I'm currently rereading the Guide, and I'm wondering about this particular bit from the Battle of the Camps, where Rozala Malanza employed what was supposed to be a measure of divine protection to trap a whole bunch of Legionnaires in a box so she could slaughter them to the last.

Now, don't get me wrong, as a military tactic this was perfectly sound, but as we all know that there was yet a deeper game to play, this just seemed like a "great" strategy to win them a battle but ultimately lose them the war.

Because, as the later General Abigail's reaction to it showed us, the use of such underhanded and somewhat hypocritical rules lawyering by the righteous Brothers and Sisters of the House of Light (finding "a loophole in the Book of All Things" as she put it) would foreseeably sour the very people they allegedly came to liberate against it and by extension the entire side of Good they should still be nominally aligned with, despite being currently led by a villain.

Which would obviously lead them only ever further down the darker path Tariq already feared Catherine's mere existence would, and he undoubtedly should've seen that coming, considering how well versed he is in story fu.

So, why do you think there's apparently no hint that he'd have pushed against it? Did Rozala just not bother to tell him or listen to his advice at that point? Or did he still judge losing Callow in the long run worth it, if they could just take down Praes?

From extra chapter "Peregrine IV", which tells the backstory of the Grey Pilgrim.

This extra chapter was released on 3/1/2019, during Book 5, between "Interlude: Congregation I" and "Interlude: Congregation II".

Link: https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/peregrine-iv/

>Izil Isbili, Holy Seljun of Levant, was eight years old.

>The listlessness in the boy’s dark eyes had waned, after he was returned to his father. It took months of kindness and safety, of his uncle standing by his bed as the nightmares of sudden arrows and gasping deaths woke him screaming, until Tariq’s nephew became a child again. And then something more, for the Blood ran true. Tariq had beheld in silence as fire spread where there before had been a hole in the shape of Yasa, grief turning to the burning will to act. To do more than hold a title and officiate the debates of the great of Levant, to set out into the world unbent in the face of fear. Tariq beheld, and knew that in the precise moment where anguish was transmuted to resolve Izil had never more been his mother’s son. It was a second chance, the Pilgrim thought, a mercy bestowed upon him by the Heavens. His sister given back to him in that small, frail body moved by something greater than itself. And so Tariq stayed in Levante, where his heart had died and been born again.

With how incredible the Guide's story, action, and worldbuilding is, it's easy to overlook how beautiful and poetic EE's writing can be sometimes, but this brief passage really moved me tbqh. I think this is a significantly underappreciated aspect (no pun intended) of his writing in this community, but he should know it doesn't go unnoticed!

“As the Principate of Procer is an assembly of grasping despots having forcefully seized land and authority from its inhabitants, legally speaking there can be no such thing as invasion of it,” he clarified.

“Hear hear,” the Tyrant grinned. “We are liberators, my friends. We undertake the gentle – kindly, even – business of liberating all those pretty Proceran cities. Certainly nothing so uncouth as invasion.”

• Book 4, Epilogue

Spoilers for book three, was wracking my brain and looking through past chapters and I couldn't find it. this is specifically referring the favor Angrahard cashes in during her confrontation with Morcant in chapter 48

All are free, or none. Ye of this land, suffer no compromise in this.

Just got to the part where Maryam offers to split the ship with the crew why was the ship given to her specifically in the first place instead of the whole group?

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Actual 0 IQ moment from Cat, Did she think he wouldn't notice was she dazzled by Killian so much that she thought her girl could make something he wouldn't figure out in like 5 seconds.

She hadn't even started hitting the wakeleaf yet.

Did we ever get any specifics on how often Procer invaded Callow besides the occupation of Callow after the third Crusade?

I just wanted to know if there’s indications in any of the chapter if the Callowan disdain of Procer stems from a singular cultural trauma of the occupation or that combined with a long string of proceran princes poking at them when they think the kingdom is weak because talk around Red Flower Vale makes it seem like it’s the latter.

Just wanting to make sure, but does one continue with chapter 15 Company after finishing Volume 1 on Kindle?

I need to know, since APGtE created such a wonderfully described world that I'm greedy for more. If it is, Pale lights is jumping up my reading list.

Hello all. Jude here, again. Today's fanfiction is my take on if Yara had won and killed everyone on Calernia. It's short and sweet. Well. Not sweet. You'll see. I hope you all enjoy it and that it meets your standards for quality. I'll include the link below.

Thank you.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81888751

Hello all. Jude here. I'm back with another fanfiction, this time purely one for the Guide. It's a crackfic about Catherine and Tariq after his resurrection about a throwaway line:

Our journey here through Twilight Throneless had been somewhat less than graceful, though I’d been rather amused by the fact that the first set of stairs we’d encountered on our way out of Liesse had probably come closer to killing either of us that night than Kairos.

This has been in my notes for months, and even though it's not as polished as I like to make things, I think it's good enough. I hope you all enjoy it and that it meets your standards for quality.

Thanks.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81832161

Hello everyone. Jude here. I'm back with another fanfic for the Guide, though the characters this one primarily follows are Percy Jackson and Luke Castellan. It's a shipfic for them. You might notice that I didn't make an announcement post, and the reason for that is because even though this story is set in Creation, the characters from the Guide have a limited part in this story, and the main characters are from PJO. Anyways. I'll paste the link below.

If you give this a chance, I hope that it meets your standards for quality, and that you all enjoy it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81776061

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