Bacon Macleod
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Slight additions to chapter 461
🕑 Added 2026-01-30 02:29:49 +0000 UTCRR is getting to the Castellan reveal, and I noticed I never actually mentioned how the Castellan identified him through his blood lol. Added a small section, as seen below
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As his friends joined him, the Castellan crouched down once more. Though this time, it kept its hand on its sword, presumably to maintain whatever skill was protecting them from the arcane mana.
“First, an answer to your earlier question, my lord,” the Castellann said. “Your blood. There are biological markers present in all beings, but over significant spans of time they are…unsuitable for determining House lineage. Sympathetic resonance is far more important. Blood calls to blood; an unbreakable bond that can be felt, with the right capabilities. Unterstern was more than aware of this, and prepared…contingencies.”
“Contingencies?” Kaius questioned.
Rather than answer, the automaton gestured to Kaius’s sword.
“Your blade is most fascinating. There were multiple different scripts involved in its construction, and as simplistic as they are, the work is masterful. There is even a derivative of the sovereign star built into the binding. That above all proves your claim.”
“Excuse me?” Kaius replied. What was that — and how did it relate to what the automaton was saying about his blood?
When the Castellan responded, Kaius could have sworn he heard a hint of delight in its otherwise even voice.
“The greatest achievement of the House of Creation, and the very same mechanism through which I recognised you. It is a lordship, and a divine right to rule, built into my very marrow — into all critical infrastructure that Unterstern had its personal, unminded, unmonitored hands in creating and designing. No one else had the knowledge, or the mastery, to find its far-flung presence in their works.”
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MrDragondude5
i thought that was always possible just difficult
Talmor
Thanks
matt lowther
Does that mean he can figure out the sovereign star through the binding?
