The Outliney bits
Prologue Fairy tale-esque telling of how the Realm of the Four came to be. Already have this mostly written soo moving on.
Chapter 1(POVs Flyn and Valin) Introductions to Flyn and Tamsen/Valin (who at this point will just be known as Valin). Flyn is inducted into the Keeper's Own which is a pretty awesome thing. Good times are had and loving family stuff, life is good ETC. Valin is inducted unwillingly into the Watcher's Court. High contrast to Flyn's ceremony with somber feel, screaming etc. This is not a happy moment. Chapter closes with a droneish Valin receiving a secret mission.
Chapter 2 (POV Flyn) Flyn attends his first meeting as a full knight and is given the assignment of border patrol. The Keeper feels the Errant is being too quiet and sends Flyn and a small group of foot soldiers to a town bordering the area the Errant and his followers were banished to. Flyn says goodbye to his family, and the young knight goes with his group of seasoned foot soldiers to the town.
Chapter 2.2 The Ballad of the Sundering. While on the road one of the soldiers, who apparently moonlights as a bard shares his version of the events that happened 23 years ago. The song tells how the Errant (then named The Enforcer) felt the Four should be praised as gods, and when the others disagreed, he went about fashioning himself into a deity alone. He gathered his followers and marched to the Great Hall and demanded the other members of the Four bow to him, showing his power. In the end the other three joined their power together to banish the Errant and his followers to the Marshes.
Chapter Three (POV Flyn) The group reaches the town and everything appears almost eerily normal. Flyn feels like the villagers are hiding something, but nothing seems amiss at all. The town does seem to resent the soldiers presence, but they remain painfully polite. While investigating the town between patrols Flyn finds a man in the village's jail who introduces himself as Tamsen. The man seems frantic and explains that the real villagers are all dead, and the people outside are all agents of the Errant. The mayor assures Flyn that Tamsen is the town drunk and has a few screws loose, but Flyn isn't so sure. He continues to dig, until one night he find his men dead and is knocked out.
Chapter Four In Talida a young noble woman named Geryon is having a conversation with her parents about joining the Watcher's Court. They are disapproving of this choice, wishing her to follow more scholarly pursuits instead (IE become a young woman of the court marry a knight etc.) Geryon is persistent however, and the discussion quickly becomes a full blown fight, and the young woman flees the house, beaten and disowned, unknowingly in the full sights of her younger brother. She places her lot in with the Watcher's Court that night and vows never to return again. Lhocke, her younger brother, watches his sister go, greatly saddened by all the things that he witnessed that night. He worries, both for her and himself because he too wishes to stray from the path his parents have set for him.
Chapter Five
