Lor

Lor is a powerful mercantile nation and the acknowledged great rival of Pallesand across the known world, its people collectively called the Loruthi. Governed by the Loruthi Palatine Council, Lor has long built its global presence not through standing garrisons but through trade missions whose "milled edges of their coins" burrow into the hierarchies of kingdoms and despotates, producing domination without uniformed soldiers. Its empire encompasses holdings, outposts, and colonies overseas, and its nationals conduct international business in Pel, the constructed lingua franca they share with the Palleseen. The identification of the Loruthi as the people of Lor is made explicit in the diplomatic correspondence of Lives of Bitter Rain, where the emissary Tarcomir introduces himself as Bashonin and official representative of the Loruthi nation.

Lor matters to the series as the external axis around which Pallesand's imperial overreach, military strain, and internal politics are defined. The Loruthi war is the single most consequential conflict in the timeline: it drives the grinding trench attrition and prisoner exchanges of House of Open Wounds, the diplomatic catastrophe and personal betrayal of Lives of Bitter Rain, the punitive treaty terms and political purges of Days of Shattered Faith, and the ghostly occupation-and-occupation-aftermath that haunts the siege of Eres Ffenegh in Pretenders to the Throne Of God. Even in City of Last Chances, where no war is yet being fought, Lor's trade cartel and a shuttered leopard-god temple make its commercial and religious footprint visible in Ilmar's streets.

The arc across the five books traces Lor from a distant, tolerated trading power with a presence in Palleseen-occupied cities, through open and escalating war on contested Bracite soil, to a defeated rival whose global reach is legally severed by treaty, whose agents are recalled in disgrace, and whose cultural residue-minefields, banned fishing songs, card-divination techniques, smut novels-persists for years after the last shot. The Loruthi who began the series as leery foreign nationals become, by its close, a nation defined by what the Palleseen have taken from them and what they are still permitted to keep.

The Group

Composition

Lor is a nation-state rather than a single body, but its institutional shape is consistent across the books. The Loruthi Palatine Council governs from the capital and dispatches envoys; its foreign service is headed by a Palatine Minister of Foreign Affairs to whom overseas emissaries report. Holders of the title Bashonin serve as official national representatives in foreign courts, as Tarcomir does in Alkhalend. Within the military, a Loruthi Grand Marshal commands field forces and appears at diplomatic ceremonies as the senior military delegate. Below these, embassy staff act as seconds and administrative functionaries, and the broader population of Loruthi merchants, university attendees, and colonial factors extend the nation's reach through commercial rather than military channels.

A cultural fingerprint marks the Loruthi in Palleseen eyes: they favour heavy medals, braid, and gold-beaded decoration on their persons, fight with a curved hacking blade called a falchion in a discipline termed clavamachy, and practise card divination as a recognised innovation. Their literature includes a body of racy popular fiction that the Palleseen counter-propaganda apparatus distributes behind the Loruthi lines as deliberately corrupting material.

Purpose & Method

Lor exists to trade, and its method is to convert commercial advantage into political control. The Loruthi Trade Missions "used the milled edges of their coins to burrow into the hierarchies of whichever kingdom or despotate they decided was profitable," a formula that produces domination without uniformed soldiers. Where that formula meets resistance, the Loruthi deploy organised military force: they reunified Southern Bracinta by armed march after its civil war, seized a strategic "march" by occupying territory the Palleseen had also claimed, and fielded large battalions capable of breaking two fresh Palleseen battalions in a single day's fighting. Their military method includes traps, minefields, earthworks, and shrapnel artillery when they choose to fight defensively, and overwhelming concentration of force when they choose to attack.

Standing

For most of the series Lor is Pallesand's peer and declared enemy. The two powers split Bracinta between them-the north under Palleseen "support," the south as "the jewel in the Loruthi overseas crown"-and conduct open war across the Bracite interior, at sea, and through client states such as Gorbudan in Usmai. The Palleseen occupying force in Ilmar is "generally leery of" the Loruthi as nationals of a large state outside the Sway. After the war, the Palleseen terms of the peace treaty end Lor's global reach; its diplomatic staff are recalled, its emissaries face disgrace at home, and its prior occupation of Eres Ffenegh is reversed by Pal forces. In the post-war period, Sage-Broker Berkely operates in Lor's wake to exclude it from Usmai trade. By the events of Pretenders to the Throne Of God, four years have passed since the war's end, and the Loruthi are publicly characterised as "thugs who kicked in doors of refugees"-a defeated enemy whose lingering infrastructure (minefields, banned songs, occupied buildings) still defines the landscape the Palleseen must now hold.

