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The last minute evacuation abs traffic jam of Talagray reminds me of Katrina.

Welp.

If the leviathans have the faces of men “hidden away, in their underbellies” I have a strange theory; the ancient Khanum became the leviathans. Or sacrifices some of their own to the leviathans, maybe.

“But then the Empire got good at making money, and then they went and got it in everything, even here. Got big, got complex.”

Miljin talks like the retired colonels and CSMs I know.

We love an investigator who respects the common laborer.

Oooh, Kepheus — like the father of Andromeda? Is that more mythological symbolism I see 👀

“Someplace where my family would hang more walls between them and the titans, where they would be safe.”

Everywhere I go, I still hear Eren Jaeger’s voice.

Kol, living in a constant state of anxiety about the wet season and the Empire, resonates with me, a citizen of America in 2026.

“My master quite literally lived between books, often using them as a desk and nightstand. She even had to carve out a little cavern in them for her bed.”

She’s just like me, fr fr

Me, already Pepe Silvia-ing after reading the phrase “Holy Empire of Khanum.”

Khanum sounds like Khnum, an Egyptian god of waters. The series is called “Shadow of the Leviathan.” Leviathan is a sea serpent.

I’ve connected the dots, and all I saw was the insert about military ranks.

(I probably didn’t connect s—)