I was book-flinging furious when I read the first Greg Keyes novel. (Thankfully it was a paperback. No one was harmed.

) Eventually I got used to it being a part of what happened. Still not happy about it, though. My ideas for Morrowind and Black Marsh will just take place in the thousands of years before those events. Actually, I’m getting ticked off just thinking about it again. Grrr!
I’ll pass along what I’ve been told: Lore serves your story, not the other way around. McB’s Knights stories give me a lot of inspiration to go my own way when it suits me, as well as his stories being so very enjoyable to read.