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I dont think that the insinuation from Einfasen was that Azune is one of theirs. I think Otto's insinuation, especially because he says something like "we'd be lucky if you were one of ours" is that Azune is a sorcerer from a Sundered House. But not one we've seen yet. One of the lost ones that died out in the Shaper's War. And that Otto thinks someone needs to figure out which lost heir to a destroyed Sundered House he's found.

romina is a washerwoman. she overhears things and is told gossip by coworkers and has decent memory recall but the stories tend to have gaps because she's in and out of the room and making a concentrated effort to not look like she's listening for her own safety

demodus is a wizard, so he's very good at information recall, so he can pull together almost the whole story with minimal gaps, but in a high stress situation there are bits he missed or didn't understand, and gaps because he didn't realize he should've been paying attention

cyd's been a spy for over a decade. his ability to recall what he heard even after a stressful situation is excellent, because that's been his whole job for thjazi since he moved to dol-makjar. he pretty much gives them the whole picture, is able to note gaps where they didn't mention a specific topic within earshot, and make connections. one conversation makes it very clear why thjazi asked him to spy

both fanfiction and podcasts give me a lot of feelings about the potential ephemerality of online media. obviously, no one plans for these things to vanish, but they do, and that lack of permanence gives me feelings. anyway, the silt verses was my first candidate for binding podcast transcripts, because even when you don’t have the audio, the prose is just fantastic.

i half-chose the cover paper because i wanted to nod to the birdwatcher’s book that carpenter disguises her copy as, and half because it’s just really nice paper and feels appropriate even though i’m pretty sure those are seaside birds

formatted in two columns and smaller font both as a space-saving measure (this came out to about 300 pages) and to evoke a biblical style.