Known members

• Tarcomir - emissary

History

City of Last Chances

Lor appears in City of Last Chances as a foreign nation of considerable size and power situated outside the Palleseen Sway, and its nationals are treated in Ilmar with a mixture of commercial accommodation and underlying unease. The Palleseen occupying force "were generally leery of" the Loruthi as nationals of a large and powerful state outside the Palleseen Sway - ch 25. The Maric population of Ilmar is contrasted throughout the book with Allorwen, Loruthi, and Palleseen outsiders; a Maric youth fears Mirror Allor's charms and wards, situating the Loruthi among the alien forces pressing upon native Maric culture - ch 12.

The most concrete institutional presence of Lor in the city is the Loruthi cartel, a trading operation with a tradehouse on Liberation Way in the wealthy district, near the Mahanic Temple - ch 25. The cartel employs Johanger Tulmueric, a Loruthi merchant who maintains a suite of rooms above the tradehouse and resides in Ilmar for six months a year. During the unrest Tulmueric remains in his rooms, resents the high cost of living in his district, and skims art from the tradehouse displays - ch 25. He is murdered by Fleance with a knife while being interrogated for "the ward" - ch 25.

A residual trace of older Loruthi religious activity survives in the city's material record. On Crab Way stands the site of an old Loruthi temple to a leopard god, shut down by the Palleseen - ch 12. A broken wooden cat statue from this closed temple, with one gem eye intact and its legs and tail splintered, is brought to Blackmane's pawnshop by a Maric youth and is being examined there when Mother Guame enters - ch 12.

Fleance's search for "the thing" leads him to the Loruthi as one of several institutional targets. He bursts into Blackmane's premises possessed by the ghost of an Indweller he killed, wearing their flayed skin, and rages that he searched the Loruthi, a Vulture, an Armiger, and a Gownhall maestro for "the thing" and found none - ch 36. The Loruthi are thus one node in a failed sequence of enquiries, their tradehouse and its occupants yielding nothing to Fleance's desperate hunt.

House of Open Wounds

Lor is a nation and its people (referred to throughout by the demonym Loruthi) are at war with Pallesand for the duration of the book. The conflict is described by Jack simply as "the Loruthi war," a name he uses to distinguish the ongoing campaign from the broader Palleseen Wars of Perfection - ch 7. The two powers sit on opposite sides of Bracinta, a protectorate split between them - ch 4, ch 20.

Early in the book, the war is already grinding. A spy in the battalion holds Loruthi secrets for Higher Orders - ch 4. A war-effort programme distributes contraband Loruthi literature behind enemy lines: books printed by the people of Lor in Pel but using the language subversively, designed to spread "morally corrupting literature" - ch 6. Ollery reads one such volume, a Loruthi smut novel, in his tent, reflecting on the stultifying nature of official Palleseen writing - ch 6. Banders picks up and distributes the subversive texts "for coins and favours" - ch 6. On the local front, the Loruthi have left traps and "nasty surprises" for the vanguard - ch 11. Prassel prepares thirty-nine corpses with tableth for vanguard duty against the Loruthi - ch 11. The department strikes camp on contested ground between the Pal and Loruthi lines; casualties from a pre-dawn scout skirmish with the Loruthi arrive before packing is finished - ch 12. During a subsequent retreat, Prassel snaps at Cosserby to move before Loruthi artificers find him, using the phrase "strategic withdrawal" acidly - ch 14.

A night skirmish with four Loruthi soldiers - two men, two women, wearing long grey coats and tall shakos - provides the book's most detailed physical portrait of the enemy. Both sides draw batons simultaneously; the Loruthi load tableth ammunition into their weapons. Paucelry is killed, Klimmel stabs a Loruthi with a knife, Lidlet is shot through the breast, and Masty is shot; Banders kills the remaining Loruthi woman. One Loruthi animal is shot during the skirmish and its horse is taken by the Pal group - ch 15. The narrator comments: "The Loruthi never wanted a war with the Palleseen and, to their credit, the Palleseen didn't particularly want a war with them either." - ch 15.

