Elddim

Elddim is Book 2 in my Angel series; the first one is called Ezam. For those of you with an eye for word play, you'll see that these names are anagrams (letters mixed up to form new words). The last in the trilogy will be called Erath - another anagram. Can you crack the code? I like word plays and names in particular are really important in stories, but particularly so in fantasy. I have an unpublished novel called Avatar (yes, I wrote this well before the more famous version)where I called the patriarchal figure Abram. It just came to me and I thought it was close enough to Abraham, a famous biblical leader, for people to make the connection. When I finally looked it up, I found that Abram was the original version of the name. I tend to trust that the zeitgeist will give me the correct names of characters. In The Kira Chronicles, Tierken (pronounced as in tear-ing cloth)just came to me too. I'm still not sure I like it, but it's his name. Kira started off as Kiera, and I got sick of typing the extra letter, so I made her into Kira. I always had the owl - the mira kiraon - (those words just came to me) and I was about 3 chpts in when I realised the connection between Kira and Kiraon and knew her name was really Kiraon. I also knew it was somehow significant in the whole story. Discoveries like this are what makes fantasy fabulous to write.