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Originally posted by Encard:
Hmm... does anyone have any kind of information/official sites/etc on the Shadow War saga?
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This taken from a 1998 interview
Q. We will see Pug, or Macros the Black, reappear?
A. You won't see Macros, I doubt seriously that I will put him into a game, and if he's not in the game he won't be the series of books. Macros is too much like a nuclear bomb he's a sheaf of destruction. Chekov said something really important if you are a writer. That is if you have a gun on a mantle place in act one you had better have shoot it off in act three. If you bring Macros in you had better have something cosmic going on, and how many planet eating monsters can I throw at Midkemia .It follows something George Shwarz told me about when he was editing DC comics he really liked editing Superman ,and Batman ,but he told me once he hated Justice League I asked him why and he said because of the stupid Superman book, He said every month the writer has to come up with a reason why Superman is weaker or dumber than in his own book, other wise its watch Green Lantern, Wonder Woman , Aquaman, the Flash and Batman stand around and watch Superman solve the problem , so the first thing the writer has to do is how do I get Superman out of the story .He said I hate it every month I have to do something to get Superman out of the story . Yeah well I'm have the same problem with Pug now its like he's getting to the point where fine, Pugs been showing his power for a lot of reasons valid dramatic reasons. He got his ass kicked in Rage, because he got a little arrogant. Pug has finally realized that he has a lot of power, I haven't articulated this way but if I was to write now I would prefer Pug talking to somebody. Even with great power, power is meaningless if you are not willing to use it. I'll give you an idea, what's a more effective weapon a 22-caliber handgun or a nuclear bomb .It depends on what you what to do. If you what to take a hostage, and be able to focus on that one person then obviously the pistol is more important, if you what to hold the entire city of Auckland hostage then the nuclear bomb is your better bet, only if you are willing to use it, in other words if you are willing to turn this city in to radioactive slag heap sitting on top of a crater, then you have something rather formidable, but the question that comes is whose going to play chicken first, so Pug is faced with a situation where there are a lot of things he can do but only when he is willing to use his power , that was one of the key issues between him and the Kingdom at the end of Shards. I'm not your puppet or your secret weapon you can not order me to go out and slaughter thousands of people I won't do it there's that moral element to it. And Pug can only be one place at a time he's got a lot of power he can do some magic things he can set up some wards and things to tip him off when things are going on in certain areas. But even if he is sitting in his study and suddenly two arms go up at the same time, something going down in the Keshian boarder and something happening in the Northlands where's he to go. Where he isn't he's not intervening.
So Pug will become very involved in the conclave of the shadows in the next series it would have been running for a number of years. I was thinking of calling it the Secret War, then I was reminded of a bad mini series the marvel comics put out called the Secret Wars. So that's where we will go with Pug, he will be much more than the man behind the throne. So actually if you think about it that's what Macros did for a number of years so in that sense there is a seminary with him at the end of the book. Pug will take on the mantel of the black sorcerer, he will let the legend of the black sorcerer keep people away from the island, scare people and become more a mystery .One of the things I can tell you about the new series is there will be lots of new characters, that are ether recruited or about to be.
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