David asked David Dalglish:

Have you ever thought about writing a series on Deathmask?

David Dalglish Honestly, I've never felt the temptation (though it's been suggested a few times). You basically see his introduction as 'Deathmask' in A Dance of Blades. Anything before that's fairly, well, boring. He sits in the tower. He spies. He plots. He gets caught. The seventh Half-Orc book, King of the Vile, does get a tiny bit more into who he was, but it's nothing too crazy.

So, a new Deathmask book would have to be one focusing more on his guild after it's creation. Question is: when? Do I set it during the Shadowdance series? The Half-Orcs? If Half-Orcs, when during the series? During the events taking place in books 6-7? Prior to fleeing Veldaren in book 3?

Most importantly, though, I have characters of mine I love but I know work best when bouncing off of other characters. Deathmask's one of them. I need him bickering with Tarlak, or sparring with Haern. So trying to write a series dedicated to Deathmask, but integrating in, say, the Eschaton or the various Paladins...well I'm practically writing another Half-Orc book at that point.

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