The last battle strategy and body count were in RJ’s notes, the specifics not. So he did specify who’d die but not how. Help was gotten from Bernard Cornwell. (woohoo!)
RJ set up the whole layout of the battle, who would be where and who would not make it out but he kept insisting that he’d write the Last Battle on the fly, so to speak. Apparently Bernard Cornwell lives kind of close to their place so one day Harriet asked him over for coffee and he had a few good pointers for the battle (which I personally think is great because his battle-style has a very similar immediacy in scale as RJ displayed in Dumai’s Wells and while I also think that BS writes good battles, he’s better at the one-on-one type things and not so good with the massive event that the Last Battle would be).
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