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Also, potentially (unless Zel wasn’t considered prominent until the 2nd Antinium War), Orthenon’s comment to Flos in the previous chapter is also incompatible with this dating, since this chapter implies 8 years between Antinuium wars, and from the other book it seemed that Zel was prominent even in the first Antinium war, which 8 years pre 3 A.F would be before Flos’ slumber.

Potential typo:

The inn wasn’t that full this late at night. Drassi and Lyonette were manning the inn, but their only guests were the Horns of Hammerad, the Halfseekers, Mrsha, and the five Redfang Warriors who were sitting at a distant table, jabbering to themselves. They had been having a rather idle night with Erin gone, until Pisces had produced the book and begun reading from it.

I am fairly certain is has never been “revealed” that goblins used to.be another race. Even on a reread, and looking through the wiki, I can’t find anything that would support this.

Unless you’re pulling this from comments speculating on the subject, this doesn’t appear to be true at all, as of my writing this reply.

Drakes have a different written language, but other than a few specific cultural words – like their name for the continent – the spoken language is the same.

Goblin “language”, as we’ve seen it so far, isn’t really a “true” language. It’s more of a combination of some sounds with a lot of body language mixed in. It’s possible they might have a more complete language of their own, but so far, we haven’t seen that.

Either way, I doubt whatever people “hear” upon leveling up is in actual words. It seems to be transmitted directly into their brain, and their brain just puts it in a form they can understand. It is probably similar to how someone that knows multiple languages can think and translate between them unconsciously much of the time. When you get fluent in alternate languages, you can often process things heard or read in one language into your “primary” language with little trouble – your brain does it almost automatically.

I believe she sponsored the first book he wrote, which actually turned out decent. He then used the success from that book to go on and write further “historical” accounts, including this one, all of which began including more and more bias.

In other words, he developed a huge ego after his first book, and thought that it was he himself that was insightful. When in reality, he just had the funding to do what no one else really wanted to do, which created a massively skewed perspective of how well he actually wrote.

The bias itself isn’t so much an issue as the extremely biased and not at all “historical” interjections he makes at various points. They don’t add a single thing to the “historical account” other than to disparage any non-drake participants.

A historical account can have bias. It can also have author commentary that directly relates to historical fact. It’s when you start adding in commentary that is not only biased, but entirely an opinion without any actual basis in facts, that things go downhill. That starts turning a “historical account” into something else, something closer to fiction “based on true events”.

It is pretty obvious from the varied objections by readers that we get to see, that even some of the “facts” were probably poorly researched.

Impossible, Teriarch wouldn’t have said that Zelkyr “wouldn’t have allowed this to happen” when he condemned Pisces and Ceria about their shitty magical abilities.

I’m really confused. Wasn’t this book sponsored by Magnolia Reinhart. You mentioned it in a Ryoka chapter, this kind feels really weird.