Ooohhh I like the alliance idea! All the nasty baddies! Brilliant! :3 Also Orin, yes. He should be able to drive August crazy too, given he can see through his eye.
Yea I've just completely ruined a painting I've been working on for a couple months (by getting way too cocky), so I've put it away in disgust so hopefully my art teacher will have an idea next class. Boo. So. Mood ruined. :<
Also, I had a vague idea that's probably way too late in the game. Basically, that Narissa has August's little sister. My thought was that maybe the sister was already cursed with something horrible since early childhood, and Narissa initially got August to help her by promising to cure her. Only, Narissa kept asking him to do worse and worse things, until she started threatening the girl and August had no choice but to keep going. I just think that August's reasons otherwise for doing awful things are kinda flimsy for such an upstanding guy.