This week we talk about the episode 31 of Chapter 2.1.
In this chapter, entitled "Darkness", our focus is on what's going on in the background, and behind that is, unbeknownst to our heroes.
When I started writing this book, I had not thought about whether he should do so in person, that is with an "I" narrator (which could be Alice). But apart from several other considerations that made me abandon that idea (in a nutshell, I do not think a book like this for this trick to work) and one in particular can be expressed here. If I had used a narrator would have had only one point of view (or rather, two: that of the protagonist and the reader): I could not do things like you see in this chapter, where we are now seeing some minor characters, such as Ghebers the secretary of the Dean of the Academy of Magic, and the chief priests of Babylon intent to plot against our protagonists.
These cut scenes "film" (B-movie style, with fading between scenes) are possible only with a "camera" mounted very high above the set and not placed behind the eyes of a single character.
However in this chapter there are two separate issues: one is the tramacci Saga, those of the other priests. So on the one hand the first moves of the Academy, on the other, Babylon, of those "enemies."
In the academy, as seen especially in Chapter 28, he always knows things are going in a boring routine, and indeed, as how that chapter note Sendo, when he was (no more than three weeks before!) To school, there was a bad trend, a way of life, that was what we who are outside history, described as "a typical story to light novel" with school comedy.
short, tsundere girls (Dorothy), the usual antagonists snooty, a bumbling protagonist, magic and destruction ... but now for Sendo all sounds almost ridiculous: it's a bit like if you were saying, "warning, this book is about school comedy, but only remotely ... all this is over!
fact now came Saga, one of the founders of the Academy itself, and old engines and gears operate again. The Dean, briefly introduced as "an old man a bit stupid" begins to see something quite different under the bark; characters seemingly "flat" not at all. All this is explained and filtered through the figure of the braggart Ghebers: Ghebers for there are certain balances. He is the Secretary, the other not, he does, the others are not . Everything works inside his little world, as he created it and sees it.
But now everything is reversed: they weigh Mirina, he has always regarded as a nuisance, a fool who can not see where you can find a way to cling to achieve success in the Academy, turns out to be much more in the economy of the Academy itself. It reverses the values, in other words: first, in a "normal" situation, Ghebers was at the top of the pyramid, now in a situation of danger, Ghebers is at the bottom. It is self-evident image
the same Saga: it is the most powerful magician in the world but has a body that girl!
In the second part we see for the first time the high priests and the old friend Reva. There is a description of environment that I've done in a way that I particularly like, or with a whole series of references and allusions to "things tell, "ancient entity, the previous construction by man dug deep abbissali.
E 'transparent reference to dear old pulps of the twenties, from Conan to Lovecraft. Against this backdrop of mystery and strange figures suspension, all masks are made stage.
the chief priests wear a mask all, young (and those of lower rank from old), this is because they are "born again" as new beings in the world (and those of lower rank are "elders" who are about to be reborn with death). Each of them has different masks and different roles: overseeing the main functions of the Empire, indeed, of human life. There is a Dream, one of Death, one of Violence / War ... are made in view of the good old bad characterization of the canons of the most popular shonen manga (and retract).
This scene is an opportunity to explain some dark holes in the story, largely complements the explanation of chapter 26 in the Saga of the Nazis because they were in Babylon, because the dragons of the garden had attacked the villages and so on. In that chapter Saga suggested that simply looking clothes and had not stopped at nothing, not even a fact that would certainly have attracted the interest of the whole empire, or the destruction of an entire garden! In reality it turns out that the political situation in the Empire is very complex, and there are several factions within who plot against each other ... Another mystery is then introduced, which will serve us much further down the field to bring in a fantastic plot twist (and already we have seen in Chapter 30 of surprises)!
be noted when discussing Beherooz: This figure appears in a separate chapter in the first volume, during the attack of Russian Thampsacus. But the length of the piece led him to be cut in subsequent revisions. Here is invoked because it still is, but in a footnote to explain who you are talking, otherwise the quote would seem a very dark character forgotten. The cut part of the book has been previously uploaded to this blog some time ago, and can be found in the download section.
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