[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Thanks for the advice to both of you fine gentlemen, EC and TC_Dale. I know what I want to have happen in the next chapter, actually, at least generally speaking, but executing the writing of it is not happening at the moment. I'm thinking of having the relevant characters perhaps sing a song related to their homeland, but seeing as I don't have any sufficiently-locked in map-related details available to me at present, that may be part of my problem here. If I could get some free maps of sufficient enough quality done, whether by me or others, that would help a great deal, I'm quite sure.

I'd estimate Cirriddiqua/Slaabovia's total national territory to be about the size of Argentina in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, more or less, whether it is land-based territory or water-based territory, in fact, here. I can draw a little, but not very well, in many cases, unfortunately. I have at least a rough idea of what the landmasses might look like, but I haven't yet been able to permanently lock certain details down, except for CD's hometown of Lima in his home state/province being roughly centered on 30 degrees North Latitude and 46 degrees West Longitude.

Research is proving rather challenging at times trying to keep things sufficiently plausible in the story, with its main time period being in some version of the 16th Century AD, on an alternate Earth of some sort. Lord willing, I will eventually get this particular story done, I'm sure, but I still don't know just when that might be, and what the entire story will look like and read like here, when it's finally completed in its entirety.

If I can just get past chapter 17 of this story, that should hopefully allow me to shorten the length of each chapter considerably, until the penultimate chapter of the story in question. Simply because I'd then be in the third major part of the story, carrying out the denouement of it, of course. Although chapter 24 will potentially be a real challenge to do, because my narrator won't be able to be everywhere at once, of course, during the final battle in this story, for sure. I've been using only one narrator for the entire story in a strictly first-person point of view, which I normally do not do with my stories. So that has made it quite a bit more challenging for me while I've been working on this particular story here. Especially seeing as I can't currently peek into certain other characters' heads and see with their eyes here, et cetera, obviously.

This story is currently being narrated by a middle-aged man, and the next planned story will ideally be narrated primarily by his chief student of sorts, if you will. The third story will likely be told primarily by the future wife of the second story's narrator, which ought to be rather interesting and challenging to do here, for obvious reasons. And if there is a fourth story that comes along after volume three, it will likely be told primarily by the chief advisor to book two's main narrator. After that, I don't know who would likely be the primary narrator of each potential sequel that might be written yet, of course.

If I hadn't had to move frequently in the last 20-30 years, or perhaps or actually lost access to various related papers and/or computer files, for various reasons, I think I could very well have been already to book five or six by now, at the very least. But life sometimes doesn't go as expected or planned, you know, and you have to deal with whatever might come up from time to time, quite often, like it or not, for sure.

TC_Dale, you are most definitely more than welcome to drop by this thread at any time you might so choose to periodically give your thoughts here about certain graphics and other things, of course. I'd really not mind it at all, I think, and I'd certainly appreciate it if you did drop by and comment every so often, about various things mentioned in it, as well, for sure.

I have included baseball-related things in the story at least once or twice, by the way, as I've periodically been known to do with certain stories of mine, but they're still not necessarily a major plot element in this particular story. I don't know if you'll ever be able to read the entire story once done, just yet, of course, but I hope someday that you'll eventually be able to, Lord willing, within the next few years or so, if possible and all. CD out.