On Creating the Weir by Jay Posey If you’ve read any of the Legends of the Duskwalker trilogy, you’ve bumped into the Weir; the glowy-blue-eyed fiends that wander the Open wastes of the Duskwalker world at night, harvesting anyone unlucky enough to be caught outside when the sun goes down. If you haven’t read the books, thinking of the Weir as (fast) cybernetic zombies is a pretty good starting point. But it would be a mistake to think that’s all there is to them. I wouldn’t blame you, of course, because that’s pretty much what I thought about them at first too. I met them about the same time readers did, which was in the Prologue of Three , the first novel in the trilogy. When I started writing that scene, I knew it was a bad idea in the Duskwalker world to be outside when the sun went down, but I didn’t know exactly why. I just knew there was Something Out There. When the Weir showed up, they were a terrifying mystery. There was no doubt they were the Something Out There,...