Larry asked K.D. Edwards:

I must wonder if anyone else found it odd that Rune only had a few sigils at the start of these books. I mean he brings it up often. “They’ll be tied to bloodlines,” I guessed. “Some sigils aren’t tied to a single user; they’re tied to a family. Like Addam’s platinum discs. If you defeated Addam, you couldn’t take his sigils by conquest, since they belong to the Crusader Throne.” Why so few sigils?

K.D. Edwards What a good question. I think there comes a point where a family -- or a bloodline, or a ruler -- is so thoroughly defeated that the ownership bond comes apart. I don't think anyone could have taken Sun family sigils from Rune -- but I absolutely think anyone could have taken Sun family sigils from anyone after the elder Lord Sun was defeated and destroyed, his resources plundered, his closest vassals killed, his estate turned into a toxic haunted site. I think one of Rune's biggest challenges in becoming an Arcana isn't the actual title -- it's rehabilitating his seat of power, and renewing his family's magical legacy to the point where it's truly a legacy again.

And if any of this contradicts things I wrote about, I plead what I always plead: wild magic. It must be wild magic.

KD

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