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Third Sunday! This week’s bonus entry is a character who ended up placing third in the available entries for “A,” behind Arradon and Angela.
Asper is an elf and one of the main characters of The Sanctum of the Sphere. Xe is slender and pale-skinned, and typically keeps xir head shaved. Asper is talented with a wide variety of weapons and possesses some magical talent as well, although xe prefers to only use it when necessary.
Asper is a fairly high-level member of the Noble Opposition and is the child of Overmorrow, who leads the Opposition group that appears in Sanctum.
My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives. You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.
Previously: The Nameless.
The Nameless is Brazel and Grond’s ship. Brazel is the pilot (the cockpit is sized for gnomes) and Grond copilots and operates the weapons systems through a remote chair installed in his quarters. The Nameless is only lightly armed, but is a fast and capable boat and has decent shields for something its size.
The Malevolence, also known as the Noble Opposition or simply the Mals, is the closest thing to an opposing army the Benevolence has to worry about. The group is only loosely organized, composed mostly of dwarves and those few elves who have escaped the Benevolence’s influence, and while some operate as a rebel military others are simply pirates. The easiest way to tell the difference between the two is to see if they are offended by being called “Mals”; the more militant members of the Noble Opposition find the term pejorative while the more piratical Malevolence are likely to embrace it. Despite their name, the Malevolence are not “bad guys” as such; the term was a natural side effect of fighting against a group called the Benevolence.
Lady Remember is very likely the single most powerful and influential being to appear in The Benevolence Archives so far. She appears outwardly human, with caramel-colored skin and long white hair, but stories of her have been circulating for far longer than would be possible for someone with a typical human’s lifespan. Remember is a legendary figure in the criminal underground, both as a broker of information and a trader of influence. She first appears in the Archives in the Vol. 1 story called Remember, and plays a major role in the events of The Sanctum of the Sphere as well.
K’Shorr is an ogre and a pivotal figure in Grond’s past, a story revealed in The Sanctum of the Sphere. If anyone could be said to have raised Grond, K’Shorr is probably that person, although the two had far from a loving relationship. K’Shorr is a warrior and a thug, and has spent a good portion of his life as hired muscle for the elf Barren, and trained Grond and several others in the martial skills that he needed to be successful when fighting for Barren in the pits.
Sat in a hot, stuffy, way-too-small room within punching distance of a guy with white power tattoos for an hour and fifteen minutes only to be ushered into the courtroom and told that the defendant in the case we were there for, a “high-level felony” that would likely have required a fairly lengthy trial, had just accepted a plea bargain. Thanks for your service! No more jury duty for two years! Go home!
Jelucan is the name of the planet that the two main characters from the Star Wars novel