Bronte-Marie Wesson

Yeah.

Yeah, I still haven't pinned that one quite down the elevator.

For my first book, it was very easy.

This one's a bit too big and complex and broad.

No, it was definitely like fan fiction adjacent.

Like when me and my wife were originally playing around with the idea of this book, it was like, it's kind of how a bunch of our stuff starts.

With the first book, it was Skyrim because I take issue with Skyrim.

That's a whole different rant.

But for Legend of Zelda, it was like what if you wrote a bunch of these tropes but you played out the implications of them for adults in like a political fantasy because the Legend of Zelda has a bunch of interesting things to say, I think, but it doesn't quite know how to execute on them in an adult level and that's not what it's interested in.

It's interested in the fun and the fantasy of it all and the little kid going on this big adventure.

But then you have a bunch of other things and you're looking at the map and you're going...

really interested in this.

And I read a bunch of fan fiction and I went, a bunch of people are also interested in this.

And so, cool, let's cook up something that's kind of our own thing that takes all of this stuff we've been discussing for years and years and do something with it.

I will say I have this.

I know there's a lot of people who are going to go into this and there's going to want to be a lot of empathy for both sides because naturally we're at war.

But when I say two countries, I mean one empire and one country.

And that's like a fundamental difference for me.

How did I build the world?

I had Logar first.