sorry. But I did revise Sorcerer Rising early last year. The main purpose of that was editing, making sure that I didn’t just leave the quality of the book where I thought it needed to be.

The rest of this post is from May of last year.

Content changes were minor. Off the top of my head, there were a few scenes that I elaborated on, fleshed out. None were added, thought I did think hard about changing something around the ending. I have entertained that off and on for the past year, and maybe one day I’ll throw the idea out there, but for now I chose to keep it the same.

The BIGGEST content change I made was around two words, hardly even used in the book. One didn’t play into Sorcerer Rising’s plot at all, but will kinda be a big deal in FayTown Calling. The other played into Virgil’s past in a big way.

So, first I will start with Annwyn, formerly known as Pan. Mentioned a total of maybe five times in Sorcerer Rising, Annwn/Pan is the homeland of the Fay. Originally, Pan was a fill in name. I had a concept of the Fairy Continent, but no idea what I wanted to call it. Not until years into FayTown Calling (where I was still calling it Pan), while I was driving home from work, did I think of to call it what I am calling it now.

The second word, and the one I am more excited about, is Hyperborea. In Sorcerer Rising, you know this as Ander. I was never happy with this, must have changed it half a dozen times. At one point, I was calling it…alright, I just looked it up and couldn’t find it. No idea what I was calling it, but that’s how forgettable or terrible it was. Ander was a nonsense word to replace whatever that was.

Hyperborea came about after thinking more and more about the history of this country. As a recap, Hyperborea is small city-state somewhere in Europe (left purposely vague), known as the land of Sorcery. When almost all the rest of the world falls under the sway of the Guild, Hyperborea alone took its magics into its own hands. Through decades, some say centuries, of eugenics and breeding, they developed a population of mages. Their entire culture was built around magic, many called it a land of plenty. It was isolated from the world for much of its development, a utopia that many other nations had legends about. They were largely ignored, right up until they declared war on the world.

There was one last change, and that falls right in the beginning of a flashback chapter. I don’t want to give away anything, but the people from Virgil’s life before have had some name changes. I recently developed out those characters, who they were to Virgil and, more importantly, who they were as people.

Just wanted to recap those changes.

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