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Chapter 58

🕑 Added 2024-08-09 04:21:39 +0000 UTC

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Fusckurself

True that. I’ve asked for ONE double chapter once we are in Asphodel but it FEELS like every chapter is twice as pronounced as stuff from Sholomance

Fusckurself

In a classic rpg he would just straight join the group.

Jacob Burton-Edwards

I like big busts and I cannot lie...

Jacob Burton-Edwards

That would be disappointing at this point. I want him to be the eternal asshole who is nonetheless usually down for a good fight.

Jacob Burton-Edwards

And do they have wierd neck ridges?

Jacob Burton-Edwards

I mean, it did eat the inheritance of her entire murdered civilization, the only thing she has of the people she once loved. Then it destabilized her only source of leverage over a world explicitly racist against her, causing even more people to act racistly against her. Then it murdered three people apparently for fun. Treating it as a hostile entity bound to her soul is entirely reasonable. That's what it is.

Evri

We have this from Book One: > That the Republics might not endorse [the Yellow Earth’s] actions but equally refused to denounce them was one of the reasons Tianxia was so often at war with its neighbours. It’s also come up that there are a lot of Yellow Earth members in the Ministry of Rites, and that the Yellow Earth has tried and failed to get certain books banned in various Republics.

Severin Schramm

For some reason I always imagined Tupoc to get a redemption and turn into another member

Severin Schramm

Have we learned any details on the relationship between Tianxi government and the Yellow Earth? I wonder how much they are intelligence agency and how much quasi-religious sect.

Poop McScoop

Nah, think about how much Song has talked about filial piety and duty. This has all the makings of a tragedy. Song will offer him the option, but he won't take it. He's going to be unable to let go, and thus be a foil to Song while reinforcing the theme of letting the past go. All of the characters have been set up to make that decision, and most of them are hurting people around them because they can't do it yet.

Runaway_Cactuar

It would be so funny if all of these treason plots screw over one another, leaving Evander on the throne with a shocked pikachu face~

Rune of Doom

I had the same hope, but what this chapter seemed to make clear to me was that while we the readers saw it as likely more than a simple parasite, Maryam was not able to look at it that way until just now.

Lewis

Looking back, the warehouse the Yellow Earth pointed our gang at was owned by the Anaidons, and Song described that as a pretty clear attempt to distract from the tianxi assassin. This mostly makes me distrust the contract initials entirely.

Skeys13

I’m really hoping this is an E.E. special and the name of the leader of one of the coup attempts is a pseudonym used by the current Rector.

Lewis

I think the only H.A. we've met so far is Hector Anaidon, with the boon of health, in Song's first sniffer session. Doesn't match the idea of the nobles VS the merchants though, unless there's a deeper level. A is also Arkol and Anastos of course, with Anastos being the most likely.

AsuraKyoko

I hope so

Dominic Corbin

Angharad wants big booms (and bosoms)

Lewis

They have to go back at least long enough for Tristan to properly learn how to kill a god.

Jacob Burton-Edwards

Fuck yeah

Lewis

Very nice position the Watch is about to find themselves in here... set the merchants against the noble coup to save Palliades, set Palliades against the tianxi because they're backing the merchants, Palliades falls in line for the blackcloaks, so they can use the shipyard to get at the god behind the noble coup... it still remains to figure out how our set of gods (odyssean, oduromai, the hated one, and the golden ram) have juggled their various masks, but I bet that will also reveal the assassin, which'll tie things back to the 19th and the ivory library. I would actually bet the 13th only gets *one* new member in this book, which bodes poorly for poor Evander as Izel's star rises, but none of the above loop indicates what Locke and Key have been doing for him, so! He has his own treasons to be going about.

Warbler

That skimmer has "in between missions hub" written all over it

Oliver Schell

Looks like it's gonna be war on the streets. I wonder if members of the watch are banned from insider trading? Because now is the time to stock up on liquidity and get ready to buy some Asphodelian stocks.

Warbler

Two things can be true though, he can live to fight another day. Narratively song's problem with him is that he can't possibly be a good man because there are no good kings... Unless he were to voluntarily give up his kingdom for some reason. The shape of it fits in the story.

Joe Rachman

My dear friends, I have a confession to make. Some creative reframing of the truth may have taken place during the planning of this coup against House Palliades...

Ryu

See thats why I hoped Maryam would be more careful and less ornery towards her shade. For one, an unknowable amount of precious knowledge would be lost if she continues to devour it as is. And also it’s been heavily hinted that it’s not a simple parasite, especially when Locke said something about that it’s been a while since he saw someone argue with *herself* so fiercely… Well I hope that she’ll be more careful after this.

Ryu

Palliades leaving Asphodel and taking the black would be a reach imo. It would be like if Song were to renounce her name and identity as a Ren and just move on to live a decent life working as a sniffer when it becomes impossible to bear. He has his own battles to fight and his own ambitions to achieve, I think him abandoning them just like that would be too… shallow. But you never know for sure with EE I guess, so imma just trust him to cook

Draken09

I need to start *expecting* these chapters to take me over an hour to read. Eh, the lack of sleep is worth it.

Joe Rachman

Yeah am very willing to bet Evander goes into exile in the Watch. But Song will definitely then shag him

Evri

Yaretzi, the trial-taker who tried to assassinate Angharad in Book One, was a member of the Obsidian Order (though then it was called the Obsidian Society).

Calle

I mean, IT is a box!

Rune of Doom

6/6. They're going to need an aether mechanic to maintain that engine, and Izel is _right there_.

Rune of Doom

Oh, and did I miss it, or is this the first time we've heard of the Obsidian Order? And is it's full name by any chance The Order of the Unholy Obsidian?

Aguido Horatio Davis

So it looks like the Thirteenth have found their tinker.

MouseThatJumps

*snorts cocaine* Alright so it all goes to shit, Evander is due to be killed by his many enemies but Song saves his life...by convincing him to renounce his titles and take the black as a member of the 13th. Song saves his life and kills their romance in the same instant as she is too much the consummate professional to consummate a relationship with a subordinate. The 13th goes up to 5/6 members teased in the totally canon banner art and gains a skilled diplomat in the process. They escape on the skimmer and instead of returning to Scholomance they're emergency reassigned to some other task out in Vesper. Because really I love Scholomance but narratively I doubt they're going back for long, if at all.

Mark W

Angharad is not beating the allegations, using explosives to get past a trapped door.

Mag1cM

Slaps roof of City - This bad boy can fit so much treason in it!

Markos El-Far

We have Malan and the ministers looking to set up shop and destroy the workshop. We have Yellow Earth and the subtle support of Tianxia looking to become a naval superpower. We have the Grasshopper King’s quiet approval for the Obsidian Order to try and kill Evander. Even more fun, we have a bleeding God, a rampaging God, and an assassin God all working to unknown ends. This is gonna be the shitshow of shitshows

vy

i feel like i just got fed a full course meal

MouseThatJumps

They are so getting that skimmer.

awakeatdawn

Asphodel translated turns out to be "clown car" the way it manages to fit so many treasons.

Rune of Doom

Wow. I'm in awe of this chapter. Everything about it is just amazing. So much building, so many little pieces coming together... and still so much we don't quite know. But.. anyone want to take wagers on whether the 13th ends up with a certain skimmer?