Enigmaliée

Enigmaliée asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Dear Lois, I just want to say to you that I absolutely love your Chalion Trilogy. A huge compliment for your original and very engaging writing style! How dit you get this idea about demons infesting persons and creating havoc?

Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, demonic possession is a very old idea, both in fantasy as a reading genre, and in traditional folklore and (some) religion. In the World of the Five Gods, I'm just doing my own very different take upon the idea, because the underlying theology is so different from that of historical Europe, or indeed from any other real-world religion I've yet read about.

I explore my own construction in much greater depth in the Penric & Desdemona series, starting with the novella "Penric's Demon", if you've not got to that yet. (Show don't tell 'n all that.)

Ta, L.

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