hey spirit animals fans. a few nights ago i got an idea that i wanna know your opinions on.
my original plan for my spirit animals project was to write path of the heroes, a fourth arc that picks up shortly after the events of the dragon's eye, and to rewrite certain moments in the previous arcs to give context for major changes. but recently, i thought about adding a new instalment to this project.
it would be a collection of short stories, like the special editions, taking place in the six-month timeskip between the burning tide and heart of the land. the entirety of this book would follow abeke's quest -- her search for uraza and their eventual reunion, then their adventures afterwards as they rebond, work through their trauma and encounter things that may or may not foreshadow the direction of the coming books. (content including but not limited to: abeke reuniting with shane, uraza and shane's complex feelings towards one another, abeke forming closer relationships with some of the redcloaks, more of the sadreans establishing trade and communication with the topside of erdas, abeke and shane visiting niri in oceanus and hearing her ominous predictions that disaster is approaching, tasha coming into her own as the queen of stetriol, and the puzzle of where gerathon has slipped off to now that her human partner, raisha, is dead.) it would fill some plot holes, such as the new state of erdas after the defeat of the wyrm and the relative normalcy of abeke and uraza's bond in heart of the land.
i wish uraza's feelings and trauma from being infected were explored, but the authors didn't seem too keen on it. maybe i can do her justice if i give her and abeke their own special edition?
i would include conor, meilin and rollan's perspectives during this time -- with troubled conor visiting his ordinary family and reilin traveling in zhong -- but i really want to have a focus on abeke. she was truly the main character of the burning tide -- dare i say the main character of the whole arc? -- and with everything she's gone through in the last two books, she deserves some more analysis. that, and she's my favourite character. just like, idk, let her have a vacation!
