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Hey yall! I need a little help with STORMWEAVER for those interested taking part!
🕑 Added 2025-11-19 16:01:36 +0000 UTCHey everyone! This is a weird post for me since I've never done anything like this.
TLDR: As a part of organizing and giving myself better tools to work on this series, I'd like to know what questions/threads/plots do you guys eventually want answers to (that aren't listed below)?
As most of you know Wraithmarked has taken more and more of my time over the years as the company grows. 2026 is a big year for us (we just announced our ERAGON boxset, for example), so that doesn't look like it's changing anytime soon.
However, that has also come at a cost to my ability to produce in the WARFORMED universe, STORMWEAVER in particular, right now.
Now, before anyone gets worried, this is not me saying that I'm stepping away from STORMWEAVER. On the contrary, I'm looking for help getting some footholds in place so that I feel more secure and productive putting the time in.
I'm confident in my ability to bring a story together, given enough time. Book 3, I think, is going to shape up strongly with editing. However, its length is resulting in a lot of strings I'm leaving dangling, and (like the roster I shared the other day) I want to do a better job of tracking the dangling story bits to make sure they get addressed at some point either in this book or following ones.
So in short, I have a question for you:
What questions/threads/plots do you guys eventually want answers to?
I know this is very atypical for an author to ask, but being 1) an extreme pantser/discovery, 2) working 60hrs a week on my day job, and 3) writing in a world much more expansive than anything I've done before, I want to make sure I give myself ever advantage to do things right. So I'm reaching out to you guys to help me make a list.
There are some obvious ones, which I will list here below in no particular order. If there are things NOT on this list that you'd like to see explored, though, comment below and I'll add the ones I think need to eventually be closed off over the course of the next couple days!
Thanks in advance to those who participate! Talk soon!
PRIMARY PLOT
The Archons/the war
the Laurent's/Carmen's fears
Viv's brain
Shido's super-development
Shido's growing fame
Firesong's growing fame
Valera's backstory/interaction with the Archons
SECONDARY PLOT
Kamiya's sponsorship
Rei's family relationship
Sarah/Rei's relationship
consequences of Sarah leaving Annapolis?
TERTIARY PLOT
Logan's backstory/sister
Viv's backstory/parents
Catcher's backstory/famous mom
Chancery's backstory
Jasper's backstory
Lennon/Dice's relationship & story
Valera/Maddison's relationship & story
Comments
Michael Williams
I have read both books and now catching up in patreon. Love it. I would say the most interesting thing for me would be the system and inter system tournaments. How strong better trained are the other pinnacle schools in sol for example. And of course the next upgrades for Rei and the team!
ndogo58@yahoo.com
How does Sarah's transfer to Galen's affect her qualifications for Globals? As number one in her class at Annapolis she must have been highly ranked. How about her squad? The one she left and will she be integrated into one at Galen? Maybe take over Siderov's! When will Logan get a boost? Would like to know more about Lennon's life. We get glimpses like from the guy who was kicked off his team and that he has not yet accepted sponsership. Will Lennon and Dice get boosts from spending time with Rei? I definitely want to keep learning more about if Rei can influence who and what boosts people get. Considering the war they are headed to, is it more who Shido considers will be of support to Rei in the war?
Michelle Williams
Donβt rush 15-20 books / volumesβ¦ why notπ€
GFuel_ Duey
I am more excited for anything involving Rei and his family, especially his confrontation with his parents. I'm also looking forward to his and his sisters relationship. Other than that, anything involving Firestone in general.
Dee
Gimme any and all of the above offerings, please and thank you π
Matt
I've been really enjoying the story. My main concern is actually scope creep on the story. Each book seems to be less and less in story time due to more and more being included without further pushing previous plot, other than Rei's and his team's improvement. The glimpses "behind the scenes" with the high command's concern about the war, why the MIND talks to Dent (and why Dent's device also talks!) are not fleshed out enough. I don't know why these events have an impact. There is a disconnect, for me as the reader, between the foreshadowed losing war and the focus on the intersystem championship. The in story glimpses suggest that Rei is needed for the war effort very soon, yet all the chapter quotes and story focus suggest that he's going to compete in the arena with his team. Its like the story points that are there to justify pushing Rei so fast are not urgent in the telling of the story. That urgency is also why if feels weird to spend less time in world for each book.
Tyler Jansen
The one that's always bugged me is, if the MIND CAN assign a CAD with an S-rank anything why doesn't it make better CADs for everyone? Why are the ranks so low generally? What limits are there that make them what they are?
K.Impossible
Hmmm... everything you listed Bryce: + Reid and Aria's cute and clumsy romance +Siderov's hold over 2nd years +More Hiroto and Rei + Of course more fighting. I'm not particularly creative, but a lot of the other comments were good. Actually, whatever you do will be awesome... I hope you just keep having fun with it. You have crafted such a wonderful and characters that are so easy to connect with and cheer for. Great villains, heros and even the side characters are relatable. Just do you, Bryce... I truly hope you can keep it going though! Fighting
Tsornin
I'd like to see if Shido is going to start impacting other CADs of people not on Firesong. He's been training with Lennon a lot, Shido impacts anyone around Rei. Seeing if the government is going to interfere in a more direct way with training, and I'm excited for when we get to intersystems. I'd like to see Siderov get his just desserts too.
