Happy New Year!
Editing on Book Two, Mages Unbound, continues apace, and I’ve begun sketching out Book Three. In addition to epigraphs from Mira’s textbook, I’m including a new set of them in Book Two! These will be written by Thomas’ blood-son, Jason, whom you’ll meet briefly in this book.
I modeled the title of Jason’s book after the influential history, The Origins of the Second World War, which caused much fervor in the 1960s. When first published, the WWII revisionist history was quite controversial, with some historians accusing the author of cherry-picking facts to fit his thesis. Many reviewers criticized his down-playing of Germany’s aggression. I decided that Jason de Atlantic would be such a provocateur, writing a relativist history of the Fifth Mage War. Since Titania says to Cordelia in Sirens Unbound: “Parts of the legend are true. Parts are not. History is written by the victors, after all,” I thought it would be fun to include excerpts from a Fifth Mage War history that was at least somewhat sympathetic to the losers.
Don’t worry, the epigraphs won’t reveal who wins the war. But the mere fact that the book exists is a spoiler: the war will end, and the Earth will indeed survive :)
Here’s one of my epigraph outtakes so you get a sense of them:
Since the Fifth Mage War, humans have banned the nonconsensual use of mind magick as a war crime. The Fifth Mage War might well have remained a regional or intra-species conflict, but for the mind magick spells cast by combatants on both sides prior to the declaration of war.
– The Origins of the Fifth Mage War, by Jason de Atlantic, p. 75.
I modeled the title of Jason’s book after the influential history, The Origins of the Second World War, which caused much fervor in the 1960s. When first published, the WWII revisionist history was quite controversial, with some historians accusing the author of cherry-picking facts to fit his thesis. Many reviewers criticized his down-playing of Germany’s aggression. I decided that Jason de Atlantic would be such a provocateur, writing a relativist history of the Fifth Mage War. Since Titania says to Cordelia in Sirens Unbound: “Parts of the legend are true. Parts are not. History is written by the victors, after all,” I thought it would be fun to include excerpts from a Fifth Mage War history that was at least somewhat sympathetic to the losers.
Don’t worry, the epigraphs won’t reveal who wins the war. But the mere fact that the book exists is a spoiler: the war will end, and the Earth will indeed survive :)
Here’s one of my epigraph outtakes so you get a sense of them:
Since the Fifth Mage War, humans have banned the nonconsensual use of mind magick as a war crime. The Fifth Mage War might well have remained a regional or intra-species conflict, but for the mind magick spells cast by combatants on both sides prior to the declaration of war.
– The Origins of the Fifth Mage War, by Jason de Atlantic, p. 75.
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