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Elijah: Black Crow

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Now posting on Amazon Vella, the sequel to White Buffalo: Tales of a Warrior-Prophet.

Here is the introduction to Elijah: Black Crow -

"This is the sequel to White Buffalo: Tales of a Warrior-Prophet. Elijah, White Buffalo's apprentice, continues to preserve civilization from evil's assaults. But he doesn't feel that his apprenticeship has been completed, so he assumes that White Buffalo survived the final battle and seeks out his assistance. Will his own hopes and dreams end up betraying him in the end?"
Tales of a Warrior-Prophet has gone Live on Amazon KDP Vella! I'm very excited to offer the first three chapters for free. Please comment, review and rate, and of course Follow to receive more episodes. Two hundred free tokens may be available for purchases. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/episode/B09YQQYMKH

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Here is the link to the first episode of White Buffalo: Tales of a Warrior-Prophet. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09YQVY79Y.

The total cost of the book after it is completely posted, chapter by chapter, will be in the $7.00 - $7.50 range. It is 177 pages long according to Google docx, and contains something like 73,845 words.

It's not full of moral ambiguity. There's excitement, adventure, and interesting moral and psychological backdrops.

The psychological of Elijah.


Elijah's D&D alignment is neutral/neutral.

The sequel, entitled Elijah: Black Crow, takes the story to a deeper psychological level. Elijah has Dependent Personality Disorder which he "medicates" by writing biographies. This profession enables him feed vicariously off of the lives of those he writes about. Elijah hasn't been diagnosed with any mental disorders; that's just the author's take on the personality he created. Nor does the author (me) have a dependent personality.

During the first book, Elijah acquired a taste for a different way of living: one that is full of adventure. He suffered greatly during the story. But when life went back to normal after the end of the adventure, he found normalcy to be unsatisfying. So he convinced himself that White Buffalo, his old partner in adventure and spiritual brother, was still alive. So he went in search of him.

There are good reasons for Elijah to believe White Buffalo is actually still alive after the final battle. It's not just some impossible, magical idea that he came up with to ease the emotional pain.

Also, toward the end of the first book, Elijah accidentally swallowed something that looked like a little black bird during the battle. But it seemed to come to nothing so he forgot about it. As much as White Buffalo tried to build Elijah, his apprentice, in confidence and wisdom, it doesn't seem to have taken. Because involuntarily swallowing that little bird might come to have disastrous consequences.

The problem is, Elijah has a serious psychological disorder that causes him to ignore good advice. However, he does seem willing to follow bad advice as long as it enables him to follow mindlessly the person giving the advice. He tells himself that his job is just to take notes for the biography and not get involved. But he manages to get involved anyway because of his personality disorder.

Samyaza, the villain of the story, intends to take advantage of Elijah's personality disorder. Elijah is more powerful than Enoch (White Buffalo's other name), but he doesn't know it and barely shows any ability except at the end. (That sounds like the First Chrons - but believe me, I didn't intend for Elijah to have any kind of power. It just happened as the story grew.) Elijah is also far more malleable than White Buffalo. When Samyaza speaks to the three of them, she intends her words to manipulate Elijah for the two reasons mentioned above.

In the sequel, Elijah is now aware that he has powers. But since he's in the Neutral/Neutral alignment, these powers can go toward furthering either good or evil. He would rather do good because he doesn't want to bear any negative consequences of doing evil (such as going to prison). His deep psychological issues have the ability to push him toward evil if outer circumstances force the issue. His childhood trauma is still active within him, but only on a deep level where it influences his decisions from a place that's long been buried in his psyche. As Elijah: Black Crow progresses, Elijah engages in more and more evil acts. At first they are seemingly "harmless." But they grow from the level of pranks and magic acts to causing serious harm to people. Perhaps he will either have a reckoning or will see the evil that has grown inside.

Although White Buffalo is good at mind-reading, he's not as good as Samyaza who can read deeply into the psyche. This is perhaps because White Buffalo is constrained by the forces of Good to avoid possible evil, while Samyaza has no such constraints.

White Buffalo's D&D alignment is Lawful-Neutral. This means that while he's in favor of a lawful society, he is amoral, ambiguous. He can move toward either the ethical or the unethical. He will sincerely praise the Lord with one hand, and with the other engage in all kinds of immoral, addictive behaviors. He doesn't see the contradiction in himself, and he never will.

Samyaza's D&D alignment is Chaotic-Evil. She's the pure archetype of evil. Her goals are simple, unambiguous, and set in stone for eternity. But from her point-of-view, none of the evil is intentional; it's just part of her nature, and it can't be changed.

The main hero and villain of White Buffalo: Tales of a Warrior-Prophet are unchangeable archetypes.

Roy is another member of the triad of heroes in White Buffalo: Tales of a Warrior-Prophet. His D&D alignment is unambiguously Lawful-Good. He was a skilled chemist, until an explosion in a chemistry lab cut his career short. Roy was placed in a medically-induced coma, because of the pain from acid burns, for two weeks. He is now blind in his right eye and has a disfigured face. But after two weeks in a coma, he found that he had acquired certain psychic powers. Those powers, along with his MacGuyver-like science capabilities, render him a valuable member of White Buffalo's team.

I can't say that the other characters were developed sufficiently to give them D&D alignment types. The evidence drawn to determine their types, at any rate, would be anecdotal and sketchy. Rahatakatelcus would, I suppose, be Neutral-Good. He is neutral in his political stance because he's fascinated by group behavior - specifically, how individuals are more inhibited on their own than they are in groups. He's Good because he likes to do good deeds for others, particularly for his cult leaders and others in the cult.

Any questions?
Tales of a Warrior-Prophet has gone Live on Amazon KDP Vella! I'm very excited to offer the first three chapters for free. Please comment, review and rate, and of course Follow to receive more episodes. Two hundred free tokens may be available for purchases. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/episode/B09YQQYMKH

Read my Whachichun Tatanka (White Buffalo) Blog: https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/8175040473578337186
FB: https://www.facebook.com/WhiteBuffalo.W ... unTatanka/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/white_buffalo
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