What are REFs stories based on? Where does his inspiration come from?
As general rule for all writers, for realism you base your stories on real life. If you write a story about say war, you read all you can about war so you can make your war story as real as possible so that the reader believes your tale. You borrow from real life so the reader can connect with whats going on. This is commonly called research. REF’s inspiration also comes from what is referred to as the Friday-Nighters. Back in his college days he was a member of paper-game group that they created rules and a background history for. REF has based his stories and is basically telling the History in this game. So we are reading a history of how things unfolded for this game. For Instance there are Five Rift wars. The First one was known as the Riftwar between the Tsuranuanni Empire and the Kingdom of Isle. Then there was the Great Uprising evolving the Moredhel. The Second Rift war was the Serpent war when the Emerald Queen evades the Kingdom of Isle. The Third is known as the Dark war wh
