wintertriangles

Hmmm. Not off the top of my head, but I've definitely read a handful over the years that talk about things sort of related. I can check and see if I've saved anything close, though probably nothing quite that specific.

Sure no problem! Also, recommend some bands to me.

Do send me a link to your new album, if possible (:

No but you may! I was listening to the Austlune stuff in your contact info link. Are you still making music for that band?

Wow, your music reminds me of Opeth and Dimmu Borgir. (:

Huh. I dunno. I mean lots of them set the tone, but I dunno if any of them do more than that. Are there any examples in other media? Does anyone do this? I mean, there's "Peter and the Wolf."

I dunno. What do you mean by relevant?

And more than that, conceptually. The idea of reducing the landscape to clockwork toys, the idea of treating reality like a game. So good. And just cool looking, too. AND it's a useful way to show you the geography of what can be a very sprawling world. AND they show different locations depending on where you are in the story. So brilliant. It accomplishes so much. All the way down to the fact where the title card is around the world's sun.

I was referencing the circumstances under which the 4th and 5th books were written, and why. I guess I can probably explain without giving away anything: after book three he'd sort of planned to jump forward in time a bit. But he decided it'd be too weird referencing stuff that didn't happen, so those two books are less dense with major developments (I hear; I've read the fourth, but everyone says the same about the fifth). Not just filler, but not exactly meat, either. There's actually a lot more about the writing of the 4th and 5th, too, because they're divided geographically and are semi-chronological so that certain characters don't show up at all, which kinda annoyed a lot of people for obvious reasons. But he was having a devil of a time weaving it all together so that was ultimately the solution.

Ah, 26 chapters, so first book.

Fair point on the music...except for the opening, right? Because I love the music there. But then, I think it's just the best opening sequence for any show I've ever seen, altogether.

How far into it are you, by the way? Thoughts?