Lyra is the primary protagonist, and the bulk of the story is told from her perspective.
The fun thing about RuneMaster is that I created the characters clear back when I was a teenager, and I was young enough that Lyra was a blatant self-insert. That meant that when I decided to re-imagine and rewrite the story, her character needed to be built from the ground up.
At the beginning of the novel, Lyra is 18-years-old, her father has been dead for two months, and she works as a dressmaker’s assistant. Socially she’s an outcast with no friends, and as a result she suffers from anxiety and insecurity, but she learns fast and is very meticulous. She also hates fire.
This is perhaps a bit of an odd quirk, but for this novel I decided that none of the main characters are going to be given last names. In fact, I’m contemplating having one of the main characters in the sequel to this novel not even have a name at all. I guess I’m feeling avant garde like that.
By Autumn Rain 