BEYOND FATE Character Spotlight: Elah the Goddess
BEYOND FATE introduces us to some new characters, and
while I don’t want to spoil anything for you, I did want to talk a little bit
about Adam and Eve’s daughter, the Goddess Elah.
Writing Elah was a huge challenge for me, because inside
the Fate of the Gods world, she’s the next level up in terms of power and
omniscience. Unlike Thor or Athena, she has her fingers in every pie, parts of
her (and Elohim’s) spirit spread throughout Creation, from the Host to the men
and women and children born and living every day. She has only to look and the
world is revealed through their eyes.
But that also makes her less human, and less
understandable. Thor is a god of the common man, with his goats and his drinking
and brawling, but Elah is something else altogether. In many ways, she IS
Creation, and it is only through her will that the world as Eve and Adam and
Thor know it is maintained. It’s a lot of responsibility, and for Elah, likely
a lonely position to be in – there are very few others who operate at her
level. And of those residing on earth, Bhagavan is likely the singular
exception. Which makes him, potentially, her most powerful enemy, too.
I settled for writing her as I would any other character –
a third person limited approach. But I couldn’t help but wonder how much more I
was missing. Is there a constant stream of information in the back of her mind?
How does she sort through it all, if so? Is it like Adam and Eve, where they
have to make a conscious choice to read the mind of a person near them, or does
she just see every thought, even the deepest darkest secrets, unless she makes
a conscious decision not to? How
disconcerting would that be to the people around her?
And I’m not the only one who wonders about the answers to
those questions or who worries about how much Elah knows, or might discover.
There are plenty of Fate of the Gods characters who are deeply concerned for
their privacy as well –
But you’ll have to read BEYOND FATE to find out how they
cope with the new and very powerful Goddess in their midst!
Amalia Dillin began as a Biology major before taking Latin and falling in love with old heroes and older gods. After that, she couldn't stop writing about them, with the occasional break for more contemporary subjects. Her short stories have been published by Daily Science Fiction and Birdville magazine, and she's also the author of the FATE OF THE GODS series and HONOR AMONG ORCS, the first book in the Orc Saga. Amalia lives in upstate New York with her husband, and dreams of the day when she will own goats--to pull her chariot through the sky, of course.
Learn more about Amalia at www.amaliadillin.com.
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