All my characters are related

Discussion in 'Character Development' started by King Arthur, Mar 6, 2016.

  1. Oscar Leigh

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    Are there literally thousands or is the not hyperbole purely in the every single? And does this include rando extras or just people or some significance?
     
  2. King Arthur

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    Thank God, in that case, that I said Godwin's gx2 grandfather had four brothers. Please... read.
     
  3. King Arthur

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    Literally thousands, including randoms and people dead but mentioned.
     
  4. plothog

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    Literally thousands of related nobles, yet not a single servant or peasant of unknown genealogy?

    Do all these thousands manage to have their relationship to someone actually mentioned? - I'd have thought with some randoms - we wouldn't particularly need to know one way or the other.
     
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    Unclear pronoun antecedent - the problem isn't all in the reader.
     
  6. King Arthur

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    Servants and peasants aren't important, I've only named a few and even then it's since someone in that family is famous today. Plenty of characters have unknown genealogies, but there are a lot of people.
     
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    BayView Huh. Interesting. Contributor

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    I'm confused by "plenty of characters have unknown genealogies" compared to "every single...character that appears in my novel is related to all the others in some way."
     
  8. King Arthur

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    Relation to main character in order of appearance in the first two chapters :

    1- Father
    2- None (none to anyone)
    3-Aunt
    4-Mother
    5-Sister
    6-None
    7-None
    8-None
    9-Father's cousin
    10-Father's cousin's wife
    11-Father's cousin's son
    12-Father's cousin n°2
    13-None
    14-None
    15-None
    16-None
    17-None
    18- 2nd cousin twice removed
    19- Mother's cousin's father-in-law
    20- Great-uncle
    21- None

    When in those days you have plenty of people with 10-12 children who are princes and princesses, and they each marry other princes and princesses (or kings), you quickly get related to everyone from what I can tell. A SINGLE man married a Saxon woman, linking every character related to that man to every Saxon related to that woman.
     
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    In that case, I don't think people will be put off by the fact that all of your characters are related to each other. - because they aren't.
     
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