But to tell that story effectively, I realized I needed to show at least part of that past. The main characters are immortals with a deeply personal stake in their world, and even though the war is over, they find themselves in a deadly political battle to keep the alliance that defeated that empire from turning into an empire of its own. In the past of Witch King, a conquering genocidal empire has invaded a group of civilizations who had been living together in peace. Like The Cloud Roads, where Moon finds his people and the home he’s always been searching for, but that’s just the start of his problems. I’ve always liked stories that start after the classic happily-ever-after. What happens after the evil empire is defeated. When I started writing Witch King, I thought I was writing a story set in the aftermath of a multi-volume epic fantasy. But the secret is, you can write epic fantasy and science fiction at any length, using any structure you want. The typical image of an epic is a set of thick multi-volume novels.
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