Yep, having a passion for a particular topic doesn't necessarily mean that the readers would be interested in it as well.
For me, the whole Halabor-cycle is about the world-building part. Since I chose a really existing medieval town as a model (Yvoire in France), I had a solid basis on which to build the rest. Then I chose Cornish names for the Old Folk, so that they would have shared roots. Then I did an ungodly amount of research how many - and what sort of - craftsmen a town of that size would have needed, how those craftsmen worked in the Middle Ages and so on. Then I did just as much research on medieval life in general. And finally, I began to figure out the relations among a thousand or so characters, to draw family trees, set their individual ages... that sort of thing.
It's great fun. The finished parts are posted to the Otherworlds board (http://s4.invisionfree.com/Otherworlds/index.php?act=idx), in case you are interested. Scroll down the main page, and all this trivia is under the forum "The Halabor Game". It's unlikely that there will ever be a game, I'm afraid, but I store there these details if someone wants to find out more about Lord Orchald's town.
Oh, and by the way, thanks for the review! It made my whole day. :))
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Date: 2007-06-09 11:55 am (UTC)For me, the whole Halabor-cycle is about the world-building part. Since I chose a really existing medieval town as a model (Yvoire in France), I had a solid basis on which to build the rest. Then I chose Cornish names for the Old Folk, so that they would have shared roots. Then I did an ungodly amount of research how many - and what sort of - craftsmen a town of that size would have needed, how those craftsmen worked in the Middle Ages and so on. Then I did just as much research on medieval life in general. And finally, I began to figure out the relations among a thousand or so characters, to draw family trees, set their individual ages... that sort of thing.
It's great fun. The finished parts are posted to the Otherworlds board (http://s4.invisionfree.com/Otherworlds/index.php?act=idx), in case you are interested. Scroll down the main page, and all this trivia is under the forum "The Halabor Game". It's unlikely that there will ever be a game, I'm afraid, but I store there these details if someone wants to find out more about Lord Orchald's town.
Oh, and by the way, thanks for the review! It made my whole day. :))