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Hissrich posted some behind-the-scenes photos of the Lodge from season 1, detailing how significant that moment and the Lodge scenes were for her throughout the first season and how important they are to her still. That’s when a fan asked about the decision to kill Keira Metz and Margarita Laux-Antille and replace them with characters who aren’t in the books, and Hissrich explained the variety of factors that went into that decision, as well as what led to Vesemir’s death and the possible reasoning behind Istredd’s death (H/T Redanian Intelligence).
Hissrich wrote, “hi! So many factors go into this, so I will cover as many bases as I can! The first aspect is actor availability. Not every actor is available to us exclusively, so sometimes, they’re already committed to another project when we need them. Schedules in tv are the biggest Tetris game EVER — you’re looking at the schedules of all of your actors, your director, location availability, when sets can be ready, etc. It’s actually a wonder anything gets made! Sometimes, we end up killing (or writing off) a character simply because they’re tied up in something else.”
“For the Lodge, every character is from the books except two: Ximer and Alaina. Ximer was easy: we wanted to show sorceresses from other parts of the Continent, with different magical skills, which we’d never done. In Alaina, we wanted to give Yen a mirror to when she was a novice, so she could recognize some parts of herself but also so she could see how much she’s grown,” Hissrich wrote.
