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-->"I haven't ''killed'' Naberius Tern. I ''ate'' Naberius Tern. I put a sword through his heart to pin his soul in place. Then I took it into my body. I've robbed death itself...I have drunk up the substance of his immortal soul. And now I will burn him and burn him and burn him, and he will never really die.
-->"I haven't ''killed'' Naberius Tern. I ''ate'' Naberius Tern. I put a sword through his heart to pin his soul in place. Then I took it into my body. I've robbed death itself...I have drunk up the substance of his immortal soul. And now I will burn him and burn him and burn him, and he will never really die.
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* The ''thing'' that possessed Colum the Eigth Eighth back in ''Gideon the Ninth'' was horrifying. Turns out that there are a whole lot more of them, and that they can also possess ''anyone'', living or dead, and not just empty bodies like Colum's. The empire was fighting them on Antioch, but have now spread to the Empire, unleashing a full-fledged ZombieApocalypse. With the nickname "devils" and the way Varun refers to them as coming from the Tower in the river and mentions "a hole at the bottom of their tower", it's strongly implied that the devils come from [[{{Hell}} whatever lies beyond the stoma]].
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* Nona's third tantrum. It ''starts'' with her screaming so loudly she tears her own throat open and gets worse from there, with her escaping her bindings by pulling at them so hard that ''her hand and ankles come off and regenerate'', bashing down the door with her bare hands, and assaulting the Blood of Eden guards so violently that We Suffer later notes that no one is willing to come close to Nona even after she's calmed down.
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* Nona's third tantrum. It ''starts'' with her screaming so loudly she tears her own throat open and gets worse from there, which with her escaping her bindings by pulling at them so hard that ''her hand and ankles come off and regenerate'', bashing down the door with her bare hands, and assaulting the Blood of Eden guards so violently that We Suffer later notes that no one is willing to come close to Nona doesn't care about because even after she's too angry to pay attention to pain.calmed down.
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* The whole of the John chapters is the story of his ascension, told by him, so it might take you a bit to realize, but by the end it's impossible to not understand that John was handed the power of the Earth by Alecto and rather than use it to try and save the planet and its people, he wiped out the entire solar system and everyone in it, out of spite for them not using his solution to the problem.
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!! Chapter 22
* ''That'' scene with Cytherea's body:
--> That walk! That shuffling, disconcerting, slithering walk! The body flung its arms before it for momentum, the legs stiff-thighed and lock-kneed, right-side arm moving in time with right-side leg, ridiculous, appalling. Those fixed dead fingers caught a skeletal arm wrapped in gold foil, amethysts studded like so many eyes between the knucklebones, and it clattered to the ground, and Cytherea tripped over it—without the head losing its tracking focus on you, those unblinking eyes adhered to yours—and the body splayed and juddered on the ground. Then the corpse began moving inchworm-fashion, pushed forward by the action of the legs, the forearms banging on the tiles, thrusting the blessed bones of some fallen faithful out the way as though unnoticed. It was as though a magnet were stuck in the meat, a magnet that craved some polar force within you.
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* ''That'' scene with Cytherea's body:
--> That walk! That shuffling, disconcerting, slithering walk! The body flung its arms before it for momentum, the legs stiff-thighed and lock-kneed, right-side arm moving in time with right-side leg, ridiculous, appalling. Those fixed dead fingers caught a skeletal arm wrapped in gold foil, amethysts studded like so many eyes between the knucklebones, and it clattered to the ground, and Cytherea tripped over it—without the head losing its tracking focus on you, those unblinking eyes adhered to yours—and the body splayed and juddered on the ground. Then the corpse began moving inchworm-fashion, pushed forward by the action of the legs, the forearms banging on the tiles, thrusting the blessed bones of some fallen faithful out the way as though unnoticed. It was as though a magnet were stuck in the meat, a magnet that craved some polar force within you.
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* The ''thing'' that possessed Colum the Eigth back in ''Gideon the Ninth'' was horrifying. Turns out that there are a whole lot more of them, and that they can also possess ''anyone'', living or dead, and not just empty bodies like Colum's. The empire was fighting them on Antioch, but have now spread to the Empire, unleashing a full-fledged ZombieApocalypse. With the nickname "devils" and the way Varun refers to them as coming from the Tower in the river and mentions "a hole at the bottom of their tower", it's strongly implied that the devils come from [[{{Hell}} whatever lies beyond the stoma]].
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* The whole of the John chapters is the story of his ascension, told by him, so it might take you a bit to realize, but by the end it's impossible to not understand that John was handed the power of the Earth by Alecto and rather than use it to try and save the planet and its people, he wiped out the entire solar system and everyone in it, out of spite for them not using his solution to the problem.
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* When meeting Ianthe, Cam tells Nona to either answer yes or no, or to pretend to have the blue madness like Judith. You'd think this would lead to some silly scenes where Nona babbles nonsense, right? Nope. She screams ''in the [[BlackSpeech language of the Resurrection Beasts]]'', which not only breaks the lights and knocks out anyone with a necromantic body, but summons Number Seven to begin its attack in earnest.
* When meeting Ianthe, Cam tells Nona to either answer yes or no, or to pretend to have the blue madness like Judith. You'd think this would lead to some silly scenes where Nona babbles nonsense, right? Nope. She screams ''in the [[BlackSpeech language of the Resurrection Beasts]]'', which not only breaks the lights and knocks out anyone with a necromantic body, but summons Number Seven to begin its attack in earnest.
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--> Somebody down the corridor shouted, “Disengage! Disengage,” but Nona’s scream was louder. One of the soldiers didn’t disengage, they shot her again instead. She raised the metal over her head, and she ran at them. They were screaming through their mask. Nona screamed through hers, the mask that was the front of her face.
--> Somebody down the corridor shouted, “Disengage! Disengage,” but Nona’s scream was louder. One of the soldiers didn’t disengage, they shot her again instead. She raised the metal over her head, and she ran at them. They were screaming through their mask. Nona screamed through hers, the mask that was the front of her face.
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--> Somebody down the corridor shouted,“Disengage! Disengage,” "Disengage! Disengage," but Nona’s scream was louder. One of the soldiers didn’t didn't disengage, they shot her again instead. She raised the metal over her head, and she ran at them. They were screaming through their mask. Nona screamed through hers, the mask that was the front of her face.
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--> Somebody down the corridor shouted, “Disengage! Disengage,” but Nona’s scream was louder. One of the soldiers didn’t disengage, they shot her again instead. She raised the metal over her head, and she ran at them. They were screaming through their mask. Nona screamed through hers, the mask that was the front of her face.
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!!Chapter 19
Nona's third tantrum. It ''starts'' with her screaming so loudly she tears her own throat open and gets worse from there, which Nona doesn't care about because she's too angry to pay attention to pain.
--> Somebody down the corridor shouted, “Disengage! Disengage,” but Nona’s scream was louder. One of the soldiers didn’t disengage, they shot her again instead. She raised the metal over her head, and she ran at them. They were screaming through their mask. Nona screamed through hers, the mask that was the front of her face.
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* The River was already a pretty unappealing concept, the idea that the afterlife is nothing but eternity as a ravenous soul, gone mad with hunger, until a passing resurrection beast eats you. Abigail theory of the River Beyond, however, that somehow makes it both better and ''much'' worse at once; According to her, the River is meant to be a mere transitory plane, somewhere souls are shepherded towards the unseen realms beyond, but something has gone ''terribly'' wrong. Which raises the question; ''What in the world could go so wrong that the entire afterlife is affected?!?''
* The River was already a pretty unappealing concept, the idea that the afterlife is nothing but eternity as a ravenous soul, gone mad with hunger, until a passing resurrection beast eats you. Abigail theory of the River Beyond, however, that somehow makes it both better and ''much'' worse at once; According to her, the River is meant to be a mere transitory plane, somewhere souls are shepherded towards the unseen realms beyond, but something has gone ''terribly'' wrong. Which raises the question; ''What in the world could go so wrong that the entire afterlife is affected?!?''
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* The implications of what the Empire really is: a galaxy-spanning act of RevengeByProxy. Among the people of the dying Earth who were unwilling or unable to participate in the HomeworldEvacuation, one found a path to godlike power, unleashing planet-killing monstrosities in the process. He built a new society devoted to his will and fueled by murder, trapping billions of souls in torment. And he declared war on the descendants of everyone who abandoned him. The reason no one discusses who the Empire is fighting or why is because it's irrelevant; it exists to make war upon the universe.
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* The implications of what the Empire really is: a galaxy-spanning act of RevengeByProxy. Among the people of the dying Earth who were unwilling or unable to participate in the HomeworldEvacuation, one found a path to godlike power, unleashing planet-killing monstrosities in the process. He built a new society devoted to his will and fueled by murder, trapping billions of souls in torment. And he declared war on the descendants of everyone who abandoned him.him, a war Augustine says is based on "purely symbolic retribution". The reason no one discusses who the Empire is fighting or why is because it's irrelevant; it exists to make war upon the universe.
** As mentioned in the glossary for the previous book, the worlds the Nine Houses take die and aren't even considered as part of it. There's no gain.
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* A subtle moment and early hint towards the Emperor's nature comes when Harrow tells him the circumstances of her conception, and John is ''fascinated'':
--> '''Emperor''': "[...] Harrowhark--even as the product of two obvious geniuses--you are a walking miracle. A unique theorem. A natural wonder."
--> '''Harrow''': "I have just told you that I am the product of my parents' genocide."
* A subtle moment and early hint towards the Emperor's nature comes when Harrow tells him the circumstances of her conception, and John is ''fascinated'':
--> '''Emperor''': "[...] Harrowhark--even as the product of two obvious geniuses--you are a walking miracle. A unique theorem. A natural wonder."
--> '''Harrow''': "I have just told you that I am the product of my parents' genocide."
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* The definitions in the glossary help fill out an ugly picture. Planets and stars usually radiate thalergy or 'life energy'. They can be converted into thanergy planets (radiating death energy as they die) but almost never become thanergenic (radiating death energy without dying). TheEmpire called the Nine Houses only considers the Dominicus system home, with the territory they 'sheperd' not even an extension. They kill the planets they conquer in order for necromancers to be more effective on them. The second book mentions that the life on a dying planet gradually changes and becomes sterile 'mutants', and eventually the human population has to be evacuated.
* The definitions in the glossary help fill out an ugly picture. Planets and stars usually radiate thalergy or 'life energy'. They can be converted into thanergy planets (radiating death energy as they die) but almost never become thanergenic (radiating death energy without dying). TheEmpire called the Nine Houses only considers the Dominicus system home, with the territory they 'sheperd' not even an extension. They kill the planets they conquer in order for necromancers to be more effective on them. The second book mentions that the life on a dying planet gradually changes and becomes sterile 'mutants', and eventually the human population has to be evacuated.
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* After Gideon the First's constant attempts to kill her, Harrow tries to assassinate him in turn. She serves everyone soup for dinner; when asked what she used for the broth, she replies 'marrow' -- just as a fully formed skeleton ''erupts from Gideon's chest, spattering everyone with blood.'' And this doesn't kill him. Even Augustine, who's been alive for nearly 10,000 years and presumably has seen it all, is shaken by this.
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* After Isaac has just died in front of the two of them, Gideon takes Jeannemary to a Lyctoral study, thinking it's the only place that's safe. Despite herself, she falls asleep in exhaustion, and wakes to find Jeannemary pinned to the bed with massive spears of bone, and written on the wall above her, in fresh blood:
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* Harrow's first experience in the River:
--> You were lying in a sea of bodies. They had bumped up against you before you had realised it, before you could flinch away from their nearness: perhaps the blood conjured them into being, so suddenly were they there. You stood up without thinking, and more bumped gently into your elbows, your arms. They carpeted the bottom of the shuttle. They bobbed in an unseen current low to the ground, lacking the air to drift to the top. Through a thin curtain of your blood, you could see the dizzying array of slippery corpses, their faces painted in black and alabaster greys. Dead girls in their teens, their half exposed bones still caught in the act of fusing at the caps; dead boys still shedding their milk teeth; ungendered infants, mostly skull, their nails like tiny chips of stone. A rubber-bodied toddler with a painted face and very red hair lay dead beside your knee and for some reason it was this that destroyed you, it was this that kindled within you something you had no hope of defending against. You howled in a purity of fright.
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* After Isaac has just died in front of the two of them, Gideon takes Jeannemary to a Lyctoral study, thinking it's the only place that's safe. Despite herself, she falls asleep in exhaustion, and wakes to find Jeannemary pinned to the bed with massive spears of bone, and written on the wall above her, in fresh blood:
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* Harrow's first experience in the River:
--> You were lying in a sea of bodies. They had bumped up against you before you had realised it, before you could flinch away from their nearness: perhaps the blood conjured them into being, so suddenly were they there. You stood up without thinking, and more bumped gently into your elbows, your arms. They carpeted the bottom of the shuttle. They bobbed in an unseen current low to the ground, lacking the air to drift to the top. Through a thin curtain of your blood, you could see the dizzying array of slippery corpses, their faces painted in black and alabaster greys. Dead girls in their teens, their half exposed bones still caught in the act of fusing at the caps; dead boys still shedding their milk teeth; ungendered infants, mostly skull, their nails like tiny chips of stone. A rubber-bodied toddler with a painted face and very red hair lay dead beside your knee and for some reason it was this that destroyed you, it was this that kindled within you something you had no hope of defending against. You howled in a purity of fright.
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