![]() ![]() Is Brothers Of The Wind one as well, or are there other genres that either describe it better or are at work in this story as well? The other Osten Ard novels were epic fantasy tales. I also love the study of history in general, especially tracing the patterns of the past that affect us in the present, and this (the downfall of Ineluki) is a past event that ripples through the entire history and “modern” world of Osten Ard. (But readers don’t have to know the history to enjoy the tale.) This book is set a thousand years in the past because that’s when these events happened (within the world of the books) and that’s been established in previous stories. Tolkien’s worldbuilding was a big part of what drew me into fantasy fiction, I’ve always tried to create a believable setting for my books, which includes a cohesive history. I was going to make a long short story of it, but for various reasons decided it should be even a bit longer than that, and when I agreed to write two short novels to accompany the current series, it seemed an obvious (and for me, exciting) choice.Īnd is there a reason why Brothers Of The Wind is set a thousand years before The Dragonbone Chair - which is the first book in the Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn series - as opposed to a hundred years or ten thousand? It’s a story I’ve wanted to write for years. When in relation to writing the other Osten Ard novels did you come up with the idea for Brothers Of The Wind, and specifically, for it to be a prequel set so far in the past? Within the world of Osten Ard, it’s a famous historical tragedy that almost everyone knows about, but I’m telling the actual story for the first time. It’s a foundational story, detailing the events that lead to the eventual corruption of Ineluki, later known as the Storm King, who will become the antagonist in Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn series (my first series). Basically, it’s like High Medieval Europe if most of the folktales - ancient fairies, haunted forests, monsters - were true.Īnd then what is Brothers Of The Wind about, and how does it connect to the other novels set in Osten Ard, both narratively and chronologically?īrothers Of The Wind takes place about a thousand years before most of the other Osten Ard material I’ve written. This was intentional, because the farther from those places the human protagonists move, the less familiar the world becomes, and the “human” way of looking at things begins to seem limited. The human kingdoms are similar to, say, 14th century Europe. To start, what is Osten Ard like? Is it like where Conan The Barbarian lives, is it like Middle-earth, suburban New Jersey…what? Salvatore has Corona, so too does fantasy writer Tad Williams have a realm to call his own: Osten Ard, the fictional land where he’s set such fantasy novels as The Heart Of What Was Lost, the Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn saga, and now Brothers Of The Wind ( hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), a prequel set a thousand years before the first Osten Ard novel, 1988’s The Dragonbone Chair.
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