J C
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Over 1,500 answered questions (a few of them mine!) and no search function so far as I can tell ... but I re-read The Hallowed Hunt, and wanted to know if there was more to the erstwhile sorcerer and now petty saint of the Bastard Lewko's story (if I read the novel correctly)? I hope that they both knowingly sacrificed his demon in some grandiloquent act of heroism and sacrifice, instead of usual chaos run amok...TY!
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yeah, lack of a search function here is a trial. I've sometimes had luck using just plain old Google, plus enough assorted unique key words. Ferex, if you google "Was Shards of Honor ever a Star Trek fanfic?" it will take one to my posted Goodreads Q&A answer explaining no, not.
Anyway, back to the Five Gods. It was not, alas, grandiloquent heroism that lost Lewko his demon, it was overwork, trying to do too hard a job/jobs of uphill magic too fast until his demon violently rebelled. So, chaos run amok, but also misjudgment, mismanagement (by both Lewko and his seniors) and perhaps a touch of hubris. (Demons are not, generally, into self-sacrifice.)
The hard-learned humility that followed for Lewko probably had something to do with his later ability to channel his god, but I've never worked out the details.
Ta, L.
Yeah, lack of a search function here is a trial. I've sometimes had luck using just plain old Google, plus enough assorted unique key words. Ferex, if you google "Was Shards of Honor ever a Star Trek fanfic?" it will take one to my posted Goodreads Q&A answer explaining no, not.
Anyway, back to the Five Gods. It was not, alas, grandiloquent heroism that lost Lewko his demon, it was overwork, trying to do too hard a job/jobs of uphill magic too fast until his demon violently rebelled. So, chaos run amok, but also misjudgment, mismanagement (by both Lewko and his seniors) and perhaps a touch of hubris. (Demons are not, generally, into self-sacrifice.)
The hard-learned humility that followed for Lewko probably had something to do with his later ability to channel his god, but I've never worked out the details.
Ta, L.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yeah, lack of a search function here is a trial. I've sometimes had luck using just plain old Google, plus enough assorted unique key words. Ferex, if you google "Was Shards of Honor ever a Star Trek fanfic?" it will take one to my posted Goodreads Q&A answer explaining no, not.
Anyway, back to the Five Gods. It was not, alas, grandiloquent heroism that lost Lewko his demon, it was overwork, trying to do too hard a job/jobs of uphill magic too fast until his demon violently rebelled. So, chaos run amok, but also misjudgment, mismanagement (by both Lewko and his seniors) and perhaps a touch of hubris. (Demons are not, generally, into self-sacrifice.)
The hard-learned humility that followed for Lewko probably had something to do with his later ability to channel his god, but I've never worked out the details.
Ta, L.
Yeah, lack of a search function here is a trial. I've sometimes had luck using just plain old Google, plus enough assorted unique key words. Ferex, if you google "Was Shards of Honor ever a Star Trek fanfic?" it will take one to my posted Goodreads Q&A answer explaining no, not.
Anyway, back to the Five Gods. It was not, alas, grandiloquent heroism that lost Lewko his demon, it was overwork, trying to do too hard a job/jobs of uphill magic too fast until his demon violently rebelled. So, chaos run amok, but also misjudgment, mismanagement (by both Lewko and his seniors) and perhaps a touch of hubris. (Demons are not, generally, into self-sacrifice.)
The hard-learned humility that followed for Lewko probably had something to do with his later ability to channel his god, but I've never worked out the details.
Ta, L.
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Laura
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
(I keep bumping into the character limit!) After finishing The Hallowed Hunt, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I couldn't help but wonder how Ingrey and Ijada got along. Wencel had, at one point, offered to teach Ingrey if he'd but come visit him at his home, where he kept his library. Novel events went quite differently, of course. Is that knowledge something Ingrey and Ijada will ever find?
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