The field hospital of the Forthright Battalion sits on the rear lines of the Loruthi front - ch 16. Lor is described as a nation with a trade empire encompassing holdings, outposts, and colonies overseas - ch 16. Eight days before the chapter's present, the Loruthi counterattack has overrun the position, blinding Alv and leaving Banders, Masty, and Jack missing - ch 16. Orders then arrive to move the Forthright Battalion overseas as reinforcements against Loruthi holdings, a reprieve from the grinding local front - ch 16.

Pirisytes provides the strategic and political exposition of Lor's relationship to Bracinta. Pallesand "had thrown down with the big trading nation of Lor" - ch 20. Southern Bracinta was "the jewel in the Loruthi overseas crown," a fractured kingdom forcibly reunified by the Loruthi after its civil war; the reunification "stolen a march" following the Palleseen-Lor war declaration, sending the Landwards Battalion south - ch 20. The Loruthi Trade Missions are described as a mercantile domination system: they "used the milled edges of their coins to burrow into the hierarchies of whichever kingdom or despotate they decided was profitable," producing domination without uniformed soldiers - ch 20. Northern Bracinta remains under Pal "support" - ch 20.

The advance toward a fortified city produces a striking anti-climax. The Loruthi "didn't even leave a token garrison, just melted away before the superior numbers of the Palleseen. The whole day passed without a single shot being fired and their solitary casualty was brought low by nothing more than a rabbit burrow." - ch 21. The city gates open to a welcoming populace; the only casualty is a soldier who trips into a rabbit burrow - ch 21.

A brief history of Bracinta notes that Loruthi trade factors had undermined Palleseen authority in the southern regions - ch 22. The liberation of Magnelei is achieved at trivial cost and celebrated with rummell rations - ch 22. The army subsequently marches against the Loruthi in two days; Magnelei's formal Loruthi defence has been stripped - ch 32.

The fiercest clash of the entire war occurs near Magnelei. Two fresh Palleseen battalions are broken; the Loruthi pause only for night, and a quartermaster notes that Bracinta is the "Money-basket for the whole Loruthi Sway" - ch 35. The Loruthi Sway is the political body of the Loruthi people - ch 35. A soldier's bitter exclamation captures the scale of the defeat: "Who had 'All the Loruthi in the world turning up at once' on their card, because you can claim your winnings." - ch 35. The next day the retreat continues; the Loruthi are not stopping - ch 35.

After the defeat, the Loruthi advance within sight of Magnelei and both armies sit in a tense standoff. The Bracite population is distrusted by the Palleseen, who have retreated to the opposite side of the city - ch 37. Prassel refers to the enemy informally as "Lorries" - ch 37. Sherm presses Prassel to take on a prisoner exchange with the Loruthi; she refuses, citing workload - ch 37. A negotiated prisoner exchange between Pallesand and Lor is eventually conducted in the Magnelei city square, with officer delegations from both sides, Bracite civilian overseers, and attending servants; Jack serves as medical checker - ch 40. Both sides speak Pel, the constructed common language designed for ease of use - ch 40. Senior Palleseen Inquirers and Loruthi officers meet to negotiate terms - ch 40.

The Loruthi subsequently fall back to their side of Magnelei; Tallifer foresees a siege if either side gets "a bloody nose" - ch 45. The Loruthi then stop retreating, dig in behind earthworks, and deploy new shrapnel artillery causing terrible lacerations among Palleseen casualties - ch 46.

In the political thread, Bracinta is split between Pallesand and Lor, and the Loruthi are described as oppressors to be freed from - ch 48. The Bracite delegation visits both the Palleseen and the Loruthi command, playing both sides; Prassel states the obvious, and the old Sage-Inquirer concludes they must attend Feder's coronation and make a better show than the Loruthi would - ch 48. At the coronation itself, both Palleseen and Loruthi delegations are stage-managed by Bracites and kept apart until they file into the great hall, where they face each other across two long tables and immediately scheme to fracture the coalition supporting Feder - ch 50. A Loruthi Grand Marshal is seated opposite Scaffesty; the two delegations are "united for once" only in their exasperation at Bracite ceremony, each expecting the other to attack - ch 50. Both Pal and Loruthi speak Pel, called "a straightforward language" - ch 50.

