When I wrote my book, I intentionally left a few bricks lying around in it, so that I could make them look like foreshadowing later on. Really, I have no idea what they will connect to, just that they're not connected to anything right now.
Several of the loose ends are already planned to connect to books 2, 3, and the (presumptively) conclusive book 4, but there are others that I just threw in as an investment that might pay off later. But no reader would know for sure whether any given loose end is a forward link or just a brick, until the series is pinched off and it's still left hanging.
Several of the loose ends are already planned to connect to books 2, 3, and the (presumptively) conclusive book 4, but there are others that I just threw in as an investment that might pay off later. But no reader would know for sure whether any given loose end is a forward link or just a brick, until the series is pinched off and it's still left hanging.