Author's Word
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
As always, thanks so much to all for reading, commenting, or following! Additional thanks go out again to Stormasius, AceKH, TheDaydreamer25, and Moonlit Mortal for all their help and support as well as providing the cast. I really hope I did your OC's justice. I also know this was a little different compared to the normal conventions and style of a typical Power Rangers series. To be very honest, this series was heavily inspired by the short lived Saban show Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog. It combined Power Ranger elements, Epic Fantasy, and Celtic folklore and I always wanted to take that a step further with a threat like the fey.
The traditional Celtic legends of Faerie people have always fascinated me because they are a lot like us humans, but also very fantastical and different. Faeries are also great characters because of their contradictory natures. They're often beautiful but also very dangerous and mysterious. They can be kind and helpful at times, but at other times they can be cruel and spiteful. They're unpredictable and prone to acting on their whims, yet they have their own complex rules for their society. Hopefully some of those elements were able to come across in an entertaining way.
The themes of Natural Balance and Change also factored in heavily with this series. We had four main heroes with very different personalities that corresponded to their respective seasons. By learning to work together and accept each other, they were a more balanced team and made something more whole, just as four seasons complete a year. Also like the changing seasons of a year, each hero went about personal changes and grew to become more mature, confident, or caring. Coincidentally, the idea of four knights to start the story also seemed fitting, especially because there are four leaves on a lucky clover and four provinces of Ireland. For any sharp eyed people, maybe you also recognized the fun little way that the four reflected the old relationships of their respective heritage countries: Connor/Ireland, Laura/England, Quinton/Scotland, and Noelle/France.
As always, feel free to ask any questions or bring up issues with the series as I'm always willing to discuss things with you readers. Looking ahead, I'll be taking a bit of a break. Nova Squadron will still be going on as a long term project and I'll be devoting much more attention to that during the year now. I'm sure the long suffering followers of that story will be glad to hear that. :)
For those who are fans of my PR: Vanguard series, I'm also putting together a sequel series which is tentatively set to begin later this year. It's also going to be starring some of the children of the original heroes. If that sounds interesting, feel free to sound off and let me know too. I'll be posting the prologue to that story within the next day so stay tuned. Until then, take care and hope to see you all for the next one!