Thanks Jess A, those sound like some really cool ideas. I've actually been sort of playing around with the idea of the husband and wife I mentioned before having a child. In my story, the final 'descendants' of the gods don't yet realize that the power of the gods is infused in them - they need...
Thanks, Jess A! I have definitely considered making the primary villain of the story be a POV character as well, but that I feel would just be way too many POVs. :confused:
I have been contemplating though how the story would end - after the final battle between the descendants of the six gods...
Thanks for the input, wordwalker!
I agree with you about the good vs. evil thing... and I hadn't really intended for "good" and "evil" to be the primary cosmic forces, as you say. Rather I was going more for a "light vs. dark" type concept - when the six gods originally created the world, they...
It definitely is a multicultural world. Each continent has very different cultures/peoples.
The continent on the sea is made up of hundreds of different islands. I see this as sort of a Viking-like culture - most of the small islands are made up of fishermen who spend years on end traveling...
Thanks for the input! I haven't decided yet if this will be a series - this is my first major attempt at writing an epic fantasy novel, and if this were a series it would likely have to be six books, one for each major character, and possibly a seventh for when they all meet up against the main...
I'm still in the very early stages of my WIP, but I just wanted some thoughts and opinions on a few things.
In a nutshell, the story takes place in a world created by six gods/goddesses - one goddess, known as the Mother Goddess, created the foundation of the world, while the other five gods...