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.
