Legion20
I agree with thrudd that Lith is a pawn. But i think she sees the figure of the pawn wrong. I say, Lith chooses to be a pawn, because everything else is not worth it at the moment. But he is a pawn one step away from the end of the board. And once he takes that step, he can choose to be any chess piece he wants :D
I think that this conversation shines an interesting light on the past events of the story. Previous speculation about the man in blue was that he was working for one of these two, or that possibly they were all working together. This proves that night and thrud haven’t officially teamed up in the past. Which brings me back to the man in blue. He is still out there, it seems we have good reason to believe that he isn’t night/meln or working for thrud with her aims avoiding interfering with lith. That makes him an enormous wild card as far as identity and for when he will strike next. My current number one suspect is the kings brother, but if that’s the case then we could see lith really diverging from the kingdom. I’m looking forward to tomorrows chapters :)
This is interesting, I guess the author had to find a way to make Thrud force Lith to be her enemy, cause let’ face it, once Lith saw Thrud was to powerful to win he’d surrender or migrate to another continent. With Meln making it personal now he has to side with the Kingdom and will now stay in the conflict, other wise with his personality, he’d have no reason to fight in this wr
Got to say, the horseman are becoming lamer and lamer over time. More and more desperate with more and more flaws. Baba Yagas saving them from their own stupidity is becoming quite sad. They really are looking more and more like pointless spoilt children on a vendetta, and nothing to do with what they were designed to learn. A shame really, enjoying the arcs with them less and less. 😔