Seeker of Thrones 1-7
Chapter: 1
“It is unfortunate that the only near-complete and exquisitely detailed chronicle of the Rising King was so elaborately embellished [21].
[21] I use the word embellished here with both a great deal of care and an extreme and calculated distaste.”
Pangoxes, Meta-historian of the Retroactive Record Monks, Circa 35 Third Conquest
So… now that we have a quote establishing that Allison is the rising King, and does win, really the only dramatic tension is which of her companions will make it with her to the end?
Can the Prophecy be broken, truly? What shape will Allison be when the beast is dead, and what will she do then?
It is not impossible that she will be twisted to fit the horrid place the seven occupy.
And how do the other powers, Metatron, and Maya, our devil friends and enemies, factor into the new balance of power?
You should be more careful about the exact wording: a rising king has not yet risen: if she succumbs to the last obstacle, she will have never won. Furthermore, it’s not just a question of her companion’s health, but which shape Al-Yis-Un will decide to cut herself into. Will she bring a dream of justice to Throne and the multiverse, or only more war and despair?
The quote is dated as being after the third conquest though. If one of the demiurges took the throne, it would be merely a continuation of the second?
My guess is the fact that there is a new factor involved, being the Rising King (as well as other entities I shall not name since I come from the future and are rereading), hence called the Third Conquest.
The only elaborate chronicle is Cio’s fanfiction, which is completely unreliable. Yet indeed, Lying is second of the greatest arts, and is the most useful.
This might not be the case. The title of the writer is “Pangoxes, Meta-historian of the Retroactive Record Monks”. The inclusion of “Meta’ and “Retroactive” in their title prevent them from being totally reliable sources.
But even if it is the case, this is hardly surprising. Aside from having multiple individuals with future sight saying that she goes out and overthrows the system, so we already have a strong evidence that she is “fated” to succeed. That aside, a basic element of (nearly) all stories is that the hero makes it to the end of the story, whatever that ending is. Also, the difficulty, means, and cost of reaching that ending still isn’t known, so it isn’t without tension.
George R. R. Martin would like to talk to you about your theories on narrative tension, and then murder your favorite POV character.
Re the monks, they appear from the date to be writing after the events of the story, weakening the effect of their qualifiers.
Take the Mottom encounter. Many pages were spent furthering the belief that Allison was in mortal peril. But a repeat of similar events would lack similar punch, because we ‘know’ Allison makes it.
With the complication that Zaid might be the real rising King (however unlikely that might be), she was spared shielding by prophecy. But now that we ‘know’ the truth, her task is trivialized. She will triumph regardless of how she acts. She need not grow into her role or make hard choices, providence will provide, apparently. (Admittedly with the angel’s plot there exists a victory condition for Allison in which death would be preferrable, but given the omnicidal nature of that plot it probably isn’t the one the monks are writing about, as they are writing at all.)
“He’s mu husband, but I’m actually gay, so i ran away from him. Happens to the best of us, you know how it goes.”
Hmm can a blue devil turn red out of pure embarrassment? Cio’s gonna find out!
turns out her taste in men(?) was trash all along
Just admiring your work and wondering how you managed this blog so well. It’s so remarkable that I can’t afford to not go through this valuable information whenever I surf the internet!
It seems the description on this page comes from the future, as the Third Conquest hath not begun yet as of this page ridden chapter.
It is amusing to see fanfiction writing transcend our mortal world in this work, even infecting something homer would scoff at being history.
Well, I found the perfect username as a late reader of K6BD.