John Smith
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(view spoiler)[Hello Mr.Dalglish i recently finished the legacy of the watcher and I loved Thren’s inclusion but I’m a little worried about it.?This and soul keepers marks two times where a beloved character explicitly was confirmed dead getting retroactively made not dead and that to me can make individual character seem a lot less personal and emotional. Though to be fair the way Threnn went out was anti-climactic but y’know (hide spoiler)]
David Dalglish
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(view spoiler)[It's kind of you to list it as only "two" characters I've done that for! But dead characters returning is...kind of a thing I've done a lot, especially in a world with necromancers and warring gods. Think undead Qurrah, for example. Even dead characters show up, like ghostly Darius in the later Half-Orcs.
That said, I do know what you mean, and just know I am keenly aware of the risk. Tesmarie in the Keepers was a purely selfish decision, plus I felt like it gave a final note to the trilogy far more befitting what I first wanted to do with the books. As for Thren, I talked about this extensively in the note at the end. I just thought I did an absolutely terrible job with his death way back when, before I ever knew who his character was. So in that regard, I felt like I was correcting a mistake.
Moving forward, I do not think it'll be a common occurrence. I'm overall getting better at planning ahead and knowing where my stories are going, and my character deaths are far less compulsive on my part. I don't want people to read a character death and think I'm just going to overturn it later, and to be fair, I have a *lot* of characters who have died who stayed dead, even some incredibly popular ones. (hide spoiler)]
That said, I do know what you mean, and just know I am keenly aware of the risk. Tesmarie in the Keepers was a purely selfish decision, plus I felt like it gave a final note to the trilogy far more befitting what I first wanted to do with the books. As for Thren, I talked about this extensively in the note at the end. I just thought I did an absolutely terrible job with his death way back when, before I ever knew who his character was. So in that regard, I felt like I was correcting a mistake.
Moving forward, I do not think it'll be a common occurrence. I'm overall getting better at planning ahead and knowing where my stories are going, and my character deaths are far less compulsive on my part. I don't want people to read a character death and think I'm just going to overturn it later, and to be fair, I have a *lot* of characters who have died who stayed dead, even some incredibly popular ones. (hide spoiler)]
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