Day 8 of 365 days of blogging.
Skyemera is the main character of my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Maenad, which will be Book 1 of the Age of the Forgotten Ones series. She is a Maenad, a mythical creature that hasn’t existed in over a millennium. In Part 1, we talked about her basic demographic information. As the interview progresses, we will delve further into what makes her and other characters tick.
Do you ever train with a master? If so, what for?
Absolutely. There’s this situation at home when my powers start to come in. They’re not like anything my people have ever seen before. They’re also tied pretty closely to my emotions, so I can’t exactly control them. Since there hasn’t been another maenad for a thousand years, it’s not like my family can just send a message and ask what to do. So they send me away to train with someone who knew the last maenad personally. Oh yeah, and the world thinks he’s dead. It’s a bit shocking to find out that the history we’re taught isn’t always accurate. Anyway, I travel to his training facility in the southern mountains far from my home, and I work on learning to control my powers. I also learn how to wield a staff. When I make it back home, everything is going to be so different from when I left.
How do you spend your spare time?
Along the eastern shore, outside of the Tribunal Forest, is a copse of gnarled oaks. My favorite thing to do is to go out there, climb in amongst their twisted branches until I am invisible, and listen to the sound of the waves as they hit the shore. It might seem strange when others my age are out frolicking through the forest and wanting to visit the human town, but I rather enjoy the quiet solitude. I feel like the trees understand me.