Extended Character Insight - The Twins

Analea and Aelana. Wuh, these two. Right. There is not much to talk about actually. I needed something to give Uklag the knowledge about immortality. An ancient tome? Where the heck would he get that? From his mistresses library? Nah, she would never leave that out in the open. I could have went that route, there are always ways to break things into fitting the narrative, but I didn’t feel like that was it. Next thought was a teacher, but that had the problem of social structure.

Finally I arrived at demons. Of course, he summons a Fiend or other powerful demon that tells him this and guides him on his story. But Uklag hates being guided. He is a narcissist, he will draw his own path. Demons sounds good though. And this was an erotic story, right? Make it a succubus, two for double the fun. Thus the twins were born.

Everything about these two was made up on the spot from there on. I just knew I wanted succubae. At first they were described as very black and white but I didn’t feel that was particularly sexy (and I really love redheads) so I changed Aelana up a bit. I told that before but Analea was just some gibberish I wrote down to make the incantation sound demonic. Used it as a name and mirrored it. Worked out weirdly well.

I ignored the question why two succubae would have arcane knowledge of that magnitude until much later in the story. When the opportunity presented itself I made something up that sounded good. Keep in mind that at the start I really didn’t think that this story would become this long. Things were much more shallow at the start. A very easy example for that is Illusion magic which actually DOESN’T FUCKING EXIST. Yes, you read that right, in one of the earliest chapters is a massive fuck up. What exists is the ability to make other people see things, which is ever so slightly different. I have since been insured however that demon magic works differently and if I were to finally fix that mistake it wouldn’t be a problem. Illusion and Alteration are interchangeable in this instance.

For their outside description I pretty much kept to the guidelines provided by the ‘Creatures of magic’ Chapter. Horned? Check. Grey/Purple skin? Feeling Grey today, so check. Tails? Check. Wings? Check. Wait no that is World of Warcraft. Fiends have wings. Uncheck. Tattoo like patterns? Check.

Throw in some ideal woman transformation nonsense and the guidelines have been followed.

The whole pact thing for permanent summoning was once again made up on the spot. I probably shouldn’t have done that, it created more headache than necessary. Although the scene at breakfast (Chapter 14) wouldn’t exist in that case. Which would be a shame because I really like that scene.

To put things simple: The twins were characters were I rolled two things together. One, the information about immortality and two a constant sexual partner. Well, two partners in this case. I am happy about how they turned out, although their characters are rather bland. Well, not everything needs to be main character material.

That was the extended insight for the twins, i hope you liked it. If you have any further questions please hit me up.