Need to combine these three ideas into a single plot and build from there! [HELP WANTED AND NEEDED]

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Project bloodline is going to be a two book series only! I have three ideas to be combined together and work from there.

Here are the ideas that I am combining into one:

  1. A young healer ends up murdering their mentor.

  2. An organization of mages looking for a skilled doctor and healer to save the founder of the organization.

  3. A misunderstanding leads to a tragic web of lies.

How can I turn this into a two book series?
What are your thoughts on the ideas?

Thoughts and feelings?

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Got anything to add? I am thinking on how to combine them into one entire plot.

I do have a name for the character and her name is Jorlaina A. Roanhowe.

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You just need a complete “thought” for each book. For instance, I expect my current wip to be a two book series:

In book 1, the royal family is murdered and the king’s youngest brother takes the throne, becoming a tyrant and executing his political enemies. By the end of the book, it’s revealed that the prior king’s teenage son survived the assassination, and is the legitimate heir to the throne.

In book 2, he masses an army and declares war on his uncle to retake the throne. Technically I could put all of that in one book. Likewise, Tolkein could’ve put all three LoTR books into one volume too. But that one book would weigh a ton! (>‿◠):v:

They sound fine to me! (*＾-‘) 乃

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Would you understand a bit if I told you Jorlaina is the “villain protagonist” of this story?

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Oooh, villain protagonists are always interesting! Is this a sequel to Project Succession, or just another book in the same universe?

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Another book in the same universe.

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Are one and two something that you can have cause and effect for? IE the healer murder’s their mentor and then answers the call for the doctor for the founder as a way to escape justice for the crime?

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Yes.

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u just gotta reorder those a little:

  • an organization needs a healer; sends for the mentor (probably sends for all the other advanced healers too but that’s not important rn)
  • the young healer murders the mentor before the messengers arrive
  • when the messengers arrive she is mistaken for the healer they’re supposed to retrieve (her mentor) and she lies that she is her mentor so they will take her away before her crime is discovered. she must keep up this lie (at least until she has made herself invaluable or found a different escape plan), or be killed for murdercrimes!

edit: that is only one book worth of plot though, imo. well, like the first arc of a book.

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I love this!

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I am surprised nobody asked about the project’s title, honestly. LOL!

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