So.
I don’t think I can really unpack the issue of how to deal with the whole Civil War backdrop and not be horrible. I’m sure it’s possible, but I mean – we’ve got bloodlines of functionally separate people whose blood can’t mingle with the commoners and who are superior in every way, and a born-evil branch to boot. You want that shit as far as away from any real-life race issues as possible.
Given the whole book was pointless because the real conflict was introduced in Ch32 and resolved in Ch33, let’s just go through what was introduced.
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