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raven stratagem,,... i am Thinking about them 💆

Interestingly, the topic that’s caught my eye the most is the mention of children. Children have come up with Jedao again and again, either in conversations that he has begun, or in circumstances that he has found himself entangled in. The children that are the cores of the Hafn ships, the children that Jedao speaks of having had to kill, and the promise that he makes that he will never be so evil as to use children as the fuel for one of his wars. Perhaps this is because in children, Jedao see something redeemable: a chance at redemption he lost himself long ago. 

Raven Stratagem also has a number of profound quotes, on the topic of both the characters, and the nature of empires that thrive on war. This novel makes the true nature of the hexarchate a secret any longer; the hexarchs go so far as to discuss the genocide of an entire people just to manipulate a single person. Even the discussion of such an action is heinous, and makes the hexarchate all but irredeemable in my eyes.