@c09f86d3 I'm no good at plots, but I have found that sometimes the development of the characters generates the plot.
Who wanted our victims dead? Cui bono, as that old windbag Cicero used to say ...
@c09f86d3 Thank you kindly for the offer (nobody else has), but I'm alright really. It's been two years since he's been the man I grew up with. I said goodbye a while ago.
Gwyn up Nupp might be too comic for the character you have in mind, but as typos go it was a good un. I'll be interested to see how the story turns out.
@c09f86d3 A point Sir Pterry was very keen on. Although I never liked his Elves; they were actively malicious, whereas to me the best stories about fae aren't that they are bad - or good; just at right-angles to our world, with ethics of their own, and not really interested in us at all. Much as I imagine extraterrestrials will be, should we ever meet any.
@c09f86d3 Since he is mentioned as both King of Annwn and of the Tylwyth Teg *and* one of Arthur's retinue in the same story, there's plenty of room for interpretation! One theory I read made him out to be the Welsh equivalent of Cu Chulainn ... I can't see the resemblance myself, but interesting nonetheless.
@c09f86d3 It does tend to be very rambly and confusing, mind. The same people (or people with the same name, it's hard to tell) crop up in very different roles, and the plots are often bizarre. I think the problem is that unlike Greek or Roman myths, which had Homer and Virgil and many others to shape the narratives, and Norse myth which was put in order by Snorri Sturlusson, nobody ever did that for Irish or Welsh myths. Or, Taliesin and his kin were all on the shrooms 😀
@c09f86d3 Send them when ready. Dad's estate was sorted out a long while ago, and anything left sis will be doing. And she will doubtless nag me to do my will (I keep forgetting).
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