Thank you for the lovely long comment ^^ About 60% of my usual yearly writing output is historicals, but this year I've written barely any, which feels a little strange! So it was nice to go back to the genre, even if this is mostly pseudo-historical and a mix of the Byzantine and the Ottoman. 1001 Nights was definitely the inspiration (I'll take your word for it on 'Game of Thrones', I haven't seen it/read it!), and all the djinn lore is true - they fear iron (btw the iron box is this one in the medieval church in our village!) and won't go in a room where there's citron, and for all their fiery birth they love water.
The only bit I invented really was the taking of the dreams, and that came from the 'Do Dream' interview a few months ago where they were asked to describe themselves and Yunho said he was chasing his dream and Changmin said he was 'stealing the dream of the boy next to me', which I thought was a very ambiguous (and rather profound) thing to say. So the whole story came from that comment!
The only bit I invented really was the taking of the dreams, and that came from the 'Do Dream' interview a few months ago where they were asked to describe themselves and Yunho said he was chasing his dream and Changmin said he was 'stealing the dream of the boy next to me', which I thought was a very ambiguous (and rather profound) thing to say. So the whole story came from that comment!
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts :)
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