Interestingly, one of the noblemen most important to the plot didn’t appear very often in the original draft. Telrii was a much more minor character in the first versions of the book. As you’ll see later, however, he has an important role to play.
Some of you who read the very early drafts of the book might remember the Mad Prince. This is a character my agent successfully convinced me to cut—I’ll talk about it more later on. However, the need for beefing up Telrii’s character came from the loss of the Mad Prince. Telrii now does most of what Eton used to do.
So, this addition of Telrii in the party scene was one of the more later revisions to the book. He showed up in draft eight or nine, and I’m glad to have him. He finally has a character—in the first drafts of the book, he was a non-entity. Spoken of occasionally, but really only in the book to show how much money Hrathen was willing to spend on overthrowing Arelon.
Here is some of the Mad Prince sections that got cut.
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