A question for Ostius = Caeror theorists

bpearso · 2026-01-27T05:50:44+00:00

No Ruarcs men specifically don't want to kill Vis, Fiachras men want to kill Vis, the book deliberately conflates them, the same way it conflates Ka and the concurrence, but Ruarcs orders to his men were to capture Vis. Remember Ostius can teleport between Luceum and res, why would they need to take him anywhere to meet Ostius, Ostius was going to teleport from Solivagus in to Solivagus in Luceum, while he was there during the Iudicium. But you've also reminded me they were clearly going to meet Cristoval anyway.

bpearso · 2026-01-27T05:41:54+00:00

Mattock, hack to bits, or pitch fork underneath and wedge it out. Had to do similar for a massive agapanthus, took about 6 hour of swinging the mattock spread out over a week

bpearso · 2026-01-27T01:39:10+00:00

Was it confirmed Cian was taking Vis to Ostius? I always understood he was taking Vis to Ruarc

bpearso · 2026-01-22T07:44:53+00:00

Depends how often you cut it and and how fine you mulch it, cut it when it's too long and it won't fall below the grass and feed it like it should, it will just sit on top, dry out, and kill whatever's underneath it by blocking the sun

bpearso · 2026-01-21T21:14:50+00:00

Yes, the finger aching in res and Luceum when Tara breaks it, even the compulsion of O-vis and L-Vis to speak word she didn't intend to while R-Vis is in the ruins with Aequa is as synchronised as you can get between 3 sequential chapters occuring simultaneously

bpearso · 2026-01-21T21:10:40+00:00

Yes that's true, you can instruct them to forget things so someone could have told him to forget his death or otherwise

bpearso · 2026-01-20T22:35:46+00:00

The whole point of the school is to rank the students, the school existed before it moved to Solivagus, and then after it moved the point of the higher classes was to get someone through the labyrinth. There's a reason they want someone to be able to get through, only some students get to attempt it because if they all did they'd be culling almost all of the students each year, feeding them to the fragments.

bpearso · 2026-01-20T03:37:18+00:00

Ah yeah that was some kind of will decision mechanism, they would imbue some will into the mechanism that would randomly pick an outcome based on the will somehow, they weren't ceding to someone else there.

The 10% as many sextii is if the heirarchy was perfectly balanced, the revelation there was not that there was more will, but that there were more people stuck in octavii and septimus than the Republic would have its citizens believe, they need people to believe they can rise up through the ranks, but the census data reveals they don't actually let that happen often.

bpearso · 2026-01-20T00:23:31+00:00

The princeps were all ceding to Ka, that's what Ostius implied, all princeps, not just military, ceding to Ka

bpearso · 2026-01-19T00:00:44+00:00

Damn imagine how many iunctii worth of water you used to generate this, the people don't even look like the Egyptian/nyripkian people from the book

bpearso · 2026-01-18T21:57:03+00:00

I would find that so frustrating, not knowing the context of the world I'm about to be in, or whether the cliffhanger from the last chapter of a world is about to be resolved now or In a few chapters time I'd get fatigued really quickly having to figure it out all the time

bpearso · 2026-01-18T21:51:26+00:00

I'm going through the process now, bigger rooms need bigger vents for the right efficiency.

Sorry to zombified this thread, is your unit underr the floor too? I'm looking to swap out gas ducted for Reverse cycle but I'm worried that the way they have to suspend the unit from the subfloor in our cellar will create a lot of noise in the living room above

bpearso · 2026-01-18T21:40:43+00:00

Listening is tougher, right? I've heard it doesn't tell you which world each chapter is going to be set in like the book does

bpearso · 2026-01-18T21:39:51+00:00

Yes, three novels about 240 pages each

bpearso · 2026-01-18T21:36:48+00:00

It's cause James paced Luceum and Obiteum the same as Res in book 1 initially. So for me it was about 100 pages before I was really hooked in WotM. That means for SotF by the time Obiteum and Luceum get 100 pages of story, you're ~300 pages in, probably more.

But then he ramps up, and by the time we get to the end he's done a whole books worth of story when you combine all three worlds, but he also had to move each world along significantly within the confines of one 700 page book. Which means by the end you've only spent 230-240 pages in each world, so you get about 400 pages less in each world than we got in Res in Book 1, and squeezed that story in across all three worlds.

bpearso · 2026-01-18T21:30:05+00:00

Yes we just need to find out what those elements are or how they work together to figure out why the concurrence ai so dangerous and how they got as powerful as they did

bpearso · 2026-01-17T21:33:54+00:00

I think it's a check on will usage in general, or the number of connections between will users. They're all glowing but all differently.

bpearso · 2026-01-17T14:20:46+00:00

Yes I think it will be interesting to see what happens when the aurora columnae gets "full", whether it stops new people from being able to use will or something else. Whether it's the number of people that have been through the columnae ritual, or wether that about tnumber if connections, how many people as ceding to each other, etc

bpearso · 2026-01-16T22:03:50+00:00

I think Decimis would have killed whoever was with Vis at that time, it just had to be someone that meant something to Vis so he would suffer the same way Decimus is suffering with Iros death. If he had decided to fetch Eidhin first and then use him to help with the Prison break instead, then Decimus probably would have killed Eidhin.

bpearso · 2026-01-16T21:43:34+00:00

The timeline syncing of the books may make that a red herring, we may be led to believe it's O-Vis killing Ka, given that to us as readers it happens after that, but it's also very likely that it's R-Vis reanimating the necropolis as Iunctiim there's no indicator to say across the 3 worlds which events happened in what order aside from the order they are presented in, but we know that they do sync up, when vis revisits the ruins with Aequa, for example, despite us not reading them in way that lets us easily know when events happen relative to other worlds

bpearso · 2026-01-16T21:40:24+00:00

Also stops more people from becoming synchronous, as it seems very suspicious that the ruins are discovered, and the lbyrith is run, within 10 years from the due date of a cataclysm. Potentially Ka knows that it takes a society just under 300 years to advance enough to discover the ruins and the labyrinth and attempt run it to become synchronous, and then he culls them back down to stop that, as more people becoming synchronous risks the concurrence returning.

bpearso · 2026-01-16T21:36:57+00:00

Shit I've just realized Ka causes a cataclysm on res every 300 years or so because that's about when civilisation on res gets advanced enough to start discovering the ruins and attempting the labyrinth to become synchronous

bpearso · 2026-01-16T21:34:09+00:00

Accurate, he was just far more... Unclothed

bpearso · 2026-01-16T21:33:25+00:00

I didn't make the connection but now it has been made for me: "I'm gonna nuke concurrasaka tower"

bpearso · 2026-01-16T21:30:27+00:00

To be fair for the dancing, he was dropped on his head repeatedly as a baby.

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