{"id":451,"date":"2009-10-31T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2009-11-04T22:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T04:54:17","slug":"and-forward-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"And Forward Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will remember the &#8220;Rules of Aare&#8221; quoted and discussed extensively in <em>Surrender None<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Some will also remember the various mentions of Old Aare, legends and stories and songs about that mysterious land and the &#8220;fall&#8221; of Aare that brought the magelords across the sea.\u00a0\u00a0 You know it&#8217;s across the Immerhoft Sea from Aarenis, and that Aarenis was named for it:\u00a0 &#8220;Daughter of Aare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the deep mysteries of Old Aare are central to the long story arc of this group of books&#8230;what happened in Aare has had consquences affecting the entire north as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are a few hints of this in <em>Oath of Fealty<\/em>, though it&#8217;s mostly concerned with the immediate consequences of Kieri&#8217;s\u00a0 move to Lyonya.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More show up in book two.\u00a0\u00a0 Paks unwittingly involved herself in the affairs of Aare, elves, dwarves, dragons,\u00a0 and magelords even before she became a paladin&#8230;everyone she touched is changed by that, as well as just her personality and more obvious paladin qualities.<\/p>\n<p>So a lot of questions will be answered, though I can&#8217;t promise they all will be (in fact, probably not.\u00a0 Just the big ones.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will remember the &#8220;Rules of Aare&#8221; quoted and discussed extensively in Surrender None.\u00a0\u00a0 Some will also remember the various mentions of Old Aare, legends and stories and songs about that mysterious land and the &#8220;fall&#8221; of Aare that brought the magelords across the sea.\u00a0\u00a0 You know it&#8217;s across the Immerhoft Sea from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[108,13],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","tag-background","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}