I was asked 2 things by @ceph-the-ghost-writer, but again, I can never answer anything succinctly, so here is answer #1. #2 will come later or tomorrow because I'm honestly still writing it. LOL
🏆 - What is the end goal? What are your characters fighting for?
That is an interesting question and depends on which characters we’re talking about.
If we’re talking about Abriella and the other Horsemen, to hunt down the Princes and their legions. They are literally on a mission from The Source of All to eliminate the Princes. This is made slightly easier in that Lucifer was once considered one, and he is now on their side. So that leaves six. While the Princes started as Fallen from Heaven, they learned not long after the Fall how to realm jump and have been wreaking havoc across creation, so that is why they are to be exterminated by the Horsemen.
Azreal, Raguel, Arioch, Adriel, Michael, and Leandre (and Deacon will) want revenge on Gabriel for what happened to Yael
Leviathan, one of the Princes, had bartered with Lucifer for Abriella’s soul, which he has since lost through a very complex storyline. His goal is to get her back.
Gabriel is dead set on getting Yael back and punishing her.
Kellen, he is a search for his Queen and to keep Persephone from driving him to madness. He also is fighting wars his father started, and trying to keep Uffern from falling to their enemies. His goal is to bring peace to Uffern, expand the Uffernian empire, and…find a Queen. Not necessarily in his order. The problem is that Kellen has a bit of an ego, and not all of it is undeserved. He is very powerful, and, as such, has a lot of females who just want that power to use and not because they actually like Kellen. Kellen tends to get bored of most females pretty fast, so that adds a layer.
Karlen wants to find the redhead that he’s been hopping in and out of dreams of for the last 300 years. He is the only one who believes she exists. Everyone else thinks an old battle injury has made him delusional. The last place he is sure she was, was New Orleans before she told him in the last dream he dropped into that she was going somewhere that she wasn’t sure he could find her. He’s rather stubborn, so we’ll see.
Korben…he’s a bastard…I’m not even going to touch what he wants.
Calliope wants away from her older brothers, and to have a life.
What DOESN’T Persephone want?
Grae wants to keep Kellen’s ass out of trouble, keep Uffern out of war, and Adalicia. In what order depends on the day, or hour sometimes.
As you can see there isn’t one goal for everyone. In some cases, there can be many of the characters with the same end goal, but their own side agendas. For others, they are still off on their own quests and haven’t ran into the main group yet. A friend of mine described it as a supernatural/fantasy soap opera with a lot more blood and gore, and that might be the best example I can think of as well. You have several storylines existing simultaneously in the same verse, but with different end goals, and sometimes different villains. They intersect and interact, but their end goal is not the same for the majority of the time.
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