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4-28 The time has come

🕑 Added 2020-01-15 07:47:43 +0000 UTC

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ArturScott

thank you for explanation.

Why is the Father Abbot behaving the way he is? I have no way to explain this without spoilers. I can say he doesn’t believe he is evil, or even wrong. He believes he is doing what needs to be done, but has a much stronger motivation to help push him in the right direction. The dragons working with him are another thing. This last chapter with the red dragon and Lilly was meant to highlight something, Lilly wasn’t like the red even before she met Gersius. Something about Lilly is “special” but not unique to her alone. The arrival of Numidel and Sutherisa is going to begin shedding more light on this. These two have some important roles to play, and will help fill in a lot of the blanks about the dragons of the past. Also keep in mind that several divines aided Solesta. Of those divines, two were slain, but not all of them. Another key point is Sutehrisa naming the twelve divines. If you think back, our characters have named other divines besides them. There is a reason for this, and it’s key to the what is happening. Just keep in mind that there are a lot more divines than twelve. Lilly being able to have a child with a human is significant. This is seen by ancient dragons as the catalyst for the dragon war. This event happening in the past is why the war started in the first place. It is why the dragons are cursed, why vast areas of the north are wild lands, and why Ayawa’s people have almost nothing left of their history. All because a dragon became pregnant from a human. This is essentially an ancient sign of the apocalypse. Lilly will one day have to face the fact that she might be the cause of it starting again. This realization will be a turning point in her character growth. The raven guard exist because the Father Abbot can’t be questioned. He has the right to pardon any man of his “crimes” and call him redeemed. Once a man is redeemed the order is expected to treat them as if their past sins no longer exist. So he pardons the men who make up the raven guard thus preventing the rest of the order from “challenging” his decisions. However, many of them still do, or are at the very least wary of what is really going on. This is why Gersius isn’t finding it hard to turn the priests of Astikar to his cause. A few zealots hold out, but many have a strong distrust of the Father Abbot, and willingly switch to Gersius’s cause. You also have to keep in mind that this is a heavily indoctrinated order, with a strong chain of command. Many of the priests find it abhorrent to question their leadership. If the Father Abbot is doing something “questionable” he must have a good reason. There is an order of bishops in the ranks of Astikar who can challenge the Father Abbot, and even depose him if they find his actions to be out of order. The problem is these men didn’t act until the Father Abbot had sent most of the priest to fight in a distant war, while surrounding himself with a private army loyal only to him. Now they risk their lives to publicly challenge him. Keep in mind these are men like Lengwin. Men who do not carry weapons or fight. They are in no position to challenge the Father Abbot now. This doesn’t mean they aren’t working to do something about it. The dragon knights armor went missing after all. Why have the Doan stopped the attack? Why are the dragons helping the Father abbot? These two questions go hand in hand. All of this is working toward carefully planned moment that has to be done right. Gersius has already upset the time table by shattering a Doan army in the field. Unfortunately he didn’t have the strength to challenge two more. The Doan wanted to trap him and then move at a well calculated pace. His escape, and subsequent efforts to find a dragon have caused alterations to the plan. Gersius left instructions with trusted sub commanders on how to harass and delay the Doan while he looked for Lilly. These maneuvers worked to a certain degree, but in truth the Doan are waiting for a specific moment to occur. You will learn more about this in book 5 and 6. Gersius had another role to play in the grand scheme of things, but he has spoiled those plans. Now he is the thorn in the side of the ones in charge. The Doan wanted to draw the armies of the empire out and fight them in favorable ground. Now they have to cross a natural line of hills and canyons dotted with forts and fortified walls. They have a plan to defeat these defenses that is already underway. Speaking of Bandersooks, you’re right, they can send thousands of them, and in the next book you’re going to find out they already have. The shattered army is reformed and reinforced, and bandersooks are being used as terror weapons all across the back areas. Keep in mind though, the empire is not united. It has broken into a dozen or more small kingdoms, each of which has it’s own guards, militia, and military forces. Only a small portion of these forces has been sent to fight the Doan, and each Kingdom is still capable of fighting off a small bandersook invasion. This will make more sense when you read about the attacks. These too are happening for a reason. A key thing to keep in mind is the word Evil. This might be a small spoiler but the people working against Gersius are not necessarily evil. There is a motivation at play that is still hidden from sight. I have only lightly hinted at the wider picture twice. You would have to cross reference something Tavis and Ayawa learned with something Gersius and Lilly learned to begin to see it. There is a carefully orchestrated plan at play, and Gersius, Lilly, and Thayle are at the heart of it. You don’t know it yet but the enemy was expecting Thayle. They new she was coming, they just didn’t know who she was specifically. The enemy believed if they could kill Gersius, or Lilly, the prophecy would fail, but Thayle has changed their perspective. She is a wild card that they hoped to find before she moved against them. You will learn MUCH more about this in the next book. There is such a spoiler here, and I want to tell you sooooo badly! But I won’t. The original goal was to recruit Gersius, and use him to find the others. When efforts to subtly recruit him failed they planned to lure him out to fight the Doan and capture him. Then they could “wear” him down and convert him. They never expected him to shatter the army and drive it back. They also never expected him to spot the hastily improvised trap and flee it. Then he demanded to be allowed to go on his mission and the Father Abbot was put in a poor position. To deny Gersius would be a public breach of his authority. This would force the order to question the Father Abbot and spark an internal struggle when he wasn’t ready to fight one. The solution was simple, let Gersius go on his mission but fly ahead of him and recruit his dragon instead. She could then agree to help him and bring him into the fold. Unfortunately, Lilly wanted nothing to do with their plans and became and unpredictable as Gersius. So they tried to kill her and unwittingly delivered her to Gersius’s hands. The Father Abbot didn’t believe Gersius would die in the bandersook attack. He assumed Gersius would loose enough men that he would have to turn back. The shame of failure and the prospect of annihilation in the war would make him more pliable to be won over. The Father Abbot desperately wanted Gersius as an ally, not a foe. All in all there is much more going on than I have written about yet. There are people working behind the scenes you have not met yet, and there is one surprising person who isn’t what they seem. All of this starts to fall into place once Gersius marches on Calathen.

