.alanajoli chats with themelissablair about ABrokenBlade, fantasy assassins, worldbuilding, and more.
Fantasy is full of clever assassins, both working for the authorities and against them. They may be dour and sarcastic or grinning and joyful . Whether they work for a shadowy guild or run solo, assassins are a staple, and Anishinnabe-kwe writer Melissa Blair used that character trope to challenge some of the traditional notions of colonialist narratives with her debut novel,, Keera is the most notorious, terrifying assassin in Elverath.
We got a chance to talk with Blair about reinventing old fantasy tropes to deliver a new message—and a fantastic new adventure. It’s also why I think it works so well in an anti-colonial story. Colonialism has always weaponized these narratives—twisting perceptions of justice, righteousness, and morality in the favor of the colonizer and then telling those stories again and again until it feels like the truth. Bringing in the anti-colonial element takes the assassin narrative from a singular view of morality to a broader, more collective one. The assassin is no longer the weapon of the tale, the system oppressing her is.
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