Trivia / The Empirium Trilogy

• Extremely Lengthy Creation: From inception to publication, Furyborn took fourteen years to create. Part of that was due to Legrand being in college for some of that time and/or working on other books while editing the trilogy.
• Inspiration for the Work: While listening to the soundtrack for The Return of the King, Legrand got a vivid vision of a woman surrounded by fire. A story started to take shape around that image, and the woman herself would later be named Rielle Dardenne, one of the primary protagonists. Legrand also took inspiration from various Catholic myths.
• Word of God: The "Frequently Asked Questions" page on Legrand's official website includes trivia about the trilogy.
  • Legrand had the most fun writing Rielle, Simon, Remy, and Corien while Eliana and Ludivine were the most challenging.
  • In its initial state, Furyborn was too long and unpolished enough that numerous agents kept rejecting her query letters. It wasn't until she wrote and shopped around The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls that she was able to find an agent. (Cavendish itself would become her debut novel.)
  • Of the novels she's written, Legrand's personal favorite is a three-way tie with Lightbringer being one of them.
  • Legrand considers Furyborn the hardest book she's ever written, on account of the fact that it took twelve years to write and edit.
  • Her favorite chapter in Furyborn is Chapter 41.

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