COUNTDOWN TO ROGUE WAVE IN SPAIN

Three weeks left until the release of Waterfire Saga 2, Rogue Wave (Olas Salvajes) in Spain. The book is mostly Neela-centric, with the life of the party getting tangled up in bureaucratic hell, then locked up in her bedroom by overprotective parents who think she has gone insane (from bad to worse), then performing a great escape to trick a couple of guard dragons away from her talisman (We count on you, Neel!)... So nearly no Astrid, but Neels getting into scrapes and becoming more and more serious.

Neela locked up in her room, looking at a dragon from the window...

Aside from the fact that the fortress community of Tsarno has got a university (changing headcanon of Tsarno from typical outpost to something like Ingolstadt...). At last the typical hinterland/provincial university, like in so many other real-life realms (Oxbridge, Leipzig, Uppsala, Ingolstadt itself...)!

And the story of Orfeo (yes, like THAT Orpheus), Astrid's ancestor. SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't read the novel!!!
So this dashing and good-natured healer fell in love and married happily. What was her name...? Euri something...? No, it was Alma. Which means "soul", conveniently.
Anyway... All was well. But one day, his wife, the light of his life, died.
So Orfeo was crushed by her loss, and even went insane (I mean, I know Lady Tremaine, Maria Theresa, Mary Eleanor, Archibald Craven, Robert Baratheon, anyone else left brokenhearted by the death of their respective partners...). And he made a decision that changed the destiny of all the worlds.
So, did he descend to the underworld to parley with its rulers...?
NO.
Orfeo tried to resurrect his beloved Alma, in spite of what others had to say against it. Like Frankenstein.
Obviously, she came back wrong...
And this was Orfeo's start of darkness.

So now it's three weeks of waiting for Rogue Wave to hit Spain!!!