Interesting development! I need to go pick up Wrath and finish the story soon...
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 16, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Nick Andrews wrote: > >> BIG SPOILER SPACE for Empire Series... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The one thing about that I didn't like was the Great Ones being no >> longer considered outside the law. Sure, it had to happen for their >> society to move forward (as well as many other things, as Pug noted to >> Hocho about stagnation of art, etc.), but that doesn't mean I have to >> like it. Of course, the respect/fear was so ingrained into Tsurani >> society that a Great One could pretty much do anything they wished by >> reputation of the black robes, let alone actual power. >> >> That series would make a great mini series for tv, as long as it was a >> paid channel so there could be all of the story told with violence, >> sex, the usual that would be stripped out of a made-for-tv lame show. >> Look at the crappy results of most adaptations of Stephen King's >> works. >> >> I am behind, having only read up through Into A Dark Realm (but I did >> read Rides A Dread Legion on the Kindle just to try it), but am >> catching up. I really like the whole Dasati culture. Where did that >> come from? And the sudden reappearance of Macros, while not a >> complete surprise, was a great twist. I have always wanted to read >> more about him, but realized it might take away form the Legend of the >> Black Sorcerer too much. >> > > > The Dasati were the result of two things: since college whenever we talked > about the riftwars, the third one was always "the really nasty one," without > really knowing why. When I actually had to write the damn things I realized > I needed a nastier opponent than the Tsurani or the Saaur and in a way > nastier than the demons (as the Demonwar actually was a war among the demons > more than a demonic invasion of Midkemia), so I decided to see how far out I > could get. I started with cats, in a way. When a male cat encounters a > litter of kittens not his own, he will kill them--this is true from tigers > down to house cats--which accomplishes two things. The mother cat > immediately goes into heat and the offspring of a more dominant male replace > the killed kittens. So, I said, "What kind of society could exist that kills > its own young?" I thought of the Spartans, but in the end that society > failed miserably, and it was really just a very militaristic city state with > a small population among other city states with small populations, not a many > worlds spanning empire. So I said, "let's take a seriously honor bound > militaristic race and warp them because of evil magic . . . " And so the > Dasati were born. I like them a lot and was very happy with how they turned > out. As a character Valko was a nice one to evolve. > > Best, R.E.F. > > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
