liveandletdive said:
Yeah imagine Druss standing on the walls of Dros Delnoch swinging Snaga at the nadir, what a movie it would make...
I heard Gemmell talking about Legend at one of his book signings. The whole premise of the book was that Druss the Legend, the hero of the Drenai and the man everyone was counting on to turn the tide, was supposed to die in the very first battle. But when he was writing the battle scenes he said Druss just took on a life of his own and wouldn't die. He'd get to the end of a chapter and think "shit, he's not dead yet"
Just before we went to the signing we were in Macdonalds and a few of us were chatting about Gemmell and his works. My cousin was not a huge fan and was slating everything he did. He dismissed Druss as just a poor mans Conan.
Unbeknown to us, the great man himself was sat on the table next to us and heard every word.
At the start of his talk he mentioned overhearing this conversation and asked if the person who didn't like Druss was in the room. The whole room was hushed in anticipation, Gemmell was a pretty intimidating bloke and he glared around the room to see if he could spot us.
My cousin had shrunk right down into his seat and was squirming like fuck and just as he thought he'd got away with it, I grassed him up and shouted "It was him" whilst pointing an accusing finger.
It was funny as fuck, our Ste is pretty outspoken but he was like a fucking worm on a hook.
He's never forgiven me for that.
