Legacies of Betrayal is the third book in Steven Erikson's The Tales of Witness.
STATUS: On 23 November 2024, Erikson reported on Facebook that work on the third Witness book was complete and turned in to his agent. He also revealed the book's title in response to a fan question.[1]
In May 2024, Erikson revealed the Witness Trilogy was now a four-book series. He says he "was writing [No Life Forsaken] when I realised it was actually two novels, and I have about a month's worth of writing [remaining] for each of those two novels. So I'll be able to deliver them to the publisher almost back to back."[2]
Previously, in December 2023, Erikson said he was about 3/4 of the way through writing the novel when he "realised that I was writing two novels--not one. And so structurally, it was a mess. And so what I had to do was step back and reorder basically everything I had done up to this point. And then having reordered it, I realised I needed to start adding some bridging scenes and bridging chapters that could link them back up and make it a bit more of a cohesive storyline as opposed to two. So that's kind of what I'm hammering away at right now. It's weird to be working on Chapter 4 knowing I've got, I don't know, 17 chapters already written past that."[3]
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