ArturScott

Hm one more thing, i've started to think about Father Abbot and his motivation, it's very strange cos i can't understend the logic behind his actions and as the story come along i have more questions and no answers i don't want any spoilers but it very confusing cos he is working with at list one dragon that we know of, so that dragon free of the curse if not he should be bound but i remember sceen when Father Abbot has a meeting with asasins man with coin and that dragon was intelegent so how it is that he is free of curse? Lady Carigara as i understan she is maybe a dragon too cos it was said several times that she went into the dark alone and everybody was surprised so i think she is a dragon too if so, again how it is that she is free of curse? Back to Father Abbot he is working against dragon empire and not alone,and we know that is has been like thoused years like somebody activliy sabotaging dragons knights and dragon empire but who? it's suppose to be some devine but Solesta is dead and i can't understand the logic why all that fuss was about dragons and human can have children now they can't exept for Lily but she is the only one, so why somebody is don't whant that, is strange. Father Abbot's last actons about kings, Ulustrah it's madness it looks like he has power to do whatevere hi wants and knowbody can do anithing everybody just watching and eats all that shit. Why nobody is asking him "what the hell is going on", why is raven gards is even existing if all "the good guys" knows what kind of people working at that division. What about war with Done (not sure i remember the name right) it was told that Father Abbot was helping them when Gersius was at war so why they stoped to attack? Why they didn't won that war already if they have a spy in the head of the main order who is protecting the kindoms against them? They just can send thouseds of bandersooks behind the borders and war was over... so many questions i understand that the story about Gersius, Lily and Thayle and magical relationships they have but still i need the logic behind actions of the "Evil" that wants to do something that i don't even know what, exept that it didn't want the dragon empire rise and dragons free of the curse.

ArturScott

Thanks for the chapter, i injoy your story but, i think it's sometimes lack of logic and you should pay attention to details, it's ok that you desided to take a break cos it's gonna do you good to have time to think about stroy and made it better cos it seems to me that about 5 chapters was kind of the same and story didn't develop i still like it but you need time to think it through. Do not get me wrong i didn't want to sound insultin or anyting just think it may help you to be better. And i still can't understand how people make so much damage to dragons with arrows and spears it's just don't make sense for me but i think i should blame GoT.

This is the end of book 4. I may take a week to get book 5, which is about 50% together more before I resume posting.


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