How does Clayface the Goblin know to carve the statue of he four who saved the 9 kingdoms?
You have touched on a very interesting question here. Clayface was originally supposed to return later in the series, in the swamp scene, where much of the mystery of the Queen’s past is revealed. Unfortunately the actor, Jimmy Nail, was unavailable when we came to film, so instead I rewrote the scene for Warwick. I think you will agree that the teasing reference to the future of our heroes would have made more sense if it had been Clayface pretending to be the swamp witch. I put the idea into the story in the first place because I wanted to show how different the world of the 9 Kingdoms is from ours – they accept destiny as a fact of life, and so in a sense they have knowledge (maybe intuition is a better word?) of future events. This is a theme that I touch on many times in the series – the idea that they are there to play out their fate, rather than have the kind of free will that most people in our world believe in. Incidentally Jimmy Nail was cast because the British TV partner, S
