It has been a long time since I posted here. But once again I’m taking up the novel and pushing it to one final version. I am gong to try and sell it, but if that doesn’t work I am going to publish it myself.
So Stand by.
It is coming at last.
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The Assassination of William Lamb, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1829 was one of the pivotal moments in British History. Lamb was a younger son of Lord Edgemont, a brilliant man with enormous natural intelligence and potential. Not considered eligible or likely to inherit he family titles, he was educated at Eton, Cambridge, and Glasgow where he studied under the Whig professor John Millar, where he excelled in literature, drama, and religion. The death of his older brother in 1805 made him heir to the family name and fortune, altering forever his personal and professional life. As a young lord, he married Caroline Ponsonby, notorious for her affair with Lord Byron. Caroline died in 1828 while legally separated from Lamb, while her husband served as Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Lambs death was enmeshed in scandal and sedition. An ardent public disciple of the eighteenth-century Whig icon Charles James Fox, Lamb subscribed to political beliefs in the primacy of Parliament, religious toleration, limited monarchy, the right to private property, and civil liberty. These beliefs placed him in an ideal position to advocate for Catholic emancipation. Though his advocacy was a contributing factor, his affair with Lady Branden of Dublin and close friendship with Daniel O’Connell is often listed as the primary contributing factors in his murder. His close friendship with Daniel O’Connell, leader of the Catholic Association who initiated widespread agitation throughout Ireland and even openly advocated the possibility of revolution, put Lamb in a precarious position between Irish Lord Lieutenant and the British government. He was particularly involved in advocating for the Catholic Emancipation, a law that was intended to allow Catholics to serve in Parliament.
When Lamb was found dead from a bullet wound in his head after a public row with Lord Branden, it was widely believed that he was killed by then Lord Branden in a fit of jealous rage. Investigation by the newly founded Scotland Yard brought to light an argument between Lamb and his friend, Daniel O’Connell. Though a public advocate in religious tolerance, it was discovered that Lamb held private conservative notions in an aristocratic oligarchy rather than democracy, was skeptical about man’s ability to improve his condition through government action. These conservative ideas inspired him to oppose, covertly, the Catholic Emancipation act that was at the time moving through Parliament under Wellington. The spectacular arrest of Daniel O’Connell for the assassination of William Lamb drove Catholic Ireland into full rebellion that Spread across England and the British Empire. The British government, faced with rebellion and murder, reacted with the eight anti-Catholic Ordnances, and the appointment of the Eight Lords Inquisitor of England in 1829 to ferret out Papist sedition.
The Anti-Catholic ordinances of 1829, and the rebellion in Ireland focused power in the Lords Inquisitor, making them the most powerful single group in England by 1842 when the Catholic Rebellion was brought to an official end.
Though Red Tears is complete, I am making a final edit that will take the novel from its pure fantasy background and put it formally alternate British history, taking place in 1893 in Victorian London. This requires some enormous changes to the background. I am going to post some of this background material here to show the way I’ve altered British History.
Asking me to describe myself is an exercise in duplicity. How many of us, really, are dispasionate observers of ourselves. Most humans are too self conscious, too conscioulsy critical, and too gentle with themselves. To ask for a self assesment is to ask for a lie. Your request knowing that I will, to be the best of my conscious efforts, provide an honest assessment, but below the level of consciousness I remain duplicitous and prone to both purposful and subconscious error.
Name – Cartophyllus L’Necromant
Gender – Male
Race – Outremish – Ghaesa
Age / Birthdate / Birthplace – 48 years of age / 17th of January in the of his parents home in Mallow.
Manner of Speaking – I am an educated man, you insufferable dolt.
Kyrial Najir is one of the two protagonists in Red Tears, a frantasy murder mystery. The novel is written in the first person point of view. Each of the protagonists will tell the story in alternating chapters in their unique voices.
Name – Kyrial Najir
Gender -Female
Race – Mixed Outremish/Ghaesa
Age/Birth Date/Birth Place – 26 Years 5th of Novembre in the Attic of the Kafe Deep Inn on Jemaca Road, Bitter Breach District, Graystaff
Manner of Speaking – You’ll know my voice when ya hear it. Contractions don’t bother me at all, and I drop the last sound of would like speakin’ and Knowin’. But don’t go thinkin’ that the way I sound’s got anythin’ to do with my thinkin’. I can ran read an write as well as any clerk in the Mother Church, and my knowledge of the streets is deeper than a banker’s pockets.
Role or Purpose – Protagonist
Archetype – Persephone (Maiden & Troubled Teen)
Cares
Fears
Motivations
As seen through other peoples eyes
Assets
Flaws
Villainous Side
Background – I came into this life in the attic of the Kafe Deep, conceived on the wrong side of the blanket by the Inn keeper, Myrgran Kafe, and a young bar wench, Yrris. I grew up in that place, and would be there to this day my father hadn’t taken it into his mind to Marry. I was about 7, I guess, when I left because Myrgran’s new wife didn’t want any of the my fathers women or by blows commin’ between her and the ownership of the inn. I’m still in good terms with my da, who I see around Bitter Breech on occasion, though she wouldn’t consider asking Myrgran for anything. I have better twenty half brothers and sisters, between my mother’s four and my father’s sixteen our so.
This page will cover Red Tears, a fantasy mystery novel.