Excerpt from The Age of Merrik’s Official Website:
A series of novels in the Sword Master Universe, The Age of Merrik tells the story of Merrik, the young ruler of Tyera destined for greatness. Along his journey, he meets many of the sword masters, including the Sword Master Regina.
With the help of his allies, he may be able to defeat Malik’s forces from controlling the world.
The Age of Merrik: The Anointing contains a special preview of The Age of Merrik: Rise of the New Masters.
An old blog post from 2007. Reposted.
For those of you who have read previous versions of The Age of Merrik–which officially reached back as far as 2000–you will be pleased to know that Cle’an plays a more important part. The sword masters (mildly referred to in the 2000 version) have a much fleshed out history and are truly legendary.
Zaedrif’s role has changed throughout the versions. Beginning in the 2005 version, Zaedrif is hailed as the great Prince and Sword Master of Nemea–a land further explained in this final version.
Working on the screenplay adaptation helped me to develop Zibiah, Zaedrif’s sister, and Cle’an’s admiration of Eleya.
The most recent change to the series is the place and function of “The Journey”. It is a place between the mind of the present and the mind of the future where only sword masters may go. Eleya’s position as the Sword Master Regina has become more important and will be more so in Rise of the New Masters.
from a recovered portion of a 2007 blog post
In The Anointing, “Zaedrif” and others are spelled with a joined “ae.” Beldare is “Beldare'” and Serafin has an accent over the “i”. Although these will be kept in the novels, for ease of accessibility use, my websites, including the wikis will not include these spellings. Characters will be listed in their simplified letter form.
“Sword Masters” are used in The Anointing and The Screenplay Adaptation. Other works list them as “Swordmasters”.
This is a recovered blog post. The original date of the blog post is estimated.
Contains spoilers and a spoiler reference to Chronicles of Narnia
SPOILERS AHEAD. . . Blogging at 11 . . .
“AHEM” SPOILERS!Ok, getting to another question.
What is the big deal with the vow? Why not break it?
What is with the “I think I might kiss her” obsession from John? What’s the big deal about kissing? Does it mean something else?
(Yeah, put the something else in “”)
To answer them all at once, the big deal with the vow is very cultural. To break it is to lose honor. And, consider the explanation of the vow. Merrik risks losing power by simply breaking it.
Kissing. That relates back to the vow. In real life, kiss all you want. Just be careful of mono. In the AOM world, if you are a sword master or wizard or other magic user, be careful not to lose your life. You are transferring your power to another, whether or not you want to.
The cautions of the vow become part of the culture, and even non-magic users (who may not know the origin) are cautious of it. As for “something else” it does not refer to that. Think of how much more power a character would lose that way. To answer an unspoken question, there was none of that between Merrik and Brianna. Good thing, Brianna did not need to absorb any magic power, and Merrik did not need to lose any.
I haven’t really decided what to do with her. In the previous version, I knew how she would show up again, but now, I am considering other ideas.
I had Brianna and Liana as reflections of each other. They were essentially the same, just on different sides of the battle. One difference . . .
The following post contains major spoilers for The Age of Merrik: The Anointing. It contains references to what may be classified as violence. This is mature content which may not be suitable for young readers.
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