[Bauchelain the Evil]

Which is what ST is saying. ICE created most of the characters so he didn't have much problems. However Karsa was created by SE and as such it must be done carefully.

[blackzoid]

Why exactly? Karsa isn't more important than say Dassem/Laseen/Tayschreen or Shadowthrone who have been successfully written by both authors.
I'd rather ICE go full-out with how he views Karsa. As long as its not too different to how Karsa was portrayed by SE, it should be fine.

[D'rek]

I'm certain all ICE's future books will contain a mix of characters previously seen in ICE novels, characters previously seen in SE novels, and brand new characters.

Iron Bars, Silverfox, Karsa, Torvald, Kruppe... I'm confident he can pull them all off just as we'd want them. Sure there might be slight stylistic differences, but nothing majorly different and neither for better nor for worse. I'm especially anxious to see him do the T'lan Imass in the Assail novel.

[Silencer]

Kallor.

[Sinisdar Toste]

karsa is a complicated character, i just don't want him to blurt out something completely out of character, and am confident that between the two of them, they will keep this from happening.

@Silencer - agree and like the italic effect

[HiddenOne]

Lack of continuity would put a dent in the credibility of ICE because, although he has credit for his contributions, the main body of work is from SE. Also, the quality would drop, and all forumites would rebel, if people were appearing that died in other books, changes in history, city names, whatever. I think a world this huge could handle some work on the other side of the globe to avoid all exisiting characters, but we love the ones we've already got. (Besides you can't take Malazan out of the MBotF, right?)

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

HiddenOne, on 01 July 2010 - 05:58 PM, said:

Lack of continuity would put a dent in the credibility of ICE because, although he has credit for his contributions, the main body of work is from SE. Also, the quality would drop, and all forumites would rebel, if people were appearing that died in other books, changes in history, city names, whatever. I think a world this huge could handle some work on the other side of the globe to avoid all exisiting characters, but we love the ones we've already got. (Besides you can't take Malazan out of the MBotF, right?)

That wasn't the continuity I meant when I made this topic. I was wondering if ICE's books were going to be following one overaching plot-line, or if they were all going to be individual novels for the most part.

[Harvester]

I hope they will be stand alone novels (with some recurring characters), that would provide ICE with some narrative freedom.

[Salt-Man Z]

Given that we already have 2 of the books, a peek at the third, and knowing something about the upcoming ones, it seems fairly safe to guess that they'll be mostly standalone-ish, but with a few common threads and recurring plotlines/characters.

[Paran]

I think the 5 books will loosely be based around Kyle, the 3 from Assail and Greymane. Prologue seems a lot more promising than RotCG, which seeminlgy enabled badass characters to turn somewhat lame.

[Aptorian]

Well, the prologue of RCG also promised unseen levels of awesome. Look what that got us.

That said, the prologue for Stonewielder seems a lot more "Eriksonian" in its structure.

[MTS]

In MoI we have Kallor obliterating his empire and Pannion and what's-her-tusk getting chucked into the rift, in MT we have Silchas getting betrayed, in RG we have Bloodeye getting curb-smashed and in ROTCG we have Osserc blowing an Azath to smithereens. So all of the prologues set in the Elder times have been totally badass, but it's not really something to judge a book by. Of those books (barring MoI) you would be fair to say a lot of people have problems with at least one of them.

This one looks very promising in the way it was written though, very sharp. Yet I for one am hoping to whatever gods there are that Kyle does not play a huge role in multiple books. I mean, I loved ROTCG, but I was not a fan of Kyle.

[eiji]

cutter hasnt played a huge role. i dont see kyle having a massive part either. i hope ICE dosnt try and keep a huge arc. i like the idea that he will just flit in and out filling in sdome of the detail SE has just breezed past.

i definatly want a new malazan conquest, they cant lose more ground

[HiddenOne]

WhiskeyJackDaniels, on 01 July 2010 - 08:41 PM, said:

That wasn't the continuity I meant when I made this topic. I was wondering if ICE's books were going to be following one overaching plot-line, or if they were all going to be individual novels for the most part.

Apologies, WJD. I think individual works appeal more to me.

[maro]

It's probable that Kyle is just the cypher for the reader.

Quite a common fantasy meme.

[Excellence]

People are asking if there'll be continuity between Crimson and Stone but isn't that a given?

The Imperial Renegade is called Stonewielder. He's had contact with the Riders, who made a move on Shadow House and are the underlining theme in the parallel series. Iron Bars captive there.

It's a given.

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Excellence, on 11 July 2010 - 11:24 AM, said:

People are asking if there'll be continuity between Crimson and Stone but isn't that a given?

The Imperial Renegade is called Stonewielder. He's had contact with the Riders, who made a move on Shadow House and are the underlining theme in the parallel series. Iron Bars captive there.

It's a given.

I'm regretting using this thread title...

The original point of the thread was to ask if there was going to be one clear interwoven plot-line throughout all of ICE's books, or if they are a series of related, but interconnected novels. Considering they are all being set on different continents the latter seemed more likely, but SW seems like it might follow directly from RotCG, so I figured I'd as and find out if ICE has ever mentioned his plan in an interview.