Alli
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In The Sharing Knife world do you know in your mind what happened in the past with the old sorcerers and absent gods? Is that something you worked out or is it an event/history that you only thought about superficially to give setting to the Dag and Fawn's world?
Lois McMaster Bujold
It was not worked out in detail, only in broad outline. So no, there is no notebook full of elaborate worldbuilding extant, but there are constraints -- the shape of the box into which anything considered must fit.
(There is no certainty on either the characters' parts or mine if there ever were real gods in this world, though there is certainly real magic power.)
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
It was not worked out in detail, only in broad outline. So no, there is no notebook full of elaborate worldbuilding extant, but there are constraints -- the shape of the box into which anything considered must fit.
(There is no certainty on either the characters' parts or mine if there ever were real gods in this world, though there is certainly real magic power.)
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
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Jane Bigelow
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love the character of Nikys, and I'd be happy to read of her again in whatever way Lois wants to do it. Characters do change, if the fiction is any good. I've liked some of Lois' books better than others, but they're all good. I admire her choice of a middle-aged woman as adventuring protagonist in Paladin of Souls. Could her weaving could be part of a story line for Nikys? I'm sure Lois has plenty of ideas already.
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