How do I break out of those weird tropes but still write something with gnomes and shit? What does it look like when wizards control the means of production?

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Age of Madness has been great so far and I'm looking forward to the third book. A blurb on the premise

    The new trilogy takes place about 28 years after the conclusion of Last Argument of Kings, or 15 years after Red Country. The Union has entered an Industrial Age, with chimneys rising all over Midderland, but that doesn't mean that the ancient powers have gone away, or that things have gotten any better. Gone are the days of the honest farmer making enough money to get by; here comes a glorious future, a future filled with machinery, a future where commerce means prosperity; but what happens when the poor and downtrodden workers are pushed to their limit?

    Hopefully it sticks the landing.

    • Bugger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      'Perhaps we could make some gesture. A minimum wage? Improved working conditions? I heard a recent fire in a mill led to the deaths of fifteen child workers—

      ' It would be folly,' said Bayaz, his attention already back on the gardens, `to obstruct the free operation of the market.'

      `The market serves the interests of all,' offered the lord chancellor. '

      Unprecedented,' agreed the high justice. 'Prosperity.'

      `No doubt the child workers would applaud it,' said Orso.

      `No doubt,' agreed Lord Hoff.

      `Had they not been burned to death.'