James Islington

But certainly, things change along the way.

But it's pretty much on track with where I thought it was going to go.

Well, I mean, the way I wrote Strength of the Few, normally like in Leucanius, which was multiple points of view, I did just write that, you know, sequentially.

In Strength of the Few, I plotted out everything as I wanted it to be, but I actually wrote those storylines separately.

So I did Rez and then I did Leukem and then I did Overtium.

That really helped me, you know, because you're starting with a foundation of the vis that you had in Will of the Many.

But that really helped me go, okay, this is my goal for this vis.

And this is, you know, where I want him to go, but also what he has to go through and all that sort of stuff.

And doing that, and in different worlds as well, to try and get the world's feeling right.

distinct from one another um so uh yeah that was that was really helpful that was something I hadn't done before so it was uh an interesting challenge I guess reintegrating and making sure it all worked together uh but yeah I think it worked out yeah timeline wise that must have been a

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that was important.

That was really important to me because I kind of went, okay, if I'm splitting off into these three different worlds, I can't have them feel too disconnected from one another because this is still one story and this is still, you know, I've got, again, I've got a very clear idea of the story I'm trying to tell.

So it was important that

they did feel, uh, yeah, connected in some way.

Rome is very hierarchical.

Rome is historically very hierarchical.

And I decided after Licanius that I wanted to base my next series on something that would be distinctive for people.

And so I was looking at just general historical cultures and so on.