It's so surprising what a re-evaluation of characters can teach you. I know Lex, Malcom and Accolon very well. They are characters I have worked with extensively over the past seven years or so. In the latest re-write of the Pazour story (on page 45 now!), I have had a chance to examine the three of them as children.And I learned something. Lex and Accolon may have been the two who fought the most, but Malcom (shown above) was the one who started all the fights, usually on purpose. He was that one kid who caused SO much trouble and NEVER got caught. I hated that kid when I was little! But I can't hate Malcom. That's hard to do. He was never obnoxious about it, never bragged or teased. Just added his own chaos to the order and stood back to observe. And in a broader sense, that's more the kind of person I would rather be than one of the brawlers (verbally, it's something of a gift, albeit a damaging one.) And in the end people always learned something when he messed with them. I think that's the Gorsedd part of him.
Malcom has been such a quiet character for so long. And now I come to discover he was just as involved and laughed just as hard. I just wasn't looking in the right places. It's good to hear his voice finally. He's always deserved more attention than I gave him.
