Talk:Characters/@comment-180.248.5.57-20180304204232/@comment-34666853-20180304231151

I've tried my hands on making a book. Still am. Names are the easiest. If I say Tribu Awi'th Intarii means "our family" in old tongue and Kuta Paanangadaet translates to "Fort Shield", what's my reader gonna do? The hardest thing to do is to integrate the characters with the setting, the mythos, and the history so fully that you cannot discuss one without the others.

Take George R.R. Martin's magnum opus, A Song of Ice and Fire, and one of his most tragic character, Theon Greyjoy. Stefan Sasse made something akin to a psychological profile for the character that is rooted in his upbringing and in the politics and events of the saga like so:

towerofthehand[dot]com/blog/2012/02/22-prevented-stark/noscript[dot]html

Or leaving enough details to gleam certain events so fully rooted in the setting and its history like how the Night's Watch got to its decrepit state without explicitly telling the reader:

towerofthehand[dot]com/blog/2013/04/09-history-of-nights-watch/noscript[dot]html

Or even building settings that makes so much sense given the history of the house associated with it:

towerofthehand[dot]com/blog/2014/09/04-castles-of-westeros/noscript[dot]html

Replace [dot] with a dot and you're good to go. If there is no essay, there's a top center section that says "Scope of books read", set it to A Dance with Dragons.