Rhaus 5

New Rhaus the Conqueror, even if it's seeming very academic at this point:

-Chapter 1 - Darkness Triumphant!
-Chapter 2 - Help Wanted
-Chapter 3 - Dashing Prince Percival
-Chapter 4 - Mommy!
-Chapter 5 - First Times

Not naming characters is too much of a pain. I'd intended to just give guards numbers and leave it at that, but it's just too annoying. Grk and Yir only got names for that reason. I don't know if they'll ever come back again or not, if they do they'll just be inserted into scenes that would otherwise have generic guards.

In the outline I didn't introduce Hala until later, but throwing her into one of the flashbacks seemed simplier than introducing her later on and just saying that people have known her all along. So yeah, if you're getting tired of more characters then there's no salvation here, but I swear that there's a story being built here, I'm (generally) not just throwing out characters for no reason!

I'd aimed to get chapter 6 out by the end of this month, but I spent way too long editing chapter 5 (I finished "writing" it on August 31st), so it's looking doubtful.