Mr. Jordan—I’m a dedicated fan of your series who’s bought all of the books in hardback, and first I’d like to thank you for bringing such a wonderful world to life for us. It seems to me that your work is something relatively new in fantasy—you’re exploring a situation where there is no known quest or goal to be fulfilled in order for victory to be assured. Instead it seems more like the real world—uncertain, with the heroes fighting a war without knowledge of the ‘victory conditions’. Would you care to comment?
I wanted to write a fantasy that reflected the real world. With characters who reflected real people—not specific people—but characters who were real people. And there are things about the real world that I wanted such as people who end up heroes very rarely set out to be heroes and heroic journeys consist mainly of sleeping rough and going hungry, wondering how you are going to pay for the next meal and wonder exactly what it is you are supposed to do and how are you going to get out of it alive.
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