Another /4 chapter, which means a chapter that doesn't have Anton in it. And this chapter also does a good job of showing just how much I enjoy world building. There is a lot of exaggeration going on between these two so don't take everything they say as literal fact, but in reality what they were saying is mostly true. Think like Storm from the X-Men. In Africa, she was treated like a goddess because she could command the weather. So in ancient times before everything was really understood and when might made right, it only stood to reason that Manifestors would be treated like god-like beings. So a society like this would probably build religions based on the pantheons created by this phenomenon. And as it's an easy way to gain power, I'm sure some Manifestors would simply claim to be an old god reborn or returned rather than start a new religion.

As for Edmund, Othar and the Manifestor Hunter, they are being introduced now because it was a good place to do so and to show that there are people working behind the scenes. But most of what they are doing won't really come up for a very long time. Like you have to remember that Orelai is going to be a very long story. This is chapter 12. Anton probably won't even meet Edmund for another 100-150 chapters at the very least.

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