Thank you so much! I, too, am extremely excited for folks to see what's in store for Haley in the next season. In the meantime, though, we recently recorded the first session of Eidolon Montreal, and I'm incredibly happy with the character I made for that one; so look forward to that!
I'll tackle your question below the Read More since there will be spoilers for the whole Queen miniseries.
Okay, now that folks have been warned, I took the most inspiration from Lord of the Rings and Dark Souls 2, which are both favorites of mine. After making my decision to GM the Queen miniseries, I pretty quickly locked into the core premise of it, so I knew from the start that I wanted to capture the melancholic feeling of being in a once-grand high-fantasy kingdom on a road to inevitable doom and decline. Though I keep the references to my inspirations fairly oblique, Mel and Brook are by far the most blatant: they're pretty much just Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, if Tom was also a butch, lesbian Paul Bunyan (with Mad being Mel's Babe the Blue Ox, of course).
Also, I mentioned this on the Disco midmortem, but Luke pulling the twist I was planning on using out from under me in Disco was honestly a blessing. It forced me to come up with a different finale for Queen that I was ultimately happier with, where the final villain was the abstract force of despair, mundanity, and selfish consumption. I tried not to let it dominate the miniseries, but Queen was at least partially a release valve for frustrations I had with modern fantasy trends vacillating between "gritty and realistic" (of which the latter is hardly ever true and is clearly the author projecting their pessimism onto a whole world of guys they made up) and "extremely uncomfortable wish fulfillment" (which is, just, what WAY too much of fantasy anime is these days). I wanted to create a world where times were tough, and hope was waning, but people were still mostly good to each other; and we press on despite the odds because, hey, maybe a miracle will actually happen. Because that's my experience with life, far more than, say, A Song of Ice and Fire is.

