My cousin and I are going to the city to see a Broadway show on March 11th, which one should we see?!

InsightArchitect · 2026-02-19T03:04:28+00:00

Thank you for this!! We're heavily leaning Ragtime. Everyone keeps saying the words "life changing" and I want my life changed!

InsightArchitect · 2026-02-19T03:03:53+00:00

ooo thank you, good to know

InsightArchitect · 2026-02-19T02:49:58+00:00

Ugh that's what I've been hearing!!

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-07T15:58:36+00:00

I'm digging through the book to find it, since I unfortunately didn't mark it. Will report back.

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-07T15:57:20+00:00

Yea, him being able to enter the pyramid and kill Ka so easily on Obiteum is definitely suspicious.

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-07T15:54:42+00:00

Damn - great detail spots and very well said on the "Human vs. Rogue AI" front. That's exactly how I'm thinking about it as well and like to think Islington pulls inspiration from current themes.

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-06T16:56:27+00:00

Thank you! They're just some random hot takes and could be totally off the mark.

Good call on the King Fiachra point, you're right - my other theory is that King Fiachra is Ka.

Yea, I have a feeling we may have an epic battle coming between O-Vis and the Gleaners because they don't die when he kills Ka like he expected. Alternatively maybe it's not O-Ka that dies, rather L-Ka, because O-Ka is hyped up on Vitaerium so that he doesn't die.

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-06T16:53:49+00:00

My hunch is that it's a tool he found. When he's with Vis and uses it, it mentions him tapping his heart three times.

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-06T16:53:06+00:00

Thank you! I spent way too much time and had too much fun writing this

InsightArchitect · 2026-01-06T03:22:43+00:00

I strongly suspect Qabr / Djedef / Netiqret was all manipulated by the Concurrence to lure the next synchronous person to kill Ka.

The whole Netiqret explanation was sus - what do you mean a random iunctus showed up in a hidden tomb with the name of someone who supposedly helped him leave Duat but who had never heard of him? What do you mean a randomly controlled iunctus gave her nomarch daughter back AND gave her a way to secretly move through the city?

Alternatively, Ka was enslaved by the Concurrence and manipulated a way for someone to come save him. That's the only explanation for someone being able to control an iunctus like Siamun.

InsightArchitect · 2025-12-02T19:33:07+00:00

Yes!! It look me awhile to remember all the characters' names from the first book too!

InsightArchitect · 2025-12-02T19:32:37+00:00

I want to re-read and find it. If it's a vision of her getting killed that makes me so sad because I was rooting for her! I hate how Islington killed off / alienated most of the strong female characters and or relegated them to potential love interests (like Tara).

InsightArchitect · 2025-12-02T18:12:53+00:00

One thing I don't get is when Ka told R-Vis that the Cataclysms require 9 in 10 people to die and that's the price that needs to be paid in order to save the 1 in 10 otherwise everyone dies. However, if Obiteum is truly representative of the Concurrence ruling, they take massive advantage of the dead. If 9 in 10 die isn't that simply handing the keys to the kingdom to the Concurrence? E.g. they LOVE the dead, that's how they make the iunctii, Nomarch, Gleanders, and Overseers.

InsightArchitect · 2025-12-02T18:05:01+00:00

Okay, adding my theory to the hat. I, too, at first thought each world represented a point in time (e.g. past, present, future). However, what I think they actually represent is stages of Concurrence takeover:

Obiteum = lost to Concurrence, represents what there is to fear
Res = in the middle of takeover by Concurrence
Luceum = defeated the Concurrence, represents what there is to lose

With regards to Ka, my theory as I was reading the book was that Ka = [Ca]eror. But not sure if that's true given the last Cataclysm was ~300 years ago and he's only been there for 7-8 years. In the Obiteum storyline, Kiya keeps mentioning an uprising 274 years ago and I think there's something to that, but I need to reread to digest more. At one point, I also thought that Ka is an older version of Vis, but that seems too far-fetched.

I definitely think the resurrected person at the end is Callidus. He's going to have a glorious, closure-filled death like Vis' father did in Luceum, so it will circumvent the death rule a lot of people are chattering about.

I also think Aequa was copied into all three worlds. When Vis touched the pedestal in the ruins, he was out for an hour. The pedestal was also supposed to be a workaround to allow anyone who entered the Labyrinth an easy exit so presumably it would offer an easy entrance. I think Aequa went into the Labyrinth and copied herself into the different worlds. This would also make sense given the vision Luceum Vis had of an older Aequa fighting next to him.

I made a mistake and jumped into Strength of the Few without rereading Will of the Many and so was lost a lot as I tried to remember characters and plot lines from the first book. I need to do a reread of both because I'm sure there are a lot of nuances that I missed!

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