Oh, thank you! I understand #2 now! But #1 still eludes me. So, to my understanding, Eddis, Gen, and Attolia all conspired against him so that he'd swear Sounis to Gen--yes? So that Eddis would also have to swear loyalty to marry, and therefore have an official reason to relocate her people? Why couldn't Eddis and Sophos marry without Gen's permission? I honestly don't understand why Eddis has to marry Sounis (the uncle or Sophos) in order to save her people...Man, I don't understand what the ultimate goal of Gen et al is! Is it to be unified and have Gen as annux? Or is it to save the country of Eddis from the eruption? Help. And also, in the end, Sounis did end up needing Gen's troops, didn't he? How else could he have survived 10,000 Medes? "Believing he needed it"--who's doing the believing? Sophos or Gen and Eddis?
Man, I don't know about you guys, but I felt incredibly sad after this book. Especially with the mystery of Gen's health. I always expected Gen to come out on top, especially after his performance in KoA. But now I'm not so sure that MWT won't kill him off...Even if it is heroic. I want to end this series grinning, not crying.
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Date: 5/18/11 01:34 am (UTC)But #1 still eludes me. So, to my understanding, Eddis, Gen, and Attolia all conspired against him so that he'd swear Sounis to Gen--yes? So that Eddis would also have to swear loyalty to marry, and therefore have an official reason to relocate her people? Why couldn't Eddis and Sophos marry without Gen's permission? I honestly don't understand why Eddis has to marry Sounis (the uncle or Sophos) in order to save her people...Man, I don't understand what the ultimate goal of Gen et al is! Is it to be unified and have Gen as annux? Or is it to save the country of Eddis from the eruption? Help.
And also, in the end, Sounis did end up needing Gen's troops, didn't he? How else could he have survived 10,000 Medes? "Believing he needed it"--who's doing the believing? Sophos or Gen and Eddis?
Man, I don't know about you guys, but I felt incredibly sad after this book. Especially with the mystery of Gen's health. I always expected Gen to come out on top, especially after his performance in KoA. But now I'm not so sure that MWT won't kill him off...Even if it is heroic. I want to end this series grinning, not crying.