I truly do not like the trope of: No, don't kill my loved one. You can kill/enslave everyone ells if you just keep your promise and don't hurt the one I care about.
But I truly got annoyed when later he says
but she also realizes that there’s so much more at stake than our own lives
Oh, great. Mangus is still a giant sadistic manchild. While Silverspeak has survived lots of scrapes that should rightfully have killed him but for the grace of luck, Mangus' luck is in a class of its own to get to where he is. I wouldn't be surprised finding out in the end that his soul and Silverspeak's soul are eternal opposites, destined to fight one another for all of eternity. Or something. Still, I guess I was correct in that he embodies destruction, killing and blowing stuff up for the sake of it. Since he 'controls' Iron Hoof too, he would be the true antagonist as well.
And if Mangus is the real big bad, he actually won in a sense. By kidnapping Silverspeak and having Silverspeak be the front face for propaganda in the war, he's completely ruined Silverspeak's name. No amount of revelations that Silverspeak was brainwashed is going to help his reputation in the history books, and it'll wipe out all the good he did prior to that in the first two stories.
Let's just hope that when it comes down to it, Silverspeak doesn't hesitate and does whatever it takes to kill Mangus this time, and I mean kill him to the point where there's no doubt he's dead. Whether it be to incinerate or atomise him.
Mangus also mentions arch-dragons of 'creation', so I wonder if any of them are around or if they were all forcibly pressed into Mangus' cause.
"... I want to bring about a new and better age, one where the weak and the pitiful and the useless are no longer coddled and nurtured, but where strength and might are rewarded, just as it should be."
So says the person who had to be nurtured back from the brink of death only to presumably live as a blind cripple, and before that needed a prosthesis. It takes some real effort to be that hypocritical.
I think mangus didn't think hard enough to not think that the literally moon princess that he can't find would be hiding on the moon keep in mind she was there for 1000 years so she's done it before
... Quick question, Green: Have I ever said how much I hate, hate HATE Mangus? Cuz BOY I really despise him now.
This is it. This is the end. This is how Silverspeak dies.
I truly do not like the trope of: No, don't kill my loved one. You can kill/enslave everyone ells if you just keep your promise and don't hurt the one I care about.
But I truly got annoyed when later he says
He is inconsistent and I don't like it.
Green, good to see the final hours are coming and this series goting out with a bang. I had to read it through
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Logic and the heart are rarely bedfellows
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I still do not like the trope.
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Its life. The sadistic choice.
Oh No Not You Again! by The Heavy comes to mind
But I pray that she hears me when I say:
Oh no not you again!
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I still do not like the trope.
Oh, great. Mangus is still a giant sadistic manchild. While Silverspeak has survived lots of scrapes that should rightfully have killed him but for the grace of luck, Mangus' luck is in a class of its own to get to where he is. I wouldn't be surprised finding out in the end that his soul and Silverspeak's soul are eternal opposites, destined to fight one another for all of eternity. Or something. Still, I guess I was correct in that he embodies destruction, killing and blowing stuff up for the sake of it. Since he 'controls' Iron Hoof too, he would be the true antagonist as well.
And if Mangus is the real big bad, he actually won in a sense. By kidnapping Silverspeak and having Silverspeak be the front face for propaganda in the war, he's completely ruined Silverspeak's name. No amount of revelations that Silverspeak was brainwashed is going to help his reputation in the history books, and it'll wipe out all the good he did prior to that in the first two stories.
Let's just hope that when it comes down to it, Silverspeak doesn't hesitate and does whatever it takes to kill Mangus this time, and I mean kill him to the point where there's no doubt he's dead. Whether it be to incinerate or atomise him.
Mangus also mentions arch-dragons of 'creation', so I wonder if any of them are around or if they were all forcibly pressed into Mangus' cause.
"... I want to bring about a new and better age, one where the weak and the pitiful and the useless are no longer coddled and nurtured, but where strength and might are rewarded, just as it should be."
So says the person who had to be nurtured back from the brink of death only to presumably live as a blind cripple, and before that needed a prosthesis. It takes some real effort to be that hypocritical.
I think mangus didn't think hard enough to not think that the literally moon princess that he can't find would be hiding on the moon keep in mind she was there for 1000 years so she's done it before