The Tsurani, the invading race from another world, are described as pan Asian culture. That will 100% change.
From the author:
"Japan during the Tokagawa Shogunate, China during the Sung Dynasty, Korea for some of the cultural window dressing, a touch of Zulu from before the Zulu-Boer War, and a couple of things I cribbed from the Aztecs. Mix well, stir, and pour. No mystery. The influences for how I designed the Tsurani originally for Magician were asian.I wanted the reader to have a huge sense of "culture clash" after the 1st half of the book was spent in a relatively European-esque environment. "
We should make woke story beats bingo cards with spaces like homos, miscegenation, man incompetent, woman gives orders, the villain is racist, etc.
The Tsurani, the invading race from another world, are described as pan Asian culture. That will 100% change.
From the author: "Japan during the Tokagawa Shogunate, China during the Sung Dynasty, Korea for some of the cultural window dressing, a touch of Zulu from before the Zulu-Boer War, and a couple of things I cribbed from the Aztecs. Mix well, stir, and pour. No mystery. The influences for how I designed the Tsurani originally for Magician were asian.I wanted the reader to have a huge sense of "culture clash" after the 1st half of the book was spent in a relatively European-esque environment. "