For the past fifteen years, I’ve dabbled in writing, always intending to become a professional. And during this period, I've learned that there's a lot that could be done to make fantasy fiction more delectable, especially to the critical part of my mind, which refuses to leave my poor imagination alone. Out of them, perhaps, the most prominent would be the issue of internal logic. While fantasy in general is born out of our need to delve into that which is beyond our reality, I firmly believe that a fiction should still establish its own internal logic, upon which it can build its own form of realism; internal realism, if you will. That is a big part of what I’ve tried to provide with my writing. In The Elder Lands, Lucan has to contend with the realities of his world, its rules applying to him as they would to anyone else. Any privileges he has come from within this framework of rules and traditions. Anything that makes him unique will have to be of his own making. A protagonist has to be unique after all; otherwise, there’s no reason to focus on their story out of the hundreds of characters in this world. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that I, as the author(represented by ‘fate’ or ‘god’), have to hand it to them on a silver platter. So I hope you enjoy my attempt at adding to our burgeoning subgenre of Progression Fantasy, and the overarching genre of Fantasy.