I’ve been moving (slowly) towards getting back into developing characters for the worlds I write in. The primary world I write in is not my own. I write a great deal of material for Shadowrun and that world is constantly in flux. It is not the only world I write in. The rest are all of my creation. I’ve been thinking about one fantasy world in particular. It is a world that is moving further away from the time of blades and towards the engines of steampunk.
Today I want to write out a character from that unusual land. I tend to write female characters as my secondary characters (dang near primarily it seems). So I am going to challenge myself with making a male secondary character.
His name is Ulf and he is a ‘Shield’ which is an organization of security workers who answer not to the crown but to the private baron who owns them. The Shields presently work in service of the book–which I am imagining as a way to describe the religious order. Ulf has not decided what he wants his life to be but his service to the Shields is non negotiable. He feels the organization is the only way he can possibly balance his need for violence and his need to feel in control of something.
There is more about him, but I am out of time for now.