/lit/ - Literature

>>7970904
Which makes you wonder if he knew that he had to have an exit strategy in mind which was why he was grooming Andrys/descendant boy to kill him and take over as the Hunter.

At the end:
>How many sorcerers would practice their Art when death was the price of a Working? How many men would be willing to part with their lives as casually as they had once parted with books, or artifacts, or even the lives of others? Those few who might dare to Work wouldn’t be men of greed or cowardice now; the new rules would scare those away. Perhaps one man in a million would dare to pay the price the fae demanded, to serve a higher goal. Perhaps. As for the rest, they would observe that the fae was now a distant force, unWorkable ... and slowly the fae would respond to that belief, and become so in truth. As it had changed after Casca’s sacrifice, so it would change again.


So they can only Work if they are willing to die..

>>7970904
Which makes you wonder if he knew that he had to have an exit strategy in mind which was why he was grooming Andrys/descendant boy to kill him and take over as the Hunter.

At the end:
>How many sorcerers would practice their Art when death was the price of a Working? How many men would be willing to part with their lives as casually as they had once parted with books, or artifacts, or even the lives of others? Those few who might dare to Work wouldn’t be men of greed or cowardice now; the new rules would scare those away. Perhaps one man in a million would dare to pay the price the fae demanded, to serve a higher goal. Perhaps. As for the rest, they would observe that the fae was now a distant force, unWorkable ... and slowly the fae would respond to that belief, and become so in truth. As it had changed after Casca’s sacrifice, so it would change again.


So they can only Work if they are willing to die..