I’ve been light blogging the past few weeks because, even though I’m done with Messiah, I’m not done with Messiah. Even though the draft is finished (so no one needs to worry about me pulling a Robert Jordon) I’m still in the midst of going through and polishing off the edges of the draft. I’ll also have one last pass after Sheila at DAW gives me her two cents. I’ve seen the cover art, and I think it rocks. All-in-all, I’m rather happy with it. Especially since, when I began it, I wasn’t thinking of it as the capstone to the whole Moreau/Confederacy universe. Now I know that it is, I’m very happy I put Nickolai in there. To a certain extent, he may be the most important character in the entire series of ten books, since he’s a personification of nearly every theme I’ve been using since Forests of the Night. (In fact, you can think of Nick’s conflict with Adam in Apotheosis as a reflection of Nohar’s much smaller-scale conflict with Adam’s precursors in Forests.)
He gets a worthy send off.
