*dances* and chapter 19 shouldn't too far away either. Although I've found a downside to fanart. What was I thinking when I drew the Desidinder picture? Oy.
On speculation:
I had thought, from her conversation with Gar, that Hilde had been used by whatever is behind Wynneth herself back when she earned the appellation 'Shipbreaker'.
Of course, I don't think she's as free as she thinks she is. She manipulated Dasma and Alieva into fighting, and arranged for the most powerful secrets of shadow magic to be lost or destroyed. Getting her 'revenge' on Dasma and Alieva and isolating Shadow to be her playground.
This of course left Wynneth as the only Shadow Mage who can travel to Shadow, and set the Sisterhood up for Wynneth's trap.
That and if she were behind it, she'd have known about the Key already. When Ranma uses the key it hurts Wynneth's controller and frees her mind from it, briefly.
The Two who are the lock, and the one who is the key, I'd though were Wynneth and Hotaru (Wynneth obviously has plans for her), and Ranma.
Of course I could be completely wrong about everything. I though Quincy was Arcanum after Doug's fight with the Sabers.
I'm looking forward to Hotaru's reaction when she finds out what Ranma is.
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"I love the smell of bookstores in the morning. It smells
like...literacy."
-- Lawrence Person, rec.arts.books
On speculation:
I had thought, from her conversation with Gar, that Hilde had been used by whatever is behind Wynneth herself back when she earned the appellation 'Shipbreaker'.
Of course, I don't think she's as free as she thinks she is. She manipulated Dasma and Alieva into fighting, and arranged for the most powerful secrets of shadow magic to be lost or destroyed. Getting her 'revenge' on Dasma and Alieva and isolating Shadow to be her playground.
This of course left