Heh, the Dread Baron's tale is far from over. It does appear that he will be free soon enough after all.
At least he did better than the three cousins and Lord Silvermane, he defeated Roderick, Frederick and Henry single handedly, before being beaten down by a girl.
He will be around to act as a more battle hardened enemy, someone that simply is too strong for the three friends to defeat in battle so they will need to find other solutions. It wouldnt be very exiting if they could simply defeat every enemy with their sword.
I really like to make it a setting where the three friends need to deal with different enemies, where each enemy can give them a hard time in a different way, and there is also a rolemodel for them to admire, Cedric.
Although in all stories I might have conveniently kept Cedric from stealing the show, perhaps I should show it in a story sometimes what hes capable of?
On a related note, I opted this time to add a bit more dialogue to the story to help flesh out the characters a bit better. Was it easy to read? was it clear enough to which clicky the dialogue belonged to?
I'd love to hear feedback about such things so I can take that with me and focus on improving the storytelling further.