After the death of her parents, Nadysha Ivanov has been crowned the vampiric queen of Cavae, ruled under their dictator Count Vladislaus Straud. But their nation holds darkness at its core, and it’s up to her daughter, S, to diminish this darkness once and for all.
Back when I started Simlit in 2018, I made a story called Lost Pride. I didn't write the story for very long before I ended up getting rid of it, coming back a year later to reboot it but hardly having enough planned to work on it as consistently as I wanted to. Although I struggled with the plans I was still building the world and characters out of the story for about a year and a half. At some point, I came up with a completely new plot and direction for the story which gave me the drive to reboot it once more (permanently this time). After a few months of working, I'm finally ready to publish it.
I can't promise extremely consistent uploads of the story (I've already got another story that's planned out way more plus real life is stressful enough), but I'll do my best not to publish as infrequently as I did last time
But back on topic, the prologue for the new Lost Pride is already up and can be read here:
There's also a chapter index
here that will be updated frequently.
Comments
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In addition, if you were aiming for the eastern European surnames (Russian and alike), then for females Ivanov should be Ivanova. I understand your reasoning for avoiding this detail, but it is there.
I very much like the setup for Strauds. Nice approach to establishing Cavae's history. Not sure about choice of titles - count and countess would be more appropriate IMO - but this is minor. The crowns do stand out significantly, though.
I must point out the sheer length of the prologue. While in no position to make requests, I will still ask you to consider making actual chapters half as long or even less. This prologues is a doorstopper.
Other than these gripes, this is an interesting setup and I am interested in learning more. Following
I'm glad to see you're enjoying the story so far and I very much appreciate your feedback. My comments on it:
As for the chapter length, I hadn't considered the length of the prologue being much of an issue, although I can definitely see why it is. I can't make any promises as to what my average chapter length will be as I have a lot of story to cover, but I'll be trying to keep the really long chapters on a low count. Nowhere near as long as this one unless I can't avoid it.
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As for the surname - all those suffixes can get really obnoxious, so I would completely understand why you would choose to keep it simple as "Ivanov". I apologize if I am getting annoying.
Regarding the chapter length - I understand and not asking anything of you. I just wanted to point out the potential issue. No offence intended :-)
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Check out my stories The Diversity Club and Lost Pride here on the forums!
In addition, the weight of Cavae politics felt very oppressive. Expectorations VS what-is-best. Pragmatism vs idealism.
I was rather surprised to see Nadysha perish and here I must bring one issue - the sheer length of the chapter. I could easily see it being separated into 2 or even 3. Not for me to judge, of course, but still.
Overall - I am rather interested in seeing what will happen next. Thank you so much for an update :-)
I'm gonna start this by apologizing it took me ten days to get to replying, been busy so I haven't gotten a chance to check in on the forums.
About the Cavae's politics, they definitely are very oppressive which, to put it vaguely, I'm sure will become very obvious as the story progresses, especially as S and Nikolai get older.
I'm happy to see the story is interesting you, though! I'll try to keep the story going sooner rather than later.
Just vibing...
Check out my stories The Diversity Club and Lost Pride here on the forums!
Just vibing...
Check out my stories The Diversity Club and Lost Pride here on the forums!