Been a while since I've updated anyone, so here's the short version:
Over the summer, I found a lot of my old notes and quick writes. I was reading through them when it dawned on me that all of them were able to co-exist in the same world. As a result, a great deal of background has changed for all of the stories I was planning on doing, including Firstborn.
There has been a lot of reorganization in that story, and now it will be the first book of a planned 5 book series, each one concentrating on a different aspect of the same world. The final chapter will tie them all together in a 'final act' that will resolve all four of the previous stories.
This required a bit of rework of some of the ideas I'd already been using in Firstborn, but it also made the path forward in the story much clearer and easier to write. Not everything will make sense yet - nor should it - but in time, assuming I keep at this, they all will.
If you haven't looked at Firstborn in a while, I invite you to return to it and see what's changed, what hasn't, and what those all might mean for a young woman trying her best in a brutal world of sword, magic, and tradition.