Well, that is my fourth book done on Royalroad. Now I have to find a way to pad the buffer chapter out a bit, so here goes. William's storyline was written in advance of Relma and Sahshirs. His character was envisioned first, while Relma and Sahshir were possible supporting protagonists. Sahshir's rather grim approach to life is the antithesis of his original characterization. He was originally supposed to be a hyperactive, justice-obsessed blood knight.
His role was to charge in enthusiastically without regard to consequence. However, that characterization did not fit in. And since Sahshir was always envisioned as Middle Eastern, it fits even less as time went on. Calisha's legendary rivalry with Harlenor was far too strong to justify it.
Eventually, Felix was envisioned instead. Felix's main idea was to be a controlled and competent foil to William. Someone who seemed like he could get out of anything. And someone who called William on his failings. Sahshir, meanwhile, was eventually reimagined into his present state. Doing so gave me a chance to write a story within Calisha. As for Relma, she wasn't even originally going to be a perspective character. Relma wasn't even really envisioned as a character. The basic concept was to have a perspective flip of the standard Chosen One narrative. One where character shows up and asks a lot of questions, and is awarded their special destiny.
This would have been from William's perspective. The whole idea was to.highlight the flaws in the trope. However, I concluded that the Chosen One would actually have to be a character. And a fairly important character at that, with a network of characters of their own. This is what led me to conceive of the character of Relma. A sort of pro-active Chosen One, actively pursuing her destiny.
In retrospect, I am very glad I moved away from the original concept. In any case, the next storyline will be called Gods of Samrasa. Our next storyline will be a bit of a divergence from the standard plot. It will take place in the land of Tarasif, where different Gods reign, at a time well before the present day. The story will focus on the fortunes of a noble House of Tarasif, the Husafa.