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The phrase “…racist blood mages” feels rather modern, though not inaccurate.

Back when the Crows could be portrayed as cruel.

The Streets of Minrathous

• Not a lot to say about this one. I did find it interesting how an extremist group can break down into different factions.

• Idk if it’s my opinions on Neve filtering through, or the fact that I’ve read so much Dresden Files that mage detectives are held to a high standard, but the noir vibe didn’t click.

I wish we saw these “mage-based justicars” in DATV

“…because she was a mage no longer chained to any Circle of Magi…”

So the Mortalitasi aren’t so much a branch of the Circle as they are the Circle within Nevarra

Hunger

• This felt like an homage to Origins. Grey Wardens being heroes, doing thankless work. The presence of werewolves and hunger demons, conspicuously absent from later games.

Luck in the Gardens

• Feketuky writes weird really well— the oddities of the Necropolis, the eldritch Cekorax.

• The Lovecraft influence is strong, with first person narration and a thing from beyond the world breaching in.

• Also, thematically loved the idea of Hollix, a master of disguise, going against a creature that absorbs others’ physiognomy.

It’s not just mages who can earn their freedom. It’s anyone with at sufficient talent, seems like.

“…a Lord of Fortune’s got to have some standards that sets them apart from common glory-seekers, and that’s one for me.”

I do love the idea that the Lords have a morality, but it’s a personal code of ethics rather than a faction-wide one. Fits the rag-tag pirate idea.

Callback

• Personally, I found it hard to keep track of the action with so many perspective shifts between each paragraph

• Harritt, Dagna, and Cabot’s cameos were great. I feel Elan and Morris’ simply didn’t have as strong a personality in DAI, so their return doesn’t have the same effect.

• Possibly a prelude to the regret prison? At least thematically?

• The last lines 💯