Talk:Shadowmarch

Copyright
I'm assuming this book and series, which exists and still exists, got past legal, but I rather wonder how, seeing as how the term and concept "Drow" pops up constantly with no acknowledgement of, say, gratefully received permission from Wizards of the Coast for use of their copyright on the concept and term, etc., ... - did the author and the legal team think it was public domain? One visible aspect of a whole lot of shoddiness in this whole 4-volume effort, mind you, but it's certainly one visible aspect. (I expected better from the author of Otherland than all the continuity breaks, word respellings and re-respellings in the middle of paragraphs, etc.- what, have Zelazny's Courts of Chaos planted their flags?... - but copyright violation's a whole other order of etc. So I assume I'm either wrong, or it was hashed out. If it was hashed out, that's presumably a story worth telling, unless the papers are sealed, or somesuch.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 05:39, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

I stay adamant on the other points, some of which are just silly (the series reads like the collaborative effort between people who don't read each others' drafts that one may almost expect from the way Williams described it- at one point the king has been informed of something, at another he's frantically surprised by the same thing, no hint he's suffered a bout of amnesia or decided to pretend to it, inbetween... e.g. ...) - but I am informed that "drow", stripped of specifically "AD&D" connotations, is an alternate spelling for Trow. ... got it. :) Schissel | Sound the Note! 05:48, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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Splitting the last part into two volumes
I believe the author himself mentions this split in the foreword to part three, which I don't have handy at the moment, I'll check and clear up the cn tag. --Ouro (blah blah) 14:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)