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Normally he could sense his mentor’s footfalls through the ground and get his act together, but today . . . today was all kinds of off-balance.

Waitttt, so is this Yun can use Toph' seismic sense?

“. . . So the most efficient course of action would be to surprise the leader—Aoma, was it?—alone somewhere and then destroy her so messily that it sends a message to the others not to bother you anymore. Are you listening to me?”

Lmao I loveee Rangi!! Also is Kyoshi gay?? I think she is 👀👀

Lu Beifong had read the trigrams, King Buro of Omashu gave it a shot, Neliao the Gardener took her turn.

I screamed when I read the name Beifong!!! OMG I hope we meet one of Toph ancestors and I NEED them to be badass too!!!

I see Eidhin has descended after me. He’s staring. At first I think it’s at Ysa, but then I realise his gaze is fixed behind, over my shoulder.
For the first time since the Iudicium, I see him smile.
And before I can turn, before I can process it, the familiar voice emerges from the murmurs behind. Wry, and quiet, and utterly perplexed.
“Hail, Vis.”

CALLIDUS??!!! AND HIS MOM AND SISTER HOLY SHIT!!

“A great, independent machine made up of the dead. Interlinked, each one carefully purposed. More vast and complex and impossible to fight than you can imagine.”

Omg this reminds me of foundry side trilogy alot!!! Especially THIS plot line

“But Vis? It was also because you came. You came on two broken legs, and you asked. You would not have forced me to stop, but you were willing to strip yourself bare to save me. You reminded me that we are not friends. You are my brother . My kin. To abandon you to the right and narrow path …”

I loveeee Eidhin.

“Yes. Well. I assumed the other versions of me never made it. I was never able to do anything like that.” He gestures to my glinting arm. “I am fortunate, in many ways. If they had survived, I may never have learned the truth. I would have been hunted. As I had to do with you.”

I don't trust this guy! Honestly from his name which sound so much like Caesar it did feel weird that he was THAT nice on obiteum

And then my friends are around me. Forming a protective circle. Heads bowed, close to mine. Arms around me. And I let go. I cry. I cry for the father I thought I lost years ago but now have in truth. I cry in a way I never did after Suus, because I was never afforded a chance to say goodbye. And saying goodbye like this hurts. It hurts . My friends hold me up. Patient. Just being there.

There are no tears, no wailing, but those would have been false given that they did not know the man. This display is for the living. This display is for me. It means more than I can say. It brings tears to my eyes again and again as we make our steady way down the hill and out the gate.

Luceum Vis' life is the best one in my opinion

NOOOO DONT JUST KILL KA AND MOVE ON WTF??!!!!

Diago!!!!

They know we value loyalty and family and friendship above all else. But my friend, they don’t, and there will always be people for them to hurt. To threaten us with. As long as we let ourselves be their prisoners, nothing will change. and in the end, they will destroy the ones we love anyway,

But if I don’t try, I’ll never forgive myself. I cannot lose him. Not him too.

Yes you can't lose him Vis!! Bcuz I swear to God I'd hunt you down!!! Eidhin can not die.

Courage, he adds. Still smiling.
Then he lets go, the light gone from his eyes.

💔💔💔

“Well here are the consequences. My friend was killed less than an hour ago. Her head was crushed by a Tertius. Some of that is my fault. A lot of that is my fault. But she would still be with me right now if it were not for your gods-damned war.”

That's cold!!!!

This cannot be happening. My friend’s face is crumpled between his fingers. Her dark, straight hair molten with crimson in the dying light of the day. Decimus releases her. Flicks blood and brain off his hand as her body crumples to the ground, watching me the entire time.

NOOOOOO THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN

“Gods’ graves. You’re actually looking forward to this, aren’t you?”
She rolls onto her side, lounging as she gazes up at me. “A prison break with the great Catenicus? Rotting gods, yes. Eidhin is going to be so jealous , and I am going to bring it up constantly .”

Lmaooo

I know I already ask the impossible, but I ask for one more miracle. Help him without betraying him. Save my son without destroying his desire to be saved.

I'm honestly so confused like not about THIS but the time line he did say it been two weeks or something which makes no sense bcuz wtf??? Howwww??

How can he be unworthy when he's synchronous??

“A society cannot make a man a monster, Diago. But it can give him the excuse to become one.”

Before I can even process the incongruity, the impossibility of hearing that tongue again, he turns. Smiles at me. I stop. Mind blank. Unable to understand what I’m seeing. Unable to trust myself enough to believe. “Hail, Diago,” says my father.

Holy shit!!!!!!! How did he know tho? Like how did he father know Vis will cross over omg shit just got 10 times more interesting

I am on my knees. Diago tears another throat effortlessly. Snaps a neck. He stalks around the room with deliberate, terrifying efficiency. In the background, I can hear Ostius laughing.


Ohhh Vis 😭

They are completely within my power. They are pitiful and they are dangerous and they most certainly deserve to die for their confessed crimes. My hatred boils. My rage trembles.
And yet, through it, my father’s voice echoes. The power to protect is the highest responsibility.
Ostius wants me to kill them. That alone says I should not.

Good!! You are going the right thing Vis

I know what I want. I could spend the rest of my life chasing the ghosts of my past. The mysteries of what has happened to me. But I have a real life, here. Now. With these people.
I am not going to let go of that.
“No.”
And something changes.

Vis' Res and obiteum are soo gonna fuck up this perfect life he's having in Luceum

“So this is … one of the other worlds.” It seems obvious that’s what he’s saying, but I need to hear it.

Yeah being in Luceum is easier to navigate than getting him to obiteum but srsly who the fuck is this guy? And is he synchronis too?? Why can't HE defeat Ka then??

A small strip of white cloth, and a robe of linen so sheer and light it is almost invisible. “What’s this?” “What the dancers wear. Netiqret got it. Better to become accustomed to it now than later.” I examine the attire in silence. Hold up the strip of white. “This is for?” “Your hips.” I let it dangle, indicating its length. “It is not meant to be modest.”

Can't believe he's actually doing this 😂

“Perhaps there’s an easier dance I can try?”
“You know, there is,” Ahmose says. “It is normally performed by women, but occasionally men do it as well. It would make you very popular.” He starts to demonstrate, moving his body suggestively and then abruptly shaking his belly at me.

The way I'm picturing Vis it will be soo laughable to see him dance like that

When I finish, Conor shifts. Comes to sit beside me and puts an arm around my shoulder. “You are here now,” he says softly. “We are all with you, brother.” Seanna smiles. Tara and Fearghus nod. And I know I am home.


Damnnnn well it took him getting to a whole new world to finally find home

And yet impossible to mistake. Even as I stand there, breath short and disbelieving, I cannot help but know it.
He reminded me exactly of my father.

Oh my god!!! Did his father try Synchronism??? 😱

Callidus, Eidhin, Aequa. Emissa. They were my friends, despite everything. A strange feeling, to know they must consider me dead. To know they will have searched and grieved and are probably now moving on with their lives in Caten. I imagine what they’re doing right now. I wish I could have been honest with them.

Am I the only one who was so convinced he was gonna meet Eidhin in Luceum??