Interlude - The Revenant and the Naga
I've done it! A short* chapter! (19,400 Words)
*Not really.
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Comments (8)
Although I'm keenly worried about our bird stolen hero ... will we get a smidgen of an idea of where he is currently?
Eeesh -- the Naga is so creepy to me... Not the scales part but the mindwashing basement upon basement upon basement. Oo *shudder*
I enjoyed this in part as a breather from the inn melancholy, which started to feel a little unrelenting to me. Characterisation of Roshar felt fine, didn't read any endorsement of slavery, I'd expect a culture founded on it to manifest it in lots of (differently) monstrous ways. Will be interested to see where it goes.
A whataboutism aims to derail an inconvenient topic by pointing out other evils. What he is doing is false equivalence as persuasion. Exactly how false the equivalence is is also not clear. The tsars prided themselves in not owning slaves, yet Serfs where bound to the land and were killed for leaving or refusing to work it. While serfs could not generally be sold directly, the land they worked could be. The evil slavery and well as feudal societies wreak lies as much in the deformed conscience it creates as anything else. Tying the right to abuse to property or blood does not matter much, it's the very idea that prevents good societal institutions from forming. There are really only two characters from terandira we have seen much about. One is Lynette, the other Perill, neither is exactly a moral paragon and if you said they were from a serf style feudal society, it would not surprise me. .
This last chapter felt like another book to be honest, like something old that didn't make the cut the first time, dusted off and just edited a bit to add something to tie it to the rest in some way, hope it doesn't make to the audio book version, cause I don't go easy on audio books that disapoint
" He wished they would make more of themselves," I read this exactly right and yet horribly wrong on first pass xD
The snake king left mad test in my mouth.No matter how much the author Drew him in flowery background or say he is not that bad. The undead king was fun to read but it was dark chapter. And hold earth people didn’t help it. Kaven .2
At least they are physically well taken care of, for now. Mentally and emotionally, however... I wonder how many he has in captivity and it didn't sound like any of them have been *broken in* just yet, unless Kent has exceptional resilience compared to his peers.