On Uruz

Uruz' earliest incarnation can be traced back four or five years. At the time, I had an idea of a Half-Elf swordsman (named Lance, had to look through a sketchbook to find it) from a world where elves and humans did not coexist. The idea was that he was disliked by the people of the town where he lived (it would be a city-state surrounded mostly by wilderness) and eventually he would be framed for the murder a townsperson and banished to the northern mountains.
There he would meet a fox-child (some sort of human-fox hybrid imp) and get his help to find the person responsible for the murder of the townsperson. First they would go east, seeking help from the Elf Kingdom, but would be denied it. However, the elven princess (Marta) would sneak out to help them. Somewhere they were going to meet up with a thief.
The main villain would be an evil wizard who lived outside of the town and framed Lance for the murder. This was some attempt to keep him from the city so that he would not achieve his potential as Lance was the only person capable of stopping him. The climax of the story was to be when the wizard attacked the city using a gigantic stone golem.

I'll post his second incarnation either tomorrow or monday.

I've started writing 'Prometheus', a noveletta about a boy who washes up on an island where the natives speak english and believe that the island is the only land in the world.