Bronte-Marie Wesson

Yeah, which for those who are hearing this at home and are like, oh, it's another fantasy world where women are shoved off to the side.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

I explain that in book two.

There are reasons.

Well, they discover their own power in different ways.

But like culturally in Logar, when you arrive at Logar, it is a relatively patriarchal society.

It is run by...

this group of men called the Hastra who were effectively community leaders who were voted in because, okay, cool, we're all from big clans who trust these people.

And have lots of money.

To hint at things in book two, that is not the way it has always been.

Yeah.

So the idea of women and their roles throughout history is only further expanded as we go along.

Nejla is Luminar's chosen family.

But she's also like kind of self-involved as well.

Like both of the sisters are quite self-involved in what they want to do.

And Nezha thinks that the best thing for Luminara is coming and joining nobility.

And Luminara instinctually has a self-preservation instinct that was given to her by her mother who was passed away that says absolutely do not do that.

Reanthron's the messiah, effectively.

He is their messiah.