With my struggling to name things. there is a sorceress based on a friend who gave me some critical advice. so i named her as my main evil focus of my 4th book. Elisora. (bad guys get remembered) i also added her to the 1st book for a brief moment. gave her some back story and showing her abilities.
between 2nd and 3rd book she took over an unfinished castle tower. taking control of the people there, she exiled people, killed some, and took magic from them. now she is more powerful. keeping 2 dragons as guards. her blood can animate mud into full sized warriors, and also keep people alive with mud organs. the mud creatures she creates are called Veinores, (veins with ore) as the blood grows through the mud. they are hard to kill.

I guess I'll start on the rest of the character plots. this might give me ideas for the rest of the books.
I'm trying to avoid revenge stories too.

Officially now
472 individual characters
44 races
19 named places (Forests, plains, mountains, canyons, deserts)
66 characters killed so far
115 characters set to die in just 4th book.
another 40 in 5th book
20 main plot characters (Close friends)

Thank you to everyone suggesting names.
some names have been just great, especially strong sounding names. i can make some interesting warrior type characters from them. but some will die.
this evens out the woman to man ratio. i just had too many women characters in the series, then killed some of the males off. this left it with lots of women. so what should i do have 200 lesbians or bring some allied males into the mix.

A people who worship blood, fire and dark rock. they will be playing a big part in the 7th book. but i will introduce them in the 6th.

decided, 10 books it is.
I simply have enough ideas to do 10 in the series. instead of trying to cram them into 2 books, i'll expand out to 10.

Part of the 4th book, as i have resumed writing it.
these are a mixture of people joined together.
one is my son jacob, (Jocab)
and the other is my step grandson Mitchell (Mitnell)

Cold winds blow sideways sharp ice,
Cazzille keeps his coat spread to be nice,
Maraya smiles back at him, while Jocab looks at the ground,
“Recent steps.” He points while gazing around,
“I smell smoke.” Mitnell sniffs, walking further to see a hut,
Amelia smells the air too, making a gurgle happen in her gut,
Hungry and cold, she moves forwards first,
Driven by a need and a love for thirst,
Jocab touches her shoulder to take her from the phase,
As he too has not eaten for many days,
Maraya squints her eyes, having good vision at long sight,
Knowing they must enter, friendly or not to spend the night,
Seeing no movement or recent activity anywhere around the door,
Maraya and Cazzille move to a better position in order to see more,
Jocab goes the other way, trying to see through the window in the side,
Only seeing what is cooking, he makes a choice to go inside,
Cloaking himself in a shadow, not so easy against the snow,
Opening the door, he enters the hut, being silent and slow,
Nothing heard, nothing there, Jocab stays aware,
A door opens inside, giving the occupant a scare,
He falls back inside the toilet holding his chest,
Then starts to breathe, while not very impressed,
“Who are you?” the man asks as Jocab holds his blade,
“I am Jocab of the dark assassins.” He reveals as the shadows fade,
“Your just a boy.” The man sees and relaxes from his breath,
Jocab helps him up, “Oh I thought I was going to die.” The man thought of his death,
The others stand at the door, cold and shivering wanting to come in,
“Welcome, I am Clancy.” He bows, inviting them to a meal with a grin.

I've decided to swap book 5 and 6 plots around, i was going to make a big bug army awaken for 5th book, with blood sucking giant wasps and hardened army giant ants. then after this for 6th book there would be the battle with the dragon hunters.

So my change of mind is that the dragon hunters come sooner. this will merge with the Shareelz (Shark/eels) battle a little better. leaving a gap enough for a Summer weather to come around for the Arantnids and Warspads to awaken (the giant bugs) and battle the people who remain. for the first half of the 6th book it will be peaceful. I know books have drama drama action emotions and exciting sequences. but with my writing i think i can do it happy and peaceful.

1st book i did a bit of editing and added people to it that were not even thought of when i was writing the draft. then it explains more for the 4th book. but when I'm editing 2nd book. i think I'll do the same and add some people into it too. this is why i have kept the books unfinished so i can go back and change things in them. holding off on the publishing until i am completely happy with the whole story.

Ok, needed a comedy species. but ill probably turn it into the most serious species of all. they are called the Scorparoos. a race of jumping, big, poison tailed, boxing clawed crossbred scorpion/kangaroos that live in the East deserts. I will think up some more things for them later. but i think they would either look funny or look pretty kickass.