What Makes for Thrilling Stories

The main character(s) have their own agenda, an agenda with another person, and an agenda with one or more groups. And yet as they try to pursue each of those agendas, they are 'called' to do something completely different than them all.

In the case of Liutras, perhaps he starts off learning to have his own agendas and things he likes and loves for awhile before discovering his 'higher calling.'


Idea: Mysterious enemies/rivals/what have you (not mindless ones, but cunning ones with character) called Medulas. Named so because they are 'close to the brain' behind everything.