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and then it hit me: could it be...is...is Geder an antagonist in this series? :o

picking sides is hard but can't help but root for Geder anyways :)

“...If justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible. We’re seeing the first of them now. More will come.”

phew, now i can breathe a little. Tense couple of chapters.

“If I stay, what will I need to be prepared for? Will this come to violence?”
“It will.”
So much is happening already.

At this point if I were a noble in the Antean Court and Geder looked at me a second longer than usual fk it i'm out. Take my lands take everything, i'm heading all the way south to the Free Cities

“Listen to my voice,” the priest said. “You will not fail. We are servants of the truth and the goddess. What we tell you is true. Their men cannot stand against you. They will fail.”

This has been fun so far!

I love how Geder can go from innocent and guileless to: “You’ve just lied to me twice, Lord Ambassador. If you do it again, I’m sending your hands back to Asterilhold in their own box. Do you understand me?”

“Simeon wants me to keep Aster safe and make peace with King Lechan. I told him I would.”
“Ah,” Basrahip said. And a moment later, “And when you cannot do both, which will you choose?”

“Wars are easier to start than end, and where they take you is rarely where you intended to go,” the ambassador said. “It will be better for all of us to avoid it.”