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Style of Writing
King Roarke serves as the narrator through out the epic. While he attempts to pen an objective historical account, his involvement with the men and women of the story makes this task insurmountable. But it is Roarke's humanness, full of challenges and contradictions, that make his insights so compelling.

Parts
There are three main Parts to the epic: Transgressions, Retributions and Alliances. In Transgressions we learn the brief history of several peoples all vying for the same land. The land itself is riddled with "imponderables" and anomalies that shape and define the cultures, rituals and very order of the inhabitants. Transgressions tells the story of how far the people of Kanabulan are willing to go to master the imponderables, and the disastrous, long-lasting effects of their hubris. Part I ends as Eburgistraten, the reluctant King of Kanabulan, sacrifices everything to free the entrapped being and end its cycle of immortal damnation.

Part II and III take place predominantly in Roarke's court, though Alliances, the latter of the two, was written first. Retributions shows the underlying evil within a society portrayed as both victim and victor. Roarke writes about the clash between the ruling, religious and warrior classes in a tone quite formal and distant, though he himself is at the epicenter of it all. These parts are augmented by both Fen's Memoirs, Tironik's Commentaries, Vay's Diaries and Zbinka Tells All for additional perspective.

Alliances is a light-hearted romp, in comparison, that continues to detail the massive undertakings of each kingdom and people to reestablish order. Near its end, we see that this is the calm before the storm.

Themes
Several of the recurring themes are: social injustice and inequality, depression, infertility, sibling rivalry and the price you often pay for getting what you want.

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