Soulweaver Recap!

Hey everyone! We're officially back! Well, kinda. We'll be doing one chapter this week, and ramping up next week as I get back into the swing of things. As such, billing will remain paused until next week, so consider this a freebie. I've also written up a recap to jog peoples' memory, below.

I know I promised everyone bonus chapters - I haven't forgotten about those. I'm working hard to rebuild my buffer after the break, so expect those over the next couple of months.

As for Soulweaver's performance on Amazon, it's sadly been pretty lackluster, though I was so thrilled to see so much support from readers. I've been advised to drop the series by my writer friends, but I like this story too much to do that, and too many have contributed their time and effort to the task. The plan for now is to charge on and complete the series, which will likely end up being four books. Thanks again for all of your support!

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After defeating Cyrus the Great in the Cataclysm and returning to Basecrest to re-run Dominion’s Trial, Greg, Aerion, Passion’s Champion Richard, along with Rogar and Philip, all set out towards the Sylvanglades, guarding a caravan there. They share good memories together until Richard sets off toward Passion’s territory, while Philip and Rogar head to Dominium—the capital of Dominion’s territory—to take possession of the land Aerion and Greg have been awarded as part of their ascendancy to knighthood for aiding the land in collapsing the Cataclysm Dungeon.

Now alone, Greg and Aerion travel with the caravan as protection. Along the way, Greg & Aerion learn that this caravan is not in fact a trade caravan, but rather a force of Basecrest guards sent out to bait the elves in the forest into attacking—to provoke an all-out war in which Dominion’s forces hope to take the forest.

During a private moment, Aerion reveals her past to Greg, admitting that her family was due to govern Order’s territory—essentially making Aerion a princess—before her grandfather deserted his post to save his family. She believes he was set up by the rival family that now occupies the post. After this, her family was stripped of their noble status, and Aerion and her mother lived in destitution until her mother passed away, forcing Aerion to survive on her own as a child.

During this conversion, Greg and Aerion are captured by the elves and taken to their forest, where they are imprisoned.

They are brought before the elves’ ruling council in their great tree, where much to Greg and Aerion’s surprise, they encounter Elwend—the elf who gave them the protection detail mission in the first place.

They learn the truth of the situation—that Elwend is an undercover agent for the Elves, and that this was all an elaborate ploy to get Greg and Aerion to the forest, where the details of the greater political picture could be divulged in the hopes that they would come to the elves’ aid in diffusing the situation.

Greg, Elwend, and another of the council, a warrior elf by the name of the Sylrithar, agree to a decoy operation, whereby Greg will return to his troops and convince them of the elven threat. By doing so, Dominium will hesitate to attack them.

They plan to stage a battle between their two groups, but it will be a fake battle—for show only. After seeing the overwhelming might of the elves, Greg’s group will pull back, having saved face. In this way, the caravan will not be punished despite their failure, and the elves get what they want—a reprieve from Dominium’s conquest.

However, all does not go according to plan, and on the day of the planned battle, Greg’s soldiers encounter a force far larger than anticipated…