Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Cast of Arrow Child - A Quick Look

So for a while I've been looking at the cast of Arrow child. The major families represented include the Askers, the Alkaiels, and a few related members of the IRA. Now, what I want to really get into is a few new characters that are coming up oncoming parts.

The first group we're introduced to is the College Crew, basically Stephen, Emily and Petros. All of them are professors at Oxford in various departments with Petros and Stephen going both former teachers out of Athens. The thing about these three is they are basically the group that knows nothing. They are being tossed into this centuries long struggled between the Amazones and well, a few that don't like them.

The other group is the Alkaiels and the Askers. Two families who have for the past several decades intermarried and are fairly well aquainted with each other. Funny thing, one is Turkish the other is Greek. Usually this would create some friction especially with the matriarch of the Alkaiels being a Greek Cypriot, but nothing really matters.

The Askers are central to the main plot and a major part of the "Revelation" theme of Arrow Child.

So who is the Arrow Child? Well, whoever is reading the story can figure that out :)

The new characters I've written about are the girl who stood (named in the end of part 3), Lima Sweeney, Jimmy Boy and the mercenary's of Maura's sisters.

Maura is well, Maura is someone I love and I hate. She's a trafficker, a sort of Amazonian Irish Coyote. Both her and her band are former Nation fighters who went astray after their cell was nearly wiped out by the Turkish Military years ago. See for a few years, the Kurdish Paramilitary groups in Turkey had a few Amazones training with them. Maura's group as I will get to later was one of them!

A few more characters yet to show up. Tala and Qasim, both are in part 5 near the end I believe.

And then a few more of the Alkaiels! Oh, and of course mister Achilleus, the big bad (maybe) who speaks to Liam in Part 3!

So Spirits to You!