Jul 10, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min · 9 segments
Fitz confronts Hap after failing to find his son and Svanja the previous night. Hap is completely unrepentant and Fitz, angry and morose. Back at the castle and informed by Lord Golden of a ship of…
I know, and the epigraph for this chapter is quite a long one, actually.
And it's an excerpt from Captain Banrop's Advice to Merchant Mariners.
And it kind of goes through...
It is an advice column, basically, and it tells prospective captains where they should sail and where they should set to port and what they should avoid.
Yeah, and it's really interesting because at the start, It says, And that's interesting to me personally, because why are we calling Chalcedon ports and cities old as evil itself?
So the way that it's framed makes me think that Captain Banrop is from the Six Duchies perspective.
One,
all of the epigraphs seem to be from the Six Duchies.
But two, it's describing a journey southward from north.
So I don't know.
They've always had...
War with Chalced, there's that saying in here that eventually there is going to be war with Chalced at some point.
And it sounds to me like Chalced is very, very old settlements.
Yeah, which I think I guess I find really interesting because we don't really get a lot of knowledge about Chalced outside of the fact that they have horrible moral beliefs and are not very nice people, according to all of their neighbors.
So we don't get a ton about Chalced.
what this place is like or what they actually do.
I guess next trilogy we'll get more of a look.
The quadrilogy, yeah, the tetralogy or whatever it is.
I never know if it's quadrilogy or tetralogy.
I have no
idea.
Anyway.
Anyway, the next series, we do get Selden being trapped there, so...
And some Chasm chapters, right? Yes.
I know, and the epigraph for this chapter is quite a long one, actually.
And it's an excerpt from Captain Banrop's Advice to Merchant Mariners.
And it kind of goes through...
It is an advice column, basically, and it tells prospective captains where they should sail and where they should set to port and what they should avoid.
Yeah, and it's really interesting because at the start, It says, And that's interesting to me personally, because why are we calling Chalcedon ports and cities old as evil itself?
So the way that it's framed makes me think that Captain Banrop is from the Six Duchies perspective.
One,
all of the epigraphs seem to be from the Six Duchies.
But two, it's describing a journey southward from north.
So I don't know.
They've always had...
War with Chalced, there's that saying in here that eventually there is going to be war with Chalced at some point.
And it sounds to me like Chalced is very, very old settlements.
Yeah, which I think I guess I find really interesting because we don't really get a lot of knowledge about Chalced outside of the fact that they have horrible moral beliefs and are not very nice people, according to all of their neighbors.
So we don't get a ton about Chalced.
what this place is like or what they actually do.
I guess next trilogy we'll get more of a look.
The quadrilogy, yeah, the tetralogy or whatever it is.
I never know if it's quadrilogy or tetralogy.
I have no
idea.
Anyway.
Anyway, the next series, we do get Selden being trapped there, so...
And some Chasm chapters, right? Yes.
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