![]() ![]() The answers we received were often quite surprising! In this interview, we asked Williams about details of Empire of Grass, how his work on The Navigator’s Children is going, and asked for details about The Lady of the Woods, The Shadow of Things to Come, Brothers of the Sky, and The Veils of Heaven. Tad’s publisher, DAW Books, has recently released Empire of Grass, volume two of “The Last King” series. Ayaminu is located a stone's throw from the Pure, but no one in the city knows about the massive war party of Norns or the "other" mortals who showed up despite days/weeks of forewarning.Legendary Fantasy and Science Fiction author Tad Williams talks about Empire of Grass and several additional Osten Ard novelsĮ at Treacherous Paths are proud to bring readers another exclusive interview with storyteller Tad Williams, bestselling author of the “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn” and “The Last King of Osten Ard” series of books. Note also how the Ayaminu scene occurs out of chronological order by a significant amount of days/weeks: it happens near the end of the book, but should be occurring back Part 2: Autumn's Chill, mere hours after Naglimund falls. The attack on the Pure by "Queen's Hand" who are not showing their faces (note Tanahaya's lengthy interior thoughts about how SOMETHING is happening here and she needs to figure it out as author sign posting that we need to pay attention) and seem to come from nowhere with zero warning. The Norns from the hidden bases that no one, even the Prince-Templar high up next to Utuk'ku, knows of.the hidden bases set up like Ayaminu's hidden base and a stone's throw from it. My own thoughts: it's the documents from the Queen's own archive that someone tried to destroy. Raising the dead outside the mountain was probably part of a scheme to either smuggle her in or smuggle something out. So, what if a Sithi like Ayaminu showed up, spoke to Hugh of their people's old bond, and asked him to help them by taking out her enemies and letting the Norns pass through his lands in exchange for getting Erkynland?Īt a guess, Ayaminu is allied with Akhenabi and has been since HOWWL. When Aelin interrogates the men who imprisoned them, he says exactly what we know is going on but the man replies by saying he doesn't know what's going on and implying they didn't turn on anyone but Erkynland. But what if they're not working for the Norns? ![]() Speaking of the humans, we know Hugh and the Hern have seemingly turned on everyone for the Norns. ![]() They're basically false flag attacks, meant to rally this new group, the Pure (who basically behave and are described like Fascist Sithi.they literally think they're of a different race than the other Sithi, wear pins, and horde knowledge.) Specifically, we're told they started AT The Pure's city of Chikaza and spread outward. The attacks by the humans on Sithi are another matter. How did someone (human OR Norn) reach and kill Tanahaya's master? How did the human attackers know all about these old Sithi hunting paths in the Sithi forest, let alone their tactics? Why are some Sithi being left alive but with their mirrors taken, like Tanahaya? If you consider her a villain and that the goal she has is what she says in HOWWL - to see the Sithi and Norn reunited, just like they always were before Utuk'ku - then a whole lot of smaller questions start to make sense. My own thoughts are that she's likely a villain - not a full on cackling power for power's sake villain, but a more morally gray one. I made this thread to get people thinking: what role will she play, and does she have more than good intentions? She's not mentioned at all in Witchwood Crown or previously in this book, as far as I know, so it's a small appearance. So, after appearing significantly in Heart of What Was Lost as a sort of guide and mentor with a mysterious goal of her own, the Sithi named Ayaminu reappears near the end of Empire of Grass. Don't read this if you haven't read Heart of What Was Lost, Witchwood Crown, and Empire of Grass. ![]()
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