5/13/2023 0 Comments Shades of magic ve schwab![]() ![]() Where is the line between people who feel like they don’t belong, like Kell, and people who can belong anywhere, like Lila? Language is one of the best ways to immediately create a barrier, but a porous barrier, because language is a thing that can be learned. When you look at a language, it’s used differently depending on where you are in the social strata, depending on how comfortable you are. Fashion reflects class, it reflects culture, it reflects insider/outsider delineations, royalty and commoner, the have and the have-not Fashion is not only a great visual shorthand but it’s also a societal indicator. Kell’s red coat or Lila’s black coat, these become shorthand that allow you to conjure up the character as you are reading. For me personally, fashion and language are the two that really inform. You have be very selective in details that can be indicators of greater concepts. ![]() ![]() How do you make the world feel real without getting bogged down in details? Instead of four different landscapes, I had four different iterations of the landscape where society had different relationships to power: One where magic was forgotten, one where it thrived in balance with people, one where it was subjugated, and one where it went unchecked and consumed everything. I wanted to write a portal fantasy, but I hate when a story starts with a map. Shades of Magic is set in four worlds that are centered on London. PW talked to Schwab about her bringing her imagined world into a visual medium. ![]()
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