The Prince and The Darkness
6: The crowning of a king.
-Prince Baku and Shen Taba argue about where to lead their people.
-Kazo finds the Emperor's crown in the pile of bodies, and crowns Baku king.
-King Baku proclaims Anae and the other slaves free, and arms them for battle.
7: The end of the wall.
-The King's group fights through the Ape Men to rescue Klevok and the others.
-They flee the city, but later lose Ru, the only Metal Maker, to an infected wound.
-At the end of the wall they meet Hoon, a hunter who has kept a small group alive.
8: Betrayal.
-Hoon becomes loyal to the king, but Shen Taba convinces some of Hoon's men to rebel.
-Shen Taba tries to kidnap Anae, and Baku fights to save her.
-Klevok arrives, and Shen Taba flees, his men steal many slave women and supplies.
9: The Water Men.
-Beyond the wall, Hoon's hunting skills become less useful in new terrain.
-With hunger looming, the group finds evidence of men fishing along the coast.
-They reach their destination, the Twin Lakes, and find the huts of the Water Men.
10: The Settlement.
-King Baku decides not to attack the wary Water Men, even though they are not human.
-The Water Men take what they can carry, and leave the area anyway.
-King Baku commands Hoon and his fellow hunters to begin making a new Wall.
The Three Sacred Lies:
Baku and a few others know at the start of their journey that the Three Sacred Truths are not true, and are actually called the Lies of Leadership. According to tradition, these lies must be believed by the people, or the Empire of Attla will fall into ruin. At three different points in the story Baku chooses to leave tradition, and direct his people away from the Lies.
At the end of chapter two, the priests are barricading themselves in the temple in the hopes that the gods will spare them somehow. Baku breaks the first sacred truth by turning from the temple, and fleeing the mining town along the Wall.
At the end of chapter six, Baku is trapped in a room with mostly female slaves, and a few men who are not warriors. He knows that women can be strong, and he breaks the third sacred truth and arms them over the objections of Shen Taba. He knows the women must feel free and strong if they are to survive the journey.
At the beginning of chapter ten, King Baku is asked whether the soldiers should attack the Water Men and seize their food and fishing nets. The soldiers believe that the Water Men have no souls, and no gods because they are not human. This thinking lead to the unending war with the Ape Men that ultimately killed Baku's father, the Emperor. Even if he had the men to wipe out the entire village, which was questionable at that point, it wouldn't gain them enough to be worth the destruction of a native people that had shown them no hostility. He breaks the second sacred truth, and tells the soldiers to treat the Water Men like equals, and then watches them gathering food from the coasts.
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