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@Blue Tiger: I tried to make a good summary but after writing two pages on-the-fly just to explain the setting, I've decided to try a different approach. If people wants to know more, just poke me with whatever sharp object you find lying around.
So basically, depending on how much information you knew when the events occurred, it's either the story of a savior or of a hero turned bad. As I said in a previous post, the hero suffer from memories losses and couldn't remember past events, so his parents trained him to write them down in a journal (which is also the book IRL). For him, it's a reflex (and he continued writing in his journal during all his life even if his memory problem was gone), for his parents, it was a convenient way to make him behave in a coherent way and to have a small peak inside his "alien" mind (after all, he was an half-dragon raised by a human mother (real) and father (adoptive)).
Since it's a journal, the style is a bit unorthodox because when that little 8 years old (human equivalence) half-dragon writes the events, it's through the eyes of a 8 years old. So it may confuse the reader a bit or some things may confuse the character but are obvious to the reader. So at some point in the middle of the book, I hope to make people will flipped back to the first page just to reaffirm that it's still the same character.
Basically, the people holding this book, hold his life. The story began with a very simplistic character that will do anything to please others and face the many challenges of life (of course, in a sword and sorcery setting, life tends to be a lot more interesting). At the same time, the world is recovering [again it's a long story as why the population was on the border of extinction and then manages become civilized once more (ie. with villages, growing crops, trading... event if the overall population remains small] but divisions arise, conflicts erupt up to a point that no one would need the disastrous calamities that plagued the world to reduce it to ashes once more. Without going into the details, there was a war that threatened to push both camps toward annihilation. While this conflict rebalanced the world, the hero's story continue; love, death, fanaticism, traveling planes, lot of treasons... Ah, good memories. In a way, the story is never really over and continue to tangles a web of events. If I manage to finish this book, I know that one small part of the story will be much more detailed and told by one of his apprentice... But this is a story for another time, I suppose.
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Yes, i have done so.