Lives of Bitter Rain

Lor is a nation whose people, the Loruthi, are established early in the book as one of two great powers alongside Pallesand, characterised as "canny merchant-adventurers" who parceled up the known world alongside the Palleseen - ch 5. In the context of Bracinta's failed succession a decade before the novel's present, the viziers called in both the Pals and the Loruthi after the halls of the Wolf Palace ran red with blood; the Loruthi received merchant factors in the southern plantations, dealing in turmeric, wine, and walking fish, as part of the post-succession settlement - ch 5. Bracinta's north retains a Palleseen garrison under a standing invitation from the viziers, while the south remains Loruthi territory - ch 5. A character summarises their reach and temperament: "The Loruthi are all over that part of the world. Clever people. Open the door a crack, they're already in by the window." - ch 6.

The nation's diplomatic presence in Alkhalend is represented by Tarcomir, who holds the title Bashonin as official emissary of Lor and introduces himself to Angilly as her opposite number; neither yet trusts the other - ch 7. The Loruthi are noted for favouring heavy medals, braid, and gold-beaded decoration on their persons - ch 7. Tarcomir has been in post six years by the novel's present - ch 8. The Killinbraan Nautical Institute, a resupply township on a knot of islands discovered two generations ago by Palleseen and Loruthi mariners, is half Palleseen phal, half Loruthi university, attended by spare children of the wealthy from many nations - ch 8.

The Loruthi conduct international business in Pel, the Palleseen lingua franca, even as the two powers' interests clash mercantile, political, and now military - ch 9. Tarcomir reports to the Palatine Minister of Foreign Affairs, a Loruthi diplomatic body whose dispatches grow increasingly hysterical about Palleseen encroachment - ch 9. Tarcomir spends Gorbudan's time in Usmai, edging out Palleseen influence, and offers Angilly favours regarding suppression of a monk order - ch 9. Angilly acknowledges that Gorbudan's accession would shift the balance of power against the Pals because "What should concern her about Gorbudan's accession is that he favours the Loruthi over her own people. As Usmai carries the weight in this part of the world, that will shift the balance of power against the Pals dramatically." - ch 9. Four days after a scene at the Alkhand's court, "word comes on the swiftest courier skiff out of Peor. War has been declared between Lor and Pallesand." - ch 9.

During the war, the Loruthi use Gorbudan to attack Palleseen holdings; Gorbudan raids at the Loruthi's behest, and Angilly remarks of him, "I think he's currently setting fire to my countryfolk across the border, with the tacit backing of the Loruthi" - ch 10. At court the Alkhand denounces Gorbudan for breaking the neutrality decree and allying with the Loruthi, banishing him and all who ride with him, before naming Dekamran heir - ch 10. Tarcomir, described as Angilly's "friend and enemy," is killed by Angilly a year later, in the very shadow of the war's end - ch 10.

Days of Shattered Faith

Lor is a powerful mercantile state identified in this book as Pallesand's great rival across the world, a conflict between the two having been recently concluded by treaty - ch 1. The Palleseen terms of that treaty ended Lor's global reach, a fact that Sage-Invigilator 'Gil' Angilly acknowledges as the cause of her former friend Tarcomir's disgrace - ch 2. The governing body of Lor is the Loruthi Palatine Council, which dispatches envoys and maintains a diplomatic service abroad - ch 2. The Loruthi speak a language called Pel, adopted by trained Loruthi diplomats as well as by the Palleseen; Tarcomir is noted for speaking "his good Pel" - ch 2. Loruthi combat style employs a curved hacking blade called a falchion, described as "not quite an Usmiat clavar," and the associated fighting form is termed clavamachy, in contrast to the Palleseen rapier discipline of skiamachy - ch 2.

The book's opening confrontation directly implicates Lor's diplomatic apparatus. Tarcomir, holding the Loruthi title of Bashonin, serves as Emissary of the Loruthi Palatine Council in Alkhalend and is due to be recalled as part of the peace treaty; needing a Palleseen Resident's death to avoid being "burned in effigy" at home, he challenges Angilly to an illegal duel to the death - ch 2. Angilly kills him with a Palleseen rapier while he fights with a Loruthi falchion, the mismatched pair permitted only because both are foreigners under Usmiat law - ch 2. Two unnamed Loruthi embassy staff act as seconds and retrieve the body - ch 2. The Loruthi Palatine Council sends Tarcomir as Emissary to Usmai, and his staff will be recalled under the treaty terms - ch 2.

The day after the duel, the Alkhand Oparan formally rules that the killing of the Loruthi emissary belongs to the Palleseen-Lor war, "a thing belonging to your war, and not a thing belonging to my nation, or within my jurisdiction," and stays his hand from punishment - ch 6. Alkhand Dekamran warns Angilly that the next courier ship from Lor will carry "sharp letters" regarding the ambassador's death, a threat she dismisses - ch 6. The notes record that "the Loruthi riding high" characterised the old succession politics in which Gorbudan cultivated Loruthi friendship as a counterweight to the Palleseen - ch 6, ch 5. During the war, Gorbudan had raided and taken sides with the Loruthi - ch 43 - and Tarcomir had once told him magically challenging ways to deal with Palleseen flying islands - ch 18. The Loruthi also held Helsa Broda before Flint Postry's midnight attack there - ch 23.

A later reflection underscores the war's magnitude: "You should see the letters I get from home, Resident. I get professors and secretaries to the Commission practically begging me. You don't know just how much it cost us to beat the Loruthi." - ch 34. In the post-war period, Sage-Broker Berkely intends to make Usmai "a dry country to trade in" for nations beyond the Sway, operating in Lor's wake - ch 37.

Throughout, Angilly's reflections frame the Loruthi conflict as one of the conflicts she survived: she lost "not to the Loruthi, not to Gorbudan, but to her own people" - ch 45. The specific causes of the Palleseen-Lor war and the precise nature of the enmity between Angilly and Tarcomir during it remain unelaborated in this book - ch 2. The contents of the threatened "sharp letters" from Lor are likewise never delivered or specified - ch 6.

Pretenders to the Throne Of God

Lor is a powerful mercantile nation and its people, the Loruthi, are identified throughout the narrative as the enemy in a war the Palleseen have recently concluded. The conflict is publicly acknowledged and has formally ended; the Loruthi were defeated, and their prior occupation of Eres Ffenegh has been reversed by Pal forces - ch 6. Four years have passed since the end of the Loruthi war at the point when the seven-month siege of Eres Ffenegh begins - ch 6. The war's conclusion was certified by the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means, which produced what Dantell recalls as "a very satisfactory piece of paper" - ch 11. In the earliest reference, Varinecthes is described as having been "employed on the other side" in the conflict, indicating that Lor contracted the sorcerer's services against the Palleseen - ch 1.

The Loruthi's conduct during the war is recalled in hostile terms: they are characterised as thugs who kicked in doors of refugees - ch 5. Their occupation of Eres Ffenegh, a coastal city, was in part a military-logging measure, as they had used the site as a resupply point - ch 28. Their military footprint persists into the present occupation in the form of minefields left behind in the surrounding countryside, which the Hospitallers briefing materials covered but which the young soldier missed - ch 29.

The war's aftermath reshaped the Palleseen military apparatus. The Temporary Commission was established to uncover and cull religious and occult contamination from the ranks in the war's wake - ch 7. Quellery enumerates the purges that followed: the Hospitallers, Fisher King devotees, and other believers were driven out after the Loruthi war - ch 35. In Eres Ffenegh itself, Brandery gives a rehearsed account of still rooting out Loruthi sympathisers at the moment the Os-Fferegh revolted and the Perfector defenestrated herself - ch 31. A Sage-Monitor earned her rank during the war against the Loruthi, before being summoned to the Archipelago by Fowlett for purposes that proved exile - ch 38.

Certain cultural and technical practices are attributed to the Loruthi. Card divination is identified as "a Loruthi innovation"; Istreddy performs an elaborate card reading in Brandery's command tent regarding the utility of newly arrived reinforcements - ch 6. Card-reading and divination techniques are more broadly described as "Loruthi and Divinati techniques" - ch 28. The Loruthi language itself survives as a working tongue in the Palleseen conjuring context: Kaele speaks the Loruthi word to fire Quellery's baton - ch 41, and a bound demon issues its challenge to a dead champion in Os, Pel, and Loruthi among other languages - ch 26.

Under Loruthi occupation, the Boat Songs of the fishing fleet and trading costers were banned under penalty of death for even humming a line; the songs are now sung openly as an act of rebellion while the Pals press the gate - ch 10. The Loruthi people also produce a body of popular fiction characterised by racy stories and romanticised power-dynamics narratives; this literature was distributed "secretly amongst Pal soldiers to weaken discipline" during the war, and its tropes-the innocent priest seduced by a succubus, the husband whose wife has adventures-supply the idiom in which Jack frames his memories of Caeleen - ch 39.

A significant theological development traces its origin to the war with the Loruthi. A rumour spread through Palleseen army camps during the conflict concerning a paper a soldier could sign, by which God would heal the badly wounded at a price. The Palleseen "repurposed the ignorant superstitions of other cultures into something reliable and useful," and the resulting God contract was signed in war camps and later spread to the Archipelago - ch 29. Dantell recalls what the Archipelago "deployed against the Loruthi," a phrase that remains unspecified in the available account - ch 11.

Relationships

• Pallesand - Lor's permanent great rival. The two powers parceled up the known world together, share the language Pel, and alternate between mercantile competition and open war. The Loruthi war runs through four of the five books as the central external conflict. In peacetime the Palleseen are "leery of" Loruthi nationals; in wartime the enmity is grinding and mutual, with both sides preferring not to fight at all until events force them. After the treaty, Lor is the defeated peer whose reach the Palleseen have legally curtailed.
• Bracinta - The contested ground. The Loruthi hold the south, the Palleseen the north, and Bracinta is "the Money-basket for the whole Loruthi Sway." Southern Bracinta was the jewel of Lor's overseas empire, forcibly reunified after its civil war. The Bracite population plays both sides and is distrusted by the Palleseen. Bracite delegations attend Feder's coronation and stage-manage both Pal and Loruthi delegations.
• Tarcomir - Bashonin and Emissary of the Loruthi Palatine Council in Alkhalend. He is Angilly's opposite number, "friend and enemy," and a man neither of them yet trusts. He serves six years in post, reports to the Palatine Minister of Foreign Affairs, and is ultimately killed by Angilly in an illegal duel to the death-the killing that triggers Alkhand Oparan's jurisdictional ruling. His recall is demanded by the peace treaty; his death is what his superiors would have burned him in effigy for having.
• Angilly - Palleseen Resident in Alkhalend and Tarcomir's counterpart. She killed him with a Palleseen rapier while he fought with a Loruthi falchion, a mismatched pair permitted only because both are foreigners under Usmiat law. She later reflects that she lost "not to the Loruthi, not to Gorbudan, but to her own people," framing the Loruthi conflict as one of the wars she survived rather than the one that broke her.
• Gorbudan - A rival heir in Usmai who cultivated Loruthi friendship as a counterweight to the Palleseen. He raided Palleseen holdings at the Loruthi's behest, leading the Alkhand to denounce him for breaking neutrality and allying with the Loruthi. Angilly observes that his accession would shift the balance of power against the Pals because "he favours the Loruthi over her own people."
• Varinecthes - A sorcerer "employed on the other side" during the Loruthi war. The Loruthi hold title to three of four inherited claims on his promises, binding his service to Lor's interest.
• Prassel - Fellow-Inquirer in the Forthright Battalion who refers to the enemy informally as "Lorries," prepares corpses with tableth for vanguard duty against Loruthi positions, and refuses prisoner-exchange workload on grounds of capacity.
• Banders - A soldier who "could pick it up and distribute it for coins and favours," including the subversive Loruthi literature dropped behind enemy lines, and who kills the last Loruthi woman in the night skirmish.
• Johanger Tulmueric - A Loruthi merchant and employee of the Loruthi cartel in Ilmar, resident six months a year in rooms above the tradehouse on Liberation Way. He is murdered by Fleance during an interrogation for "the ward."
• Scaffesty - Senior Palleseen diplomat seated opposite a Loruthi Grand Marshal at Feder's coronation. The two delegations are "united for once" only in their exasperation at Bracite ceremony, each expecting the other to attack.
• Jack - Medical orderly in the Forthright Battalion. He names the conflict "the Loruthi war" to distinguish it from the broader Palleseen Wars of Perfection, serves as medical checker at the Magnelei prisoner exchange, and is among those missing after the Loruthi counterattack.
• Ollery - Chief Accessory who reads a Loruthi smut novel in his tent, reflecting on the stultifying nature of official Palleseen writing.

Notable Quotes

"The Loruthi never wanted a war with the Palleseen and, to their credit, the Palleseen didn't particularly want a war with them either." - narrator, House of Open Wounds, ch 15

"The Loruthi are all over that part of the world. Clever people. Open the door a crack, they're already in by the window." - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 6

"You should see the letters I get from home, Resident. I get professors and secretaries to the Commission practically begging me. You don't know just how much it cost us to beat the Loruthi." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 34

"Who had 'All the Loruthi in the world turning up at once' on their card, because you can claim your winnings." - House of Open Wounds, ch 35

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