The Return of the King was a prelude to the novel Newtons Sleep.
Summary[]
With the babel commentating, Chatelaine Thessalia reviews a registry of the Imperator's visit to her in House Ixion a week before his inauguration.
Plot[]
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Characters[]
- Chatelaine Thessalia
- The babel
- The Imperator
Worldbuilding[]
- There is a citadel on the Homeworld.
- The Imperator and Thessalia were woven together on House Dvora's "shining silver looms."
Notes[]
- As Thessalia recalls the foundation of the Order of the Weal, the babel misquotes Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, substituting the phrase "Common Weal" for "Commonwealth".[1]
Continuity[]
- According to the babel, the Great Houses would have eventually called the Imperator "War King," a title used much later during the War in Heaven. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
- Thessalia refers to the southern mountains as a place home to hermits (TV: State of Decay) and feral cats. (AUDIO: Erasure, et al.)