As you can see by the listing on the blog, Remnants of Atlantis is the second book in the series and I've been making pretty good progress on it and hope to have it ready to read and revise by the end of the month provided all goes well.
So far in the story the group that had been selected by the godhead have made the descent to the capital where oracles (specialized servants of the godhead that have regular contact with them) are waiting to help them with their tasks. As can be expected, the godhead left out a few details, like the houses are at war both in the center where the mages and priesthood of the five gods are trapped as well as the outer ring where the military and craftsmen were trapped. The group is divided up to perform their own tasks, but a stow away is discovered, an adoption ceremony is performed, and he is assigned some specific tasks as well.
The group uses the chaos that the city is in to establish themselves and start their godhead assigned tasks. Eldreth re establishes her relationship with her parents after having run away with Horus to marry him on the outpost. Ichtha meets her mother after so many years apart to find that her betrothal is not approved, and that is only one of a few points of contention between the two women. Alyse marries the love of her life, Isaac, and takes advantage of the fact that the weather mages are all trapped in the center and starts training children and young people the arts and of weather magic. The stow away becomes Drow, (the militarized version of a Sentinel, less watching and reporting and more stealth and execution) after receiving gills and after his first meal in the city gets put into a transforming bath of chemicals after being marked and prepared for the transformation, breathing the chemicals through his gills after having is throat blocked so he won't drown. The Oracle of the Dark Lady's daughters take a shine to the man and assist their father with his preparations and on a last minute impulse establish what they expect to be a temporary bond similar to what happens when Atlantians get married, and end up with more than they bargained for when the Dark Lady gets involved a bit more directly and approves of the match and orders them to marry the man. He receives additional adjustments on the Dark Lady's orders and becomes the Unseen Hand of the Dark Lady, a gray man. On the day of the marriage the gift is passed on to the wives, making the trio invisible while in plain sight and impossible to remember or describe, even while looking directly at them.
As the Unseen Hand of the Dark Lady starts his task, which involves specific kills to increase the chaos in both the center of the city and the outer rings, the secrets of who was involved in what sunk the capital come to light and not all of the news is easy to take.
Alyse finds herself called upon by the godhead to revert to skills she developed during a rebellious time in her life and becomes a thief of some skill and finds that some of the things she liberates happen to be needed by the man that had been the stow away and she becomes good friends with his wives, whom she nicknames Pills and Gills due to one being an alchemist and the other having tried to drown the man that became her husband in a fountain shortly after he had received his gills. Pills and Gills agree to help Alyse train her apprentices who master the skills of weather magic quickly in the more subtle arts of stealth and assassination to assist Alyse in her tasks of recovering items.
I'd go into more detail, but then it would ruin too much of the book. I'm making battles epic, tasks difficult on multiple levels. The characters grow a lot as they learn that the godhead didn't give them all the details, but provide the needed help exactly when it is needed, kind of how Heavenly Father (God) works today in our own lives.
To those who follow my blog, if you have any suggestions on a publisher that would be willing to give me a shot, email me at jonpaup@yahoo.com. I'll keep working on getting my books written as I keep submitting manuscripts in hopes of getting them published.
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