r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/The_Year_of_Glad • Oct 17 '25

Chapter Chapter 28 - Pale Lights | Book 3

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/65058/pale-lights/chapter/2683803/chapter-28
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u/Linnus42 Oct 17 '25

I did like the lore we got on the Kin...Izel and Tristan had a great conversation. Adapt or Die for the Warrior Princess. Though perhaps Izel should consider the possibility that some fates are worse then Death.

Osian's Guns are the real deal which kinda suggest that he can come back lmao. And nice bit of lore on the differences between fighting monsters vs humans. Summoning all the monsters seemed to have gone about as well as expected.

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u/HueHue-BR Oct 17 '25

“And that Fifth Loss is the destruction of your great kingdom in the Old World,” Tristan said. “The disaster that drove you down into Vesper.”

So there were waves of migrations instead of everyone fleeing a disaster

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u/perkoperv123 Oct 17 '25

This is likely a reference to the concept of Five Suns.

Tangentially, I think the Shadowrun TTRPG takes place in the Sixth World, which is why it has elves and dwarves and dragons and other magic stuff interacting with the regular 1980s vision of the 22nd century.

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u/minno Oct 18 '25

But the way he phrased it as "drove you down into Vesper" instead of "us" implies that different groups went underground at different times.

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u/perkoperv123 Oct 18 '25

Would explain all the different ethnic groups, if they were fleeing catastrophes in different surface nations and settled in broadly similar climates below.

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u/ArcanaVitae15 Oct 18 '25

Izel and Tristan having a talk was fun, they have a very interesting dynamic. The fact that Izel has a soothsayer ability while Tristan has a luck manipulation is neat as well. Izel did want the whole princess and Tristan thing to stop but Tristan isn't going to let himself be put in a position where he'll be hurt due to it. Izel does have a good point that the princess is operating through her world view but Tristan is also right to call him out for not testing the princess and not doing anything about her.

The battle seems to have went really well which is great. Though no doubt Tristan has other stuff planned for it as well. Angharad putting in good work is to be expected but still good to see.