Rewrite

I've been mulling this whole story over and I finally realized what had been bothering me. The story moves so fast because the main characters, Narn, Erimbril and Galdacil come into the world pretty close to the power level/experience that they'll have at the end of Book 1. In other words there isn't a lot of growth for them as characters. That's because the character who is growing is Riulan. Ultimately really she makes a significantly more interesting main character and has significantly more growth. And she's of the world while the other three are merely patsies in it. As such I'm going to have to go back and fill some sections in and flip her from secondary to primary character. That gives a whole section for her learning to be added into between the first battle and when they leave. Narn and the rest are doing relatively boring stuff from their view point. From the Riulan viewpoint it would be a lot more interesting and I can play with her growth in power, which is obviously signficant.