Bryan Sabula’s Reviews > Kingdoms of Death > Status Update

Pallino, otavia, and every member of the red company is dead, all ninety thousand, butchered on Eue, the planet of the cielcin. By the skin of their teeth, Hadrian and valka barely escaped.

Dorayaica is something else now, with silver blood. Hadrian wounded him, and was rescued (?) by many of his old crew. Bastien Durand, elara, and crim are now dead.

Marlowe had a vision in which he saw the enar and their suicde ritual. There was a grand procession to the skull/temple. Dorayaica summoned all the aeta, bringing Hadrian. He proceeded to wipe them out with a gas poison.

They have made it to akterumu, the great city in which Hadrian foresaw his death. The other aeta of the cielcin are coming to pay tribute and submit to dorayaica.

The cielcin feasted.

Hadrian has been tortured, brutalized. I had thought the misery of Darrow in the box and the beginning of Morning star was bad, but this is so much worse.

Marlowe is back in prison. This time it’s aboard syriani dorayaica’s worldship, at least I think.

The lothrian commonwealth betrayed Hadrian and tried to kill/capture him. It’s unknown what happened to the rest of the crew, whether they escaped or not, but Marlowe was captured. Now he is being sold to the cielcin.