Thank you! I love fairy tales, too. Snow White is a lovely one, but I don’t think I’ve heard it with Rose Red. I will have to learn more about that version of the story.
I will never get tired of people fangirling this story. I’ve been fangirling it for 5 years since I first started writing it, and it’s so lovely to have others, like yourself, excited about it as well!
I absolutely adore that you love the characters. Thank you for saying so! You will get to know them all much better as the story progresses. Right now, they’ve barely been introduced—Collin more than the others, of course—but there will be much more depth to them all as things play out.
Thank you for the sweet comment and for fangirling this story with me!
I was elated to find out we’re meeting the Ink and Intrigue MC’s kingdom and family, and looking forward to see about how it’ll all tie with MC’s fate. Also, still exited over finally meeting the Ga’vaan small kids and do not care how late they’ll make MC would love to see more high jinks and spend time with them
For the RO’s everyone is very personable but since its only at the beginning there’s not much to go, I guess most intriguing right now would be Dorian, what are the chances for MC to become a warrior-mage at the end as well? A bit on the nose?
Oh yay! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the tie-in with Ink and Intrigue. And how nice to hear that you enjoyed the younglings’ adventures in the tower. Little Mavin is a bit lost without his mother, but Janessa looks after him well (even if he does sometimes escape her watchful eye), and he has the love of most of his siblings.
This honestly hadn’t even occurred to me. I’ll make a note to offer a journey to Ra’zai at the end if the RO is Dorian, but the MC has another type of personal journey to take that is quite different from those of the Kitherin, and yet just as transformative.
Thank you for playing Ink and Intrigue and for your lovely comment! I hope you’ll enjoy the depth of world building, characters, and adventure that will unfold as The Eternal Library story is told.
In general, sur la lune is a great starting point for fairy tales research. They’ve been one of my favorites for a very long time. Snow White and Rose Red is an altogether different story from Snow White, and is from a different story family altogether. The name is just a coincidence.
The story is so wonderful, especially because of the love and kindness of both sisters for and to each other and towards other characters. And for the happy ending.
And yes, Schneeweißchen (sister to Red-Rose) is a different character then Schneewittchen, even when they have the same name in the English translation.
No, both names would have the same meaning (Schnee for Snow and wittchen/weißchen would be the name for White) only that Sneewittken is the low German translation. The high German translation would be Schneeweißchen, but this name had been used for another and unrelated character to Schneewittchen. Schneewittchen is the hybrid form of Sneewittken and Schneeweißchen.
that’s why some English speaking people think of Snow-White in Snow-White and Snow-White and Red-Rose of the same character
well, it ended badly for the evil dwarf xD and not every fairy tale in the Grimm stories ends badly for all the characters xD
and it could be that some stories were changed slightly through the centuries so they wouldn’t scare children too much, like in the version of the Grimm Brothers Snow-White and the seven dwarves, the queen dies when she was forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes at the wedding party of Snow-White and her prince. Unlike to Disney’s version when the queen dies by falling off a cliff.
I do feel a little sad about seemingly being locked into blue, green or purple eyes. It feels constant that fantasy portrays dark eyes as boring or plain or lacking in magic the way that light eyes do.
I think the eyes are symbolic in the way that we are different to other characters in the story, that we are a part of the shunned Tian family. that we have fae blood in us, that is shunned and ‘forbidden’ in the kingdom. so, you are special in that way xD
This. Every other one of my games allows choices for brown eyes and other more normal eye colors, but in this story the character stands out because of their eyes. There’s nothing lacking at all in brown eyes. I think they’re beautiful. It’s just this particular story where the eyes make the character stand out that I’ve restricted that choice to vivid colors.
Sure and I do get that but choices aren’t always made in a vacuum, you know? When the choice to lock “vivid” colors to typically eurocentric eye colors like blue and green is made, it’s made in conjunction with all the decades of stories we’ve had that indicate that magic and otherworldliness is tied to light eyes, light hair, light skin, etc.
It’s all a part of the way we discuss it and all. Blue and green eyes are always referred to as the color of the sea, the color of the sky, the forest, the night, the moss, etc. Even in the description post of the romances we see that–Collin’s forest green eyes, Angelina’s sky blue ones. Marienna and Sevitas are simply just brown-eyed.
I hear you, and I try my best with brown eyes to describe them in ways that are as romantic and intriguing as the others. In Ink and Intrigue, several characters have brown eyes with copper or amber light in them which reflects their magic.
I do wonder how you’d prefer brown eyes to be described, other than “deep brown eyes,” or “brown eyes infused with amber,” both of which I’ve used in other stories. Perhaps I haven’t used them in this one yet, but it’s early. There seem to be less poetic options available for descriptions of brown eyes, but if you have suggestions I’m open to them.
What about just using gemstone colours instead? There are brown gems and semi-precious stones and it would allow more variation than the current two blues, a purple and a green. (If given the option, I would have chosen orange.)
Little Mavin is a bit lost without his mother, but Janessa looks after him well (even if he does sometimes escape her watchful eye), and he has the love of most of his siblings.
I’ll make a note to offer a journey to Ra’zai at the end if the RO is Dorian, but the MC has another type of personal journey to take that is quite different from those of the Kitherin, and yet just as transformative. 
