The Arc of Conflict, Coda 1, Edda 21: Hanzo, the Dragon, the Sapphire-Eyed

The war is won; spring - a slippery thing - has come at last to Russia. The snows have melted, with only remnants left to clean away. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. Oasis is again at peace, with the Gods free to do largely as they will.

In the midst of all these great actions, of these large shifts of state, a single person can be very small, and difficult to find, no matter how urgently that person may need to be found.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Coda 1, Edda 21: Hanzo, the Dragon, the Sapphire-Eyed
solarbird and bzarcher

SPECIAL NOTE: This, finally, concludes The Arc of Conflict...
...and begins The Arc of Dominion.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.

that was a long time

Well.

The coda is posted. (See my previous post.) The Arc of Conflict is over, final total 132,428 words, across 30 months.

It's been a ... lot.

And it's gone very differently than we originally thought - though by the time I was working on that one (and bzarcher was mostly - and still is mostly - on hiatus) it was clear how far things had diverged, even if the ending remained the same.

A lot of Overwatch fandom have drifted away. Nothing gets the kind of traffic it used to, which is a shame from my standpoint. I've got a dedicated number of people reading, of course, but nothing like the numbers that we used to have, and I miss that.

Nothing to be done for it, of course. And I don't really know how you tell this story outside of this universe - at least, not without another novel written in front of everything else that comes first! - so if I want to keep telling it, I'll be staying here.

And really, I rather do, so... I guess I am!

Maybe Overwatch 2 will revive the fandom. I hope so. It'd be nice.

Until then, hey - another novel under the belt, eh?

Not bad, really. If I do say so for myself.