Bronte-Marie Wesson

Yeah.

Some of the characters kind of do their own thing.

I find they wander off, but Riantone and Luminara were always key to everything that was going to happen.

The interesting thing is when you have that weird magnetism with a person where you keep finding yourselves crossing back into one another's lives, regardless of whether or not that is something you ask for, I think that's a really fascinating dynamic.

And I also think watching them mature is one of the most rewarding parts of the three books because they do go from being young, in love, dumb idiots to fully grown adults by book three.

Yeah, which is fantastic as a reader to experience that.

Yeah, you want these characters to stop making the same mistakes all over again.

My favourite character that I've written – well, it's interesting because it's the favourite character that I've written but the actual characterisation is so informed by my wife, is Galahadur Malrein, who is –

the Prime Knight of Xanthos, who is probably as close as you will get to an actual villain in the course of this, but not to quote Marvel, but is like burdened by, is it glorious purpose or something?

He's burdened by this like glorious sense of duty.

And you get him, who's so much fun on the page in book two,

He's an absolute highlight.

And then you get the love of my life, Maeve McLear, who is the political spider of a woman who is one of the only elves you will meet in this entire trilogy.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

And she is...

my little mean sapphic love because she's a lesbian and she's so mean and vicious and I love her and I think let's get more like I never understood the resistance to having mean queer people in fiction it's always like no you can't write a queer villain that's not politically correct I'm like have you met a queer person they're some of the meanest people I've ever met

Get into it.

I can't wait to read that.

Yeah.