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“She had always belonged here with insatiable men, her brothers in greed and ego.”

“Maybe all this ruin had been a necessary sacrifice for the truth. Maybe choosing this destruction made Sciona as bad as the archmages who claimed Kwen life as a necessary sacrifice for their ends. Maybe it was as Thomil said, and actions would be weighed at heavens gate without intent in the balance. Regardless, everyone in this car was headed for hell.”

Bringham is like to repent and to make my heart better regarding the mass sterilization of women I shall raise a high mage and that somehow makes it equal.

“The prescribed good taste of these halls made sense now that Sciona understood that her mentor was a shell—a void wearing the skin of a gentle man who might have existed once, before he learned the truth and hollowed his soul to bear it.”

“Sciona wondered if this is how the mutual history of Tiran and Kwen had fallen so far out of public consciousness, washed out a little more with each coat of paint.”

Posting my quotes here so I can put them for my review as I’m not annotating. BUT DAMN SHE SNAPPED. “She hadn’t had the physical strength to make Renthorn pay for shaming her. She had just let it happen. But somehow was going to bleed, Feryn damn it, and nothing bled like a mage’s ego.”

“They did what a man was suppose to: they revered and obeyed the men above them, pursued greatness in the model of their predecessors, and, in the end, they were rewarded with power, acclaim, and dominion over lesser beings—a small godhood of their own” ———the author devoured with her analogies🤩🤩

The thing is that I feel for Sciona. It’s not easy to have your world come crashing down, To learn that what you once were nurtured for and grew up learning with reverence was inherently evil. But Not only that, but the building block of this society didn’t care and continued carrying this farce for generations instead of curbing it or finding solutions. Cannot help but draw parallels to modern exploitation.

HOLD ON HOLD ON. so Saberyn who killed his fellow mages by using the forbidden coordinates actually just used the blight on them!!!!?

OMG YOUE TELLING ME THEY OTHERWORLD IS JUST THE WORLD BEYOND THE BARRIER AND THEY USED BLACK AND WHITE TO OBSCURE REALITY AND THE RANDOM SELECTED ENERGY POINTS COULD BE PLANTS, ANIMALS OR HUMANS. WTF. SO THEY ARE KILLING LIFE TO FUEL SPELLS AND CONDUITS?!?!!?!!!?

Is it crazy to assume that maybe the blight started cause Leon took the magic or for better words stole it from its original place. Missing magic or constantly used magic from a misplaced place causes the original land to developed the blind ??!!!!!

In love with this world and character and the way I can see correlation of this behaviour in academia is crazy. It's like the more acclaimed the men are the more egotistical they are.

Not to mention the crazy magic system resembling coding!!!

I’m dying trying to finish this book. Someone save me.