Writing an epic story takes a lot of planning, and by epic I'm talking something that spans multiple novels, has scenes that take place all over the world in question (or even on multiple worlds, where applicable), and has more than one major event taking place at the same time.  Telling such a story requires many things, not the least of which are lots of main characters.

Most stories have just the one Point of View (POV), because that's all that's usually needed.  But for something epic, you're gonna need a number of POVs, which means establishing several characters ahead of time to do the job.  Why this need, you ask?  Take something like the Civil War, or World War II.  A whole lot of battle fronts and stuff going on all at once, and to make the reader feel for...

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