Thomas Walsh asked L.E. Modesitt Jr.:

I read your work from the beginning of the Saga of Recluse but became frustrated with the seeming lack of direction that the series had after 3-4 books. I've always been interested in revisiting the series but my frustration with reading the early disorganization of related stories without an explanation makes me hesitant. What do you say to draw back in early readers of the Recluse series who abandoned it?

L.E. Modesitt Jr. You seem to be looking for an overall plot arc that continues over 2,000 years. There isn't one... and couldn't be one that was in the faintest realistic. I am writing, if you will, the history of a fantasy world, with different cultures, over that time period. It's epic in scope, but it's anything but epic in its focus. I can only say that the Saga is character-centric, in that it's focus is on people and what happens to them, and not upon some grand and overwhelming question, except perhaps the evil created by extremism of any sort.

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