Oct 13, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 15 segments
The Trolls play host to D.R. Chester, the Author of the excellanr Pannithor Novel = Rage and Grace, Danny tells us all about his writing , how he started, how he continues and the end results ! The…
Danny GravesGuestBobHostJanHostSo, how did you approach balancing the rich lore and history with active storytelling so the reader wasn't bogged down by exposition dumps?
Like there's one section where she's describing like daydreaming about the history of the Cerulean Dell is the main Elven city in there.
And I wanted that to be like the city's one of the main focuses because there's three different races in there I wanted the Twilight King to be very separate and rather than it just being these type of elves are evil and they fight like this and they look like that I wanted it to be very much focused on the culture so you get a sense of what they're like instead of telling you and having the history of this town like history tells a lot about a culture.
So having the history of the city and how it came to be like it is, that tells a lot about the culture of the elves in that area.
Um, And there was another section as well where she's looking at a painting of her great-grandfather in the house.
They're still in there, but I just needed to shave off some of the extra meat of it.
Yeah.
They'll be like, oh, we need to tell something about this wonderful world of Panathor or... warcraft or whatever so we'll put in this big chunk of backstory that a character will tell another character and it's almost quite clumsy you'll be like why are they actually telling me this big bit of backstory so i like putting in smaller bits of the actual culture which tell bits of that as opposed to dumping it in one um yeah i like showing through the characters and their actions and the actual story the law and the characters and the races.
So it almost feels like a lived in world as opposed to we're being told about the world.
Yeah, because I've noticed in some of the other Panethor books, at the start of each chapter, they have like an excerpt from almost like the old rule book style thing.
They have like an excerpt that says, written by Professor Wolfgang whatever, the University of such and such, that tells you about halflings and their way of life.
So it's... rather than having it built into the story, it's like blocked off at the start of each chapter.
It tells you a bit more about it.
Yeah,
So, how did you approach balancing the rich lore and history with active storytelling so the reader wasn't bogged down by exposition dumps?
Like there's one section where she's describing like daydreaming about the history of the Cerulean Dell is the main Elven city in there.
And I wanted that to be like the city's one of the main focuses because there's three different races in there I wanted the Twilight King to be very separate and rather than it just being these type of elves are evil and they fight like this and they look like that I wanted it to be very much focused on the culture so you get a sense of what they're like instead of telling you and having the history of this town like history tells a lot about a culture.
So having the history of the city and how it came to be like it is, that tells a lot about the culture of the elves in that area.
Um, And there was another section as well where she's looking at a painting of her great-grandfather in the house.
They're still in there, but I just needed to shave off some of the extra meat of it.
Yeah.
They'll be like, oh, we need to tell something about this wonderful world of Panathor or... warcraft or whatever so we'll put in this big chunk of backstory that a character will tell another character and it's almost quite clumsy you'll be like why are they actually telling me this big bit of backstory so i like putting in smaller bits of the actual culture which tell bits of that as opposed to dumping it in one um yeah i like showing through the characters and their actions and the actual story the law and the characters and the races.
So it almost feels like a lived in world as opposed to we're being told about the world.
Yeah, because I've noticed in some of the other Panethor books, at the start of each chapter, they have like an excerpt from almost like the old rule book style thing.
They have like an excerpt that says, written by Professor Wolfgang whatever, the University of such and such, that tells you about halflings and their way of life.
So it's... rather than having it built into the story, it's like blocked off at the start of each chapter.
It tells you a bit more about it.
Yeah,
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