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O I L E R S Magician and entire serie in fact. Hi Ray, First of all, that book was an excellent read, thank you very much. I enjoyed all of it :) This one felt more like the original series than the most recent ones, and I for myself like this style better. To each his own :) Now I was wondering a few things. Basically, a lot of significant characters in the world from the past 30 books or so are dead, i.e Tomas, Pug, Dolgan, Macros, Miranda, Nakor, Jimmy the hand, Arutha, etc. From the point of view of your gaming days, which if I'm not mistaken, were occurring 200 years from now in Midkemia, were these characters mythical Legends already, or you created all of them from scratch as you went along the books? For example, Calis is still alive, as well as Magnus, did you have materials saying that these guys were sons of famous magician/warrior in the past? Secondly, I was reflecting on the fact that Martin Longbow's son is now on the throne. I remember at the end of Magician Martin was asking himself, "what if I make a better king than Lyam..?". On the light of what happened in family branches of the 3 brothers and the downfall of the ConDoin line, the question is, in your writer's eye, was Martin a better choice? Obviously historical questions like these are somewhat meaningless, but I always had the impression that you implied so, especially when Pug makes his comment about the downfall of the line starting with Borric (from Arutha). Lastly, I had the impression you introduced some "angel army" somewhere? I'm trying to remember what happened with them, especially when they were mentioned in ME at some point. Thanks again for an excellent read! PJ
