Well, if this particular Pendragon had Merlin, then your friend might be right.
So ... Great King, King, Low King?
You could also use King, Low King, Tribe's King.
In the US Navy, one of the flag (Admiral) ranks has an Upper Half and a Lower Half, to provide five peacetime grades matching the Army's five peacetime grades.
So there are four grades, High/Pendragon, Great, Middle, and Low?
So ... King and Low King? How it works depends on how often the distinction must be made in direct address.
Which raises another question: are they styled differently?
Wait, I thought that High King is the Pendragon. Or have others claimed the title?
Amy, your mistakes are tiny scuff marks. Don't bother. I fear that in trying to polish one thing, you'll gut another.
Now, Merran and Jamen have yet to meet Kirsey. Don't worry about that yet. I'm considering an inversion soon after it happens.
I've got too much to improve early on. The later stuff you say reads well avoids all my writing weaknesses.
I've been needing far too much sleep lately, so I think I've been fighting off a bug. Just what I need when the deeps of winter are two weeks early. (I also got a nasty nerve pinch affecting my left leg, result of unhappy muscles in my hip. It's getting better after a 6-day triangular course of prednisone and ten days on a mid-strength NSAID. I'm using a cane, and relearning balance with every change--in other words, about every second day.)
I'm working now on another 'later' segment. There are some continuity conflicts with the Pike-Kirsey sketch, but they are fixable. I imagined it a while ago and I'd like to get it committed to bits.
Then, if the TNBW problems get fixed, I'll put things in order and get on with Erevain.
Right now I have to get back to some SMD MLCCs. It's my first time handling them and it's not going well. They're supposed to be reflowed, but it looks like I'll have to buy some paste solder.
Well, it's nice to be useful, if only in parading my mistakes so people can see them.
Kirsey doesn't know why The Academy wants to erase history. He does know that (a) it's a bad idea generally (look at all the mistake-lessons you lose!) and (b) the Academy is full of people who make wolves look like good company.
This is an ensemble story, with a lot of threads starting.
Pengrit isn't comic relief. She's a rescue.
Kirsey and Pike are going to be two power figures, but they each have their limits. Kirsey has abilities I haven't hinted at, but he's a lousy healer, for want of practice. I'm debating having him get a lesson from Merran or even Jamen.
There is a problem if you move chapters after you have older versions. The old ones can get auto-renumbered in ways that disturb your whole sequence.
It's on Sol's fix list, and I'm hoping dearly to hear it's in this next release.
I have to have a lot more worked out before I call Book 1 finished.
I can't leave it in this state, and besides, the polishing practice (okay, grinding practice) will help me need less of it when I move forward again.
I have another sketch of a future chapter with Pike. I may put it up as I rassle with Erevain's chapters.
I'd be careful about disrupting the story with too much reveal too early. I think your big challenge is making the containment vessel episode flow freely on the way in and the way out.
As Amy notes in her last review, there's a lot to be revealed. Speaking of which, the chapter 80 under Book Two might also be interesting.
I'd suggest skipping the modifier 'Middle' except perhaps when explaining. But what about 'Low' for 'Lesser'?
I've suggested that you spend a little more time describing your physical geography. What if you introduced at the same time your political geography: who is ruling whom and what their respective ranks are? This could provide both a logic and a gestalt to help the reader follow what's going on. With that underlying your action and the character presentation that flows from your action, you might have a much stronger picture at little or no cost to the reader.
High King, King, and ??? . 'Baron' is a modern title and likely wouldn't work.
Whatever you use, you'll need to introduce it repeatedly in the early chapters of each book.
You might be able to get away with introducing the system and the ranks in each volume, and identifying a King's rank each time he comes into the story, and thereafter calling him 'King' until he drops out and returns, as though you were reminding us of a person's last name.
Putting points in a group would seem to make sense only if that group represented a closed community with its own economy, cut off from the general economy. In other words, points appear (to me) to make sense only if the wrriter is not also being charged for posting to the community-at large.
Such a group would be a closed group, and should probably be allowed subgroups, just as non-point groups are used as subgroups of the premium group.
Thus the effect of the present group structure is to exclude rather than to include. The present group structure is a mix of what's needed to create a private, separate community and what's needed to create a discussion in one corner of a public space.
The mix isn't quite right.
Or place a bank of forums outside any group.
Please keep us up to date about the versioning/reordering problem.
Sounds like we need a bank of forums at the top level, outside of any groups. As well as the option to create forums for each work and sub-work.
It's always hard until you master it. I kick myself from time to time for not learning more when I had the chance.
A couple of years ago I looked to see if some of the classic textbooks I used were still in print. They were, in revised versions. I had winced at paying $35 for a book. The prices a very few years ago ranged from $165 to $180! Not medical, not legal. Just engineering.
Ouch.
Ramo, Whinnery and van Duzer had a fourth author in the revision. Simon is the Ramo in Bunker Ramo and the R in TRW. GREAT text. Somebody is piling up the revenues, and it ain't Simon Ramo.
Hear the Helmoltz with the dels.
Vector dels.
What a differential tale their operating tells.
How they div and grad and curl
On the fields. How heads whirl ...
Oh, the three-way pigeon flasher. Not the main flasher. When the batteries run low it will provide one bright red flash every six seconds. Otherwise, when the phone is connected and on-hook, one very brief flash every 25 seconds or so; when the phone is off-hook, it will be a yellow flash instead, every 25 seconds (roughly).
Not working yet.
An interesting little design whose flash rate changes little over a wide range of supply voltages.
Well, in his best stories, Ellery solves the problem more than once.
As much as I'd like you to review things, I have to wait until Sol and his team fix things so I can put my story back together. (See the wishlist and site bugs threads.) There is the chapter listed as 80 in Book II, if you want.
I have plenty to do for the next few days, so the time won't be a loss.
Not the reason. They have a low Equivalent Series Resistance and can operate at high frequencies with little loss. That means that they can pass sharp transients effectively.
Tantalums are commonly used as decoupling caps, allowing switching transients (think water hammer) generated in one section to run to the ground rail, keeping them from influencing other parts of the circuit.
Price: in their common values, maybe three to six times low-ESR aluminum electrolytics od the same size. Outside that range of values, they can be twenty times as expensive, one hundred times expensive, or not available at all.
For small caps ceramic, multilayer ceramic, and various polymer/film types can be used instead.
Two thoughts.
If you want to show that Tazar has an eidetic memory, you might move his old memory scenes to a previous chapter and here have him recall some hinted-at detail of how the guards handled him in the previous chapter.
Second, if there was someone 'inside' the Wolves at the Earthwound, we're running out of suspects, but ... what about that ring Airen wears?
