Appendix N: Inspirational and Educational Reading

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<  Saberhagen is listed for his "Empire of the East" that I very much liked.
None other of his novels struck me in this regard. >
 
 

merkholz wrote:
Gary, I was wondering what your view was on the mad Overking V, Ivid. Rob Kuntz described him as a lost, innocent soul in the clutches of an evil wizard in his Maze of Zayene series. In Saga of Old City it is obvious that the ruler of the Great Kingdom was a tyrant and in the '83 box it seems evident that the line of Naelax are mad, evil, devilworshipping fiends. Did you see Ivid as a non-evil monarch in an evil nation or an evil madman at the head of a court of evil nobles?

M
 

As the one that conceptualized the character of Ivid V, Overking, I assure you he is demented, malign, and thoroughly evil.
Think of the Emperor John Ominer in The Broken Lands by Fred Saberhagen, and then make the mental image more vile and scheming.

Cheers,
Gary
 
 

With the sad news of Fred Saberhagen's passing fresh in my mind, I must say that the Great Kingdom I pictured as akin to John Ominer's Empire of the East.