Whag do you think about the new lore?
Xirkaali Empire is a whole new bunch of lore.
New species, cultures and parts of the map.
Plus Uraeus from Ophidia still seem to be around and hated by the hemicyons
I wonder if hemicyons and Rankin will have skme kind oc kinship from their similar origins?
I don’t see Imperial Dwarfs submitting to the Xirkaali Empire, but don’t see much reason for the two empires to fight if they agree to leave each other alone.
It’s adding to an opening for Ophidia to be added down the line.
Xirkaali give you a chance to submit and join the empire or they destroy you. Can’t see many factions submitting so war it is. However they aren’t evil.
Ratkin surely won’t ever want to be dominated again and have already been fleeing west.
I think the Dwarf books will ultimately say more on the state of the 3 dwarves factions. But halpi and the rift maybe more of a priority for xirkaali. They look like they use witches to shut down magic?
Elf background story will be fleshed out when they get the mantic ip which we may have had a snippet in this build up.
The vampiric shogunate briefly mentioned in twilight kin politics secions maybe appear down the line?
I’m very curious about these guys their gods.
*Sidurgu and Sokhatai “Four-who-are-two.” * Wonder what they could be.
Maybe two of the progenitor gods doing the same thing Korgaan is doing, a botched attempt by Shinning and Wicked ones merging like the Green Lady did or something else? I doubt it are Gods from the Void.
I’m curious about Sidurgu and Sokhatai, the Four-Who-Are-Two – revealed themselves and forbade magic too
My guess would be celestians who pulled themselves together after the split, to some extent, and then decided that enough of mortals with magic.
Good shout, 2 celestians that were on the far side pannithor near xirkaali empire is located that they were able to hide escape the split.
Well the naming definitely points to Celestians - and there are still plenty of unnamed ones, both Shining and Wicked halves, floating around.
Okay so rather big reveal in todays short story.
Turns out the Northern Alliance are guarding a Celestian. Azuon The Oracle.
I thought it was going to be Winters Shining One counterpart but this is quite the surprise.
While we were guessing something like a celestial of shining aspect. A new character is a surprise.
My guesses were all names already in the lore.
It’s a little sad that they’ve ignored all the existing characters to add another, again.
The “white pylon” is curious?
It sounds like Azuon is trapped and/or being protected from the split by some structure.
The background states there were 60 Celestians - 3 are definitely dead/no longer exists, one remains intact (the green lady) and the others split into shining/wicked halves.
Only about a dozen Celestians are named and not all of those have their S/W halves identified - similarly there are S/W ones given names/titles without specifying the Celestian they split from.
So while not named before, Azuon could have been floating around somewhere in the background.
[FYI - only recorded reference to Azuon is for a cheap flights search engine! Wonder if Matt G had been planning a holiday 
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