Billie Black
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Seth Dickinson:
Hi, Seth. I was reading through the grimoire anthologies and realised you were the first to bring up the final shape as a concept in the the books of sorrow. So it got me wondering, was the final shape already floating around the writers room before that or was it something you invented for the taken king? And if so, what was your original idea of what the final shape would be?
Seth Dickinson
There was no writer's room. It was just a concept I found compelling, both in the context of Destiny's cosmology and broader ideas about the tyranny of adaptive fitness as a bottleneck on creating morally good systems.
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