It's been difficult to find options to sneak away to write (family stuff), I leave all my stuff open on my computer and try to sneak away to work on stuff when I can, lol. Anyway, got most of the stuff figured out, right now it's just a matter of getting the time to edit everything together and get the images ready and the formatting and everything. 

As I'm thinking about my characters, I decided to make the Dark Acolyte not actually related to anyone in the Cult of Tiamat, but rather an orphan who was saved from the streets by a high-ranking member and became her apprentice, similar to a Sith arrangement. I want to have the option of him encountering a long-lost sibling at some point who may be able to pull him back some from the darkness, but I'm not gonna decide whether or not that happens until later. 

Also, I should note that when the ultimate climax of Volume I comes to an end, any of the student villains who publicly participated will probably get expelled from Qrowdell, but prior to the three year time jump, we can say they just began training with the Cult full time. And I'm sure there will be ample opportunity throughout for student who began regretting their dark path to reverse course, but I imagine anyone who plays a Dark Acolyte character intends on reveling in their evildoer ways XD XD XD.