I have recently discovered you as an author & enjoy the books. I wonder if there is a glossary somewhere of things like quints, half glass & kay.

For better or worse, no such glossary exists. Most such terms are derived from our world, however. “Glass” as an interval of time actually comes from hourglass; so half-glass is the equivalent of half an hour. “Quint” comes from the Latin “quintus” (fifth). “Kay” is short for kilometer (even in our world). I used such take-offs in my fictional worlds as part of establishing their difference without using terms totally unfamiliar.

In your Imager, Recluce and Corean fantasy series characters are able to magically shield themselves. There is a reasonably popular sub-genre of fantasy called portal fantasy where the main character is transported from our world to a fantasy setting which you’ve approached twice I believe with Cassius in your Recluce series and Anna Marshall in your Spellsong series. Slightly tangential to that genre is one where a character is transported from one made up world to another. Fall of Angels might fit in that category. I’ve been wondering for a while now what if a character who was a highly skilled mage after years of training and experience was transported from one of your fantasy worlds to another and had to start over learning a new magical system from scratch? I wondered if they might struggle because they have to unlearn a lot of ingrained ways of thinking about magic. For example maintaining shields is something they trained to do to the point that they barely consciously think about it and then have to learn a whole new method of shielding and their old way of thinking keeps tripping them up. Do you imagine the sort of protagonist you usually write having these kind of issues or would they be able to adapt?

I haven’t really thought about adaptation, but most of my protagonists are adaptable. As you point out, it would likely pose initial difficulties for all of them, but the degree of difficulty would depend in some degree on the differences between the magic system they had already mastered and the one of the world they then found themselves in. I suspect most would not be as proficient in learning/handling the new system. This would be especially true of most who were transported to Erde, because no amount of study will substitute for innate musical ability.

I think I may have spotted a contradiction/inconsistency. In “The Magic of Recluce” it says “The greatest strength of chaos is its ability to thwart complexity” but when Lerris observes everything about woodworking seems made to make it as complicated as possible Sardit answers “Of course it’s complicated. Do you want your work to fall apart at the first touch of chaos?” Have I missed something?

Sheer force of chaos can overcome anything not well-built, or even something well-built of weak materials. But sheer force of chaos cannot overcome a complex structure of superior materials that are also order-braced.

Oops on https://www.lemodesittjr.com/the-books/ – the 2nd to last icon in the Imager series points to Endgames when it should point to Assassin’s Price.

Thank you. We’re working on it.

Why are there so many pre established themes that “coincidentally” carry over from the original UFA/UFF – Rationalist universes? Will we ever get stories set before that tell how all this got set in motion to begin with?

All successful invaders/colonizers bring their cultural predilections/baggage with them, just as the English who settled Massachusetts and Virginia did, or the Spanish and Portuguese who settled Central and South America. The same was true of both the Rationalists and the black angels; it wasn’t coincidental. As for stories set in the past of both cultures… it’s unlikely, but I won’t foreclose that possibility.