#probably her

Hey friend!

My knee-jerk reaction was Kaar Kulok. He was never meant to be a major player, but now, the end of Prince for Hire would be impossible without him. That said, I think the character who takes the cake for "most changed from original concept" is Batar ni Musyr. She was meant to be a minor antagonist (whose role was sort of combined with Kaar's), and then she became not only one of the key protagonists (third on the list, after Kiris and Iiriok), but a huge character in her own right, to the point where I might have to write a sequel just for her.

No one ever expected Batar to sit on Msvoulga's throne, and accordingly, she was groomed to be the family assassin to serve at her older sibling's whims. She's the youngest of the Novgor Princes to have earned a title; despite that she's barely in her twenties she's one of the most feared people in the Plateau; it would be insanely easy for her to keep perpetuating the fear, the pain, the sorrow her family wanted her to embody. Instead, she's doing her utmost to reject that.