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#1 suin_bahhar_02 Jun 23, 2009 16:07:14

Didn't want to bump the monster thread about Reid's novel the Fractured Sky but wanted to share my thoughts on the little gems of lore in the book anyway. I read through the whole darned tread and I found some of the resulting musings very insightful in how cunning Cyrics deathblow was. I think Azuths Staff abilities actually give it good credence to have reacted the way it did when hitting Mystra. I followed the lookup of its abilities and the way it can reflect the magic back to its source the artifect can reasonably be seen as the right tool for striking down a powerful godess of magic. Cyric's whole ploy has not been revealed as of yet, but I think the set up was done quite ably by my favourite character in the previous book, Zasian. Him being killed (darned that) is likely to lead to Cyrics imprisonment in the final book. Anyway.. the book had some very good scenes where the divine turmoil in Mount Celestia led to action packed events such as the crashing of two islands in a gods domain. That scene gave me vertigo trying to imagine it. Several other scenes gave that same sence of scale that I looked for. Dweomerheart was also the setting for the rather wondrous end scene. The plazas got a real bustling bazaar type vibe to them. I liked that the actual events in the top of the Hall of Petitions didn't totally follow the vision Aliisza had in the magnificent vistas of the Savras realm. Didn't feel Zasian couldn't have foreseen Kashada's betrayal; then again she was the Nightdancer, one of the three versions of the avatars of Shar. All in all, this book is one I happily accept as depicting the godly domains as I had envisioned them for the realms in exiting ways I had not thought of. These kind of surprizes I always crave in my fantasy literature. Making me awe at a new sight, by showing me the use of a setting piece left in the dark in the sourcebooks.