I remember a remark was made about some new lore (or lore that was expanded on) about the hist? Please shed some light.
Also, no need to get specific about the plot, but is the ending a cliff hanger? Like would the next novel be a continuation of this one? I know that's probably unanswerable, but given the way it ended could you hazard a guess?
Yes, the ending is a cliffhanger. sort of, nobody's hanging off cliffs, but it does end in medias res to be picked up by the next book.
Hist lore: assload. Don't even know where to start. Well, I guess start with the rumors in Oblivion about Argonians vanishing into Black marsh and work your way up. someone else can probably explain it better, it's real early over here. EDIT: Sir david's close, but he has the group name wrong. An-Xileel were the rebels who broke from them, there was another word but it's early and I don't remember.
As for landfall, I just have to say I told you all so. There was one group said it would destroy the world, another said it wouldn't do crap. I said a few threads ago "When a Dunmer says the world will be destroyed or Morrowind will be destroyed, he means the same thing." And when Umbriel failed to hold it up because Sul and Vuhon enantinomorphed (A fights B over C) and the machine that would become Umbriel broke, ka-BOOM! Like everyone thought, it kept its velocity. Then after it hit what little was left of the Dunmer were scattered, mostly to Solstheim it seems, by the invading An-Xileel.
Loads of new Argonian lore doing what I hoped it would. Black Marsh would be a near unplayable area in a game, so have it described and fleshed out in the book.
and Umbra stealing part of Vile and becoming the Daedric Prince of Umbriel, well I didn't see that coming at all. I just figured it for a reference since both the sword and the city use souls of living things for power.
Anyone notice how Vuhon is deliberately trying to make a streamlined, more efficient Dreamsleeve?
And before anyone says it, the only seeming confliction is when Annaig explains the lights in the sky to her new friend on Umbriel as either holes in Oblivion or chunks of Magnus who "made the world." It bothered me until I thought, first off he made the blueprints and second, it makes more sense to explain it to someone who had never heard of stars that way.
This book did exactly what I wanted: give us some new lore and flesh out some old. I was amazed at how many things I noticed from the lore that Keyes used perfectly.
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