The latest chapter still hadn't managed to elbow its way past Shenhe, so I figured I might as well write up these explanatory notes first.
Although this chapter was called "Albion," it was really more about explaining some of my personal worldbuilding choices.
First, let's talk about the protagonist.
Sovell Pendragon.
His name had a simple origin: the English word "silver," which was also where this book's title-The Legend of Silver-came from.
But back in the fifth century, silver only had its Germanic root, "silubrą," meaning "shining."
I did manage to reconcile that in a chapter I wrote a few days ago.
Still, as you can probably tell, I write without an outline.
Whenever a setting detail pops into my head, I write it down, then gradually work out how to make it fit later.
Fortunately, I've managed to reconcile the vast majority of those details so far.
Let me start with the thinking behind Sovell's character design.
In the earliest version, he was Vortigern's biological son, but after thinking it over, I decided that wouldn't work.
The protagonist and Artoria were the sole male and female leads. If he really were Vortigern's biological son, there was no getting past Shenhe: they would be too closely related, making it incest.
So I changed him to a child Vortigern had found and taken in.
Still talking about the earliest version here.
Wind and the white dragon weren't connected. Wind was simply his Magecraft attribute, while the white dragon was the source of Sovell's bloodline.
The only connection between the two was probably that undergoing dragonification through the latter could strengthen the former.
Then, as I kept writing, I realized the protagonist couldn't be weak, and although the white dragon was a Divine Beast-class member of the Dragon Kind, that still wasn't