In this chapter, I also go a little bit into the linguistics of the novel. If you’d been able to figure out that ‘Dor’ wasn’t an Aon, then you were a step ahead of Raoden at this point. I realize it’s probably too small a thing to have been of note, but I do actually mention the ‘Dor’ one time earlier in the book. It’s in the discussion where Galladon discovers that the republic has fallen. He says, “Only outsiders—those without any sort of true understanding of the Dor—practice the Mysteries.”
There are a lot of other clues sprinkled through these chapters. If you’re really clever, you could probably figure out from this chapter what is wrong with AonDor, and from that extrapolate why the Shaod went bad.
Anyway, if you want more on linguistics, head over to the ‘goodies’ section of the website. I’ve got a whole essay on the languages in ELANTRIS over there.
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