{"id":29819,"date":"2015-08-14T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29819"},"modified":"2015-08-09T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T05:38:12","slug":"worldbuilding-in-the-wall-of-night-series-the-medieval-european-setting-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/worldbuilding-in-the-wall-of-night-series-the-medieval-european-setting-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldbuilding In “The Wall Of Night” Series: The Medieval European Setting (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From time to time, questions come up about worldbuilding in The Wall Of Night <\/a>series and one of the perennial favourites is why I chose a setting that is reminiscent of medieval Western Europe.<\/p>\n

The answer is that I deliberately set out to write a book that was very \u2018classic epic\u2019 in its initial form, so that drove the Western European medieval-style setting, as did the mythological basis to the work which draws on the Greco-Roman, Norse, and Celtic traditions.<\/p>\n

Another reason for choosing \u201cclassic epic\u201d was not just because I love it, but because I wanted the focus of the books to be on the exploration of character, the world building, and telling a damn fine story (to the best of my humble abilities, at any rate.) I wanted to explore how the Derai, who believe themselves to be champions of good, are in fact divided by prejudice, suspicion, and fear.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to address the notion that it is what people actually do, rather than what they believe about themselves, that really makes for \u201cgood guys\u201d or \u201cbad guys\u201d \u2013 as well as how circumstances may have a bearing on that equation.<\/p>\n

I hoped that contrasting this exploration against the \u201cclassic epic\u201d setting would provide fresh insight into what at first appeared familiar. So I suppose I have been trying to take something that may appear familiar on the surface and then heed Emily Dickinson\u2019s exhortation to \u201ctell it slant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time, questions come up about worldbuilding in The Wall Of Night series and one of the perennial favourites is why I chose a setting that is reminiscent of medieval Western Europe. The answer is that I deliberately set out to write a book that was very \u2018classic epic\u2019 in its initial form, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-epicfantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29823,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819\/revisions\/29823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}