#hierarchy

[scuffnotes]

Top row is left is sector 3 next sector 2 next sector 1

Middle row is heaven 0 related sinless but no extra credit wanting all knowing of God to over achieve only if highly threatened

Bottom row saving greatest for last

Royal heaven

[aadhube]

Minor gripe about Res Vis in Book 2/Strength of the Few (light spoilers) is....

The fact that he's just a glorified errand runner, lmfao.

Dude's a fucking Sextus, a rank that often signifies an entire mayor or headsman administrator of a land, like Fadrique, and all he does is ferry messages back and forth between Senators.

Fuck, even when he becomes a motherfucking QUINTUS, a rank that even some Senators like his godsdamned father with a renowned family name are, he keeps running messages and occasionally chipping in with his opinions. He only really becomes useful to provide leaked info that Ostius gives him, and his rank only seems to get him a bit of an inroad with the Senators with absolutely no actual work done.

But at least that's better than Aequa, who becomes a Quintus right off the bat and then we are not told a single THING about what she does for work other than her apprenticing under some Aedile. Apprenticing in what?!?!? Which department is this Aedile (rank unknown) even in?!?!? Presumably it has something to do with the Censor, but what exactly?!?!? What did Aequa even think about all the Proscriptions that the government released to basically tell people to kill tens of thousands for their property? Being in Governance and working with the Censor, wouldn't she have seen or interacted with that line of work? After all, the Censor is likely the department with all the information on people and their property and land and belongings...

[aadhube]

How Catenans will be describing Res Vis in Book 3

I swear, he NEEDS to go that route after what happened to him in Strength of the Few

[bl00d-f3t15h]

few phrases are as erotic as "chain of command"

[aadhube]

So......

What will Vis do about Decimus in Book 3?

What SHOULD he do?!?!??

[pinkypoodle]

I’m not trying to sound sadistic, but people put way too much of their own importance onto other people. Just because we’re friends doesn’t automatically make you a major priority in my life. I can like you without putting you on a pedestal or acting like you’re on some higher hierarchy. That doesn’t mean I don’t care about people, I just don’t do one sided relationships, even with friends. If the feeling isn’t mutual, then it’s not on me if I don’t vibe with you.

[highvizthecone]

Coming out or crawling in?