Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

There might not be as much to say about these two as I’d hoped, which might be apparent since I put them together.  Both of them were added to Quest of the Brokenhearted once I decided to make it focus entirely on Lacarsis.  They serve simple purposes, which I wanted to expand, but I don’t know if I succeeded.  Rayne had the role of ‘sidekick’ and emotional connection, so these two couldn’t get in there.  Hyde was never supposed to be there in the first place, but Roland was intended to be a secondary connection.  So, where did they come from and did I go wrong?

Let’s start with the human, who readers of Beginning of a Hero might remember running into.  Roland Gauntlier was a fellow classmate of Luke Callindor and Kira Grasdon, which means he’s a proud graduate of Hamilton Military Academy.  He was a very minor…