that's

sticky.

But at the same time, having grown up on fantasy novels that were almost all Western European analogs, you know, June nights, Kings, princesses, all that stuff.

Even the really hardcore stuff like Joe Abercrombie's work, which is amazing.

It's still just a variation on modern history of Western Europe, not even really Eastern Europe.

Like, so, and I'm like, you know, I, and I started thinking when I got this gig, I started to think about it and I am like, five or six generations removed from there.

And I grew up here, I grew up in Northern Michigan, and there's still some very active tribes up there.

Right.

Like a comic strip, they walk in with lines over them.

You can see lines emanating from, they're carrying a bag of trash, but it's actually a bag of money.

So Alcon's the boss in this.

And they had basically a slug line.

And I'll explain that to you in a second, but I had to develop the whole idea from there.

There were five full 50 pangol space outlines.

I went through with them over and over again to finally find something they liked from their single slug line.

I would rather have Scott Sigler's imagination, take it where, where it's going to go.