Did Erickson ever describe how he came up with the K’Chain Che’malle?

Loll I love this. Or, all their ideas were born of a night of shrooms and improv "yes,ands" that they then had to negotiate the next day.

"Okay, I'll give you your undead Neanderthals who can turn into dust if you give me my race of beings who wear ice armor, wield ice weapons, and ride waves that kinda look like horses"

"Deal. But only if I can have my houses that hold superpowered beings in the lawn and grow from acorns"

"Fine, but I want a continent made up a single jungle entity"

"A continent seems like a lot now. What if it's half a continent, and the other half is the remnants of kallors empire that destroyed by the fall of the crippled god"

"Yea that works. Speaking of your crippled god, what if one of his pieces is in my jungle, and ANOTHER is what the ice guys are after, which leads to some humans creating a giant wall"

"Giant wall eh...what about a giant floating city"

"Love it, we've got ourselves a 30 book series here I'd say!"

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