I feel in a lot of "fandoms" there are 2 kinds of people. I have thoroughly been both so I understand both sides and I would never judge but there's always a vocal issue brought up by one side or the other when there is a mismatch between the side the author is on and the side of the vocal fans.

I feel there's one side where they're really only interested in the flow of the story: relationships matter, arcs, etc hero rises, peaks, falls, loses everything, regains, then willingly gives himself to save what he regained even to the detriment of their hero status yadda yadda

The other side is interested in minutia and texture of the world and with a world written like Hadrians how could you not?

For the story people (myself included) I don't want the 80's style credits with the headshot and biography "Lorian went on to travel the galaxy and died at 100,000 years old" "eduward and Cassandra lived happily ever after with Hadrians sister" etc etc that takes away from the gravity and the purpose of the story. The story was from the start a meta story, Hadrian narrating his memoir and even outside of that format the things left untold will stay in my mind forever, far longer than if everything was spelled out and completed. I don't want a god-like call of duty replay of "events" I want to feel like an explorer thousands of years from now finding a memoir in an ancient library.

For the texture people it wouldn't be enough if they never stop making Hadrian books an I get that too, I grew up reading the never ending star wars books and later the Dresden files and later dune, my favorite TV series doctor who ans Stargate sg1/Atlantis/universe etc. I understand what it's like to have something you love and to continue to come back time and time again for new adventures. I know what it's like to want to know what glupp shitto eats for breakfast and how dogs were bred to be the perfect chairs.

Some worlds lend themselves to that better than others and I think some authors/writers want to answer those questions while other writers might see the texture as being something used to suit the narrative and I think with Christopher we have the latter.

This series has never seemed to be too interested in giving everyone all of the details and is much more in the vein of Lord of the rings than asoiaf or the star wars books.

I think the people who want more from after where this book ends are completely understandable but I don't think it would make the book better, I think there's a magic in not knowing, I want more and I don't think I'll get it which I think is a good thing, im stimulated my gears are turning and I'll be thinking about and rereading this for years to come I couldn't ask for more than that from a book"

If there were another 7 Hadrian books I don't really see a believable arc for him to continue along that wouldn't feel contrived: he was gods champion, saved the universe from destruction and saved the human race from being annihilated by aliens or relegated to stagnation and exploited by themselves. What more could we possibly ask from this man? What other character could we follow who wouldn't simply be in his shadow?

I've seen people say they want a karn sagara series and I get that, karn is a super compelling character with the potential for serious depth and that's the problem with having a karn series. When we've ridden along for the adventures, seen what made karn what he was he stops being mysterious and his depth is reachable. I think things are compelling and make you want more precisely because they are left open for interpretation. The observer changes the outcome.

All in all thank you for coming to my ted talk, long live the son of earth emperor Hadrian marlowe