[Rahl Windsong]

It all started for me because of the online game Ultima Online. I had been playing that game for about a year and that is all I was doing, playing a game. Then one day I joined a guild and suddenly I had this character that lived in this virtual world that was Ultima Online.

After a few years Rp'ing in my guild I found out about a volunteer program that allowed players to become dungeon masters in the game, they were known as Seer's in UO.

I took the online interview and I passed their tests and became a Seer. As a Seer I was given a special account that could do things like teleport around the game world and be invisible to the players, even take on the form of any monster in the game and make it seem intelligent to the players. We could do pretty much anything we needed to do in order to be a dungeon master in the game.

So now that I was a Seer I needed ideas for my stories and up until then I had read The Hobbit once and maybe started to read Lord of the Rings never finishing it. So I started reading any fantasy I could get my hands on just to fill my head with ideas for in game stories. I never copied anything from the stories I just used the ideas I found in them to help me to come up with stories that would fit into the world of Ultima Online.

The first book I read to get ideas was the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series by Tad Williams and to this day it remains one of my all time favorite stories.

Up until all that took place I mostly read Science Fiction but since then I have hardly read any of that...