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A Midsummer Night's Accident

Okay, it's random Krimson Traitor trivia time. I just got done hammering out a timeline for the story, to help me keep better track of things like character ages and whatnot (something I probably should have done before I actually started writing, but hey, better late than never).

Now, once I'd gotten done laying everything out ("Okay, well this character has to be this old when the main plot happens, and this other character has to be this old, and her mother has to be this old when she gave birth to her, and she has to be this much younger than this other character, and that other character has to be this old when this happens to him, etc. etc.") I ended up with a very interesting, entirely unintentional coincidence:

Nihil (the protagonist) was born in the same exact season that Azrahai (the main antagonist) had the prophetic dream about his own death in the Prologue.

It's so perfectly poetic, I almost wish I'd been smart enough to do it on purpose. But nope; total accident.

Oh, and the season was a summer, hence the Shakespeare reference in the title for this blog entry.