Meta-Review - Analysis and Thoughts

Two months, huh? Quite a beast to tackle here, thankfully most of it is dogshit and can be summed up nicely. The whole point of Inter-Arcs is to provide some grounded transition that probably should be just summed up in a chapter, rather than this drawn out slog I wrote.       To summarize how it works, we need to simply find the actual end point of the prior Arc, and where I intend to start the next one. That blank gap? X.5. For Arc 1, it ended on 1 January 1000, with a disconnected Epilogue in February.       But Vykan is contemporary, essentially 'now' in the topical sense. That's a 1025-year difference. 1.5 is essentially how Pruflas weathers the ages, how the world changes through epochs, and fleshing out a lot of the antagonist cast -- all while trying to avoid bloat.       I failed. Personally, I don't feel much is needed to be elaborated on, since 1.5 has little narrative weight, being more just character journeys and set pieces for future conflicts than meat proper. Maybe my perspective is too washed, though, but the Meta-Review kind of always was my thoughts - unfiltered.       There you go. Not deep. Not some genre-defining work. -       I'll update as needs, if needs. I don't feel the need.