Unintended Consequences

After writing about the question of death in fantasy last time I was here, I started thinking about deaths in my own work. Like who I’ve killed off and why. My first full-length fantasy was The Stone War, in which I more or less blew up my home town. Since my home town is New York City, there’s a fairly significant body count before my protagonist even makes it back into the city and starts trying to rebuild. Even once he gets back and starts to gather survivors together to try to keep the ci...