#Rjalker reads The Book of the War

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[ID: The "zero days since our last nonsense" meme, with the characters now edited to be wearing MS-Paint scribbled Time Lord headdresses from Doctor Who, and the sign now reading, "Zero days since our last crime against life". End ID.]

@walks-the-ages post this to the discord I'm lazy

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Some cultures talk of weapons which eat souls. Only one built a weapon which ate everything except the soul, and spat it out, alone, naked and shivering.

They got even worse somehow

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If they use the word cabal one more time I'm not finishing this book.

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*one page later*

[ID: Two panels from a larger comic, showing a person looking down and to the side with a blank smile, then saying, "Jesus Christ". End ID.]

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The N word in the older-preffered sense that should not be in a book published in 2002 if this part wasn't written by a Black person

Just because you're talking about stuff from hundreds of years ago doesn't mean you should be using words that are now racial slurs. You are already paraphrasing. Paraphrase the slur out.

Also if they're just making up a fake Native American historical figure that's not helping either

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the War has not only forced the Houses to embrace the “vulgar” (i.e. physical) nature of the continuum but also inspired them to commit various acts of nervous, hurried genocide. As a result, it’s fair to say that history is no longer a safe place in which to live.

Yeah.

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Adding paragraph breaks

Many historians among the breakaway cells – including some from Faction Paradox itself – claim that their own cults were “the original renegades”, but this claim must be treated with caution.

Firstly, it has to be remembered that the very term “renegade” is a comparatively modern and politicised one. A renegade doesn’t simply leave the Homeworld: he or she abandons it. It’s a ritual act, signifying contempt for the cultural and social strictures of the Houses.

To become a renegade is almost to specify oneself as something other than everything in the cosmos which is not renegade. Why else do they strip off their names and birthrights? It’s virtually an act of self-mutilation. It’s also an act of hatred against a world which demands, or pretends to demand, complete and unflinching introversion of self and society.

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Okay shift but this time you did interrupt it when it was interesting so you better give that part back.

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You have kids!?!?!?!?

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The Cwejen have so far shown no signs of rebelling against House authority, having generally retained the optimism of the younger Christopher Cwej, though a few have occasionally asked for either greater rights as individuals or recognition as a discrete bloodline. As a result, several strategists have rather cruelly begun to refer to them as the “Little House of Cwejes”

Of course they do

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"warrior tribes of North America" yeah you're being so fucking racist right now.

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me @ The Book of the War: what are your pronouns

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The table of contents alone.....lolllll.... i definitely can't copy and paste that much on my phone.

@walks-the-ages you have to post the table of contents of The Book of the War at some point.

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I did find The Book of the War so I will actually be reading that now since walks keeps nagging me to.

The tags will be

Rjalker reads Faction Paradox, Rjalker reads The Book of the War

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at some point I'll finish reading The Book of the War because uhhhhhhhhhh well. Let's say changes have been made so as to not provoke my instantaneous blood curdling rage.

well. for some of it. the rest of the racism is still going to piss me the fuck off. But you'll get an honest review.

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Lol

For context when they say "fetishistic" they mean "enjoys symbology" (and also, goth)

His eventual conclusion, based largely on the fetishistic nature of the Faction, was that the only thing which might feasibly gain the bloodline’s favour was the arm of Grandfather Paradox: the mythical severed limb which had been separated from its owner on the same day that the Faction itself was founded, during the notorious Act of Severance. Given the complete failure of the Great Houses to understand the “symbolic” on most occasions, it seemed an entirely reasonable conclusion.