Only, he lost, and the Dark Lord took over and has been ruling with an iron fist for a thousand years. A thousand years ago, the prophesied hero from lore rose up to overthrow a great and terrible evil. What if the Dark Lord won? What if, in the final climactic moments, he killed the hero and took over the world? I wanted to take the standard fantasy story I’d read a dozen times, that of a young peasant hero who went on a quest to defeat a Dark Lord, and turn it on its head. The second idea was to write a story about a world where the good guys lost. I wanted to tell the story of how their different magics and abilities worked together for them to pull an incredible caper. The first was that of a heist story, like Sneakers or Ocean’s Eleven involving a gang of gentlemen thieves who each had a distinctive magic power. I came into this book with two big ideas for the plot.
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