Heidi Angell asked David Wiley:

What inspired A Merchant in Oria?

David Wiley A Merchant in Oria started as a picture prompt that springboarded into a collaborative project in 2012. Three other authors and myself formed what we deemed the "Fab Four" and we worked on projects together that we called the "Fab Four Fables". One of us would start a story based on the image prompt, then the next person would continue, then the third, and the fourth would bring that story to a close. A Merchant in Oria was the Fable that I started, and much of that early scene remains in tact still. As is common when authors continue a story, it went in directions that I hadn't expected and I enjoyed what they did with the beginning. Yet I always felt compelled to return and finish the story I had started with that prompt.

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