'Also, while he's in jail, Tom is at the mercy of his enemies. He is right where Roland died, if Roland ever existed, and there are consequences for him being there,' Carey explained.

'When Tom went to the Villa Diodati, he was at the location where Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' was written, and in issue #6, he's in Donostia Prison, which is located on the point where the 'Song of Roland' had its origin. In the new arc of 'The Unwritten,' the 'Song of Roland' will have direct relevance to the situation that Tom Taylor finds himself in. So he stands his ground against this this Moorish host and loses his army. He was asked to sound his great horn, Olifant, and call for help, but he wouldn't because that would have been a shameful thing to do. 'There were - reportedly - a huge number of casualties, and in the 'Song of Roland,' that's dramatized as being the result of Roland's refusal to call for help. So he was coming back to France with the remnants of his army and making some territorial gains, but then his rear guard was ambushed and massacred at the battle of Ronceveaux Pass,' Carey explained. He won a few modest victories, but took some damage along the way. The Emperor Charlemagne had been campaigning in Spain against the Moors. ''Song of Roland' is a fascinating example of a fiction that had a disproportionate impact on the world.

'The Unwritten' #7, on sale in NovemberTom will need to call on everything his father taught him to survive the new arc of 'The Unwritten.' Not only is he locked in prison, he's also at the location where the 'Song of Roland,' a famous medieval narrative about a massacre, was born.

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