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Tales of the Forgotten God #3
The Everlasting Child
The exciting conclusion to the Tales of the Forgotten God trilogy. The beggar king is dead. His followers have fled the city to escape King Fame and his soldiers. But the only way to go forward is to go back to the beginning--to follow a road of old promises made new. And at the beginning, there is a child. Will this group reach Glory ahead of King Fame? Will they trust the road of promise?
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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March 15, 2023
I really liked the finale because, although at times it threatened to be an allegory and thus slavishly predictable, it always managed to sidestep that into a genuine fantasy - and thus, in the oldest, truest sense be an epiphany (from which the word "fantasy" comes) of truth revealed.
There was a free-floating sense that the silent Child represented the Holy Spirit, yet that sense was never tangible enough or explained enough for the mystery to be diluted. The death of the Beggar King, Covenant, in the fight with Fame (a contest in which he substitutes for Dreadnought Freeblade who has been injured) results in the flight of the company from the House of Covenant from the tawdry city of Glory. They find refuge in a most unexpected place.
The drawing together of the threads from the previous books is very satisfying. And of course the reiteration about naming: "Covenant taught us that people and their names go together." "He who names a thing has power over it. So it is with kings and their subjects, with parents and their children, and even children and their kittens."
The occasional dropping of a profound insight is a real bonus:
- it is better to trust a man of misplaced loyalty than a man of no loyalty at all
- when a person has done great evil and great good in life, one does not outweigh the other; that is not the balance by which the universe is judged.
There was a free-floating sense that the silent Child represented the Holy Spirit, yet that sense was never tangible enough or explained enough for the mystery to be diluted. The death of the Beggar King, Covenant, in the fight with Fame (a contest in which he substitutes for Dreadnought Freeblade who has been injured) results in the flight of the company from the House of Covenant from the tawdry city of Glory. They find refuge in a most unexpected place.
The drawing together of the threads from the previous books is very satisfying. And of course the reiteration about naming: "Covenant taught us that people and their names go together." "He who names a thing has power over it. So it is with kings and their subjects, with parents and their children, and even children and their kittens."
The occasional dropping of a profound insight is a real bonus:
- it is better to trust a man of misplaced loyalty than a man of no loyalty at all
- when a person has done great evil and great good in life, one does not outweigh the other; that is not the balance by which the universe is judged.
December 5, 2020
Great story, really good twist on what we know from another profit. Well done Dan Hamilton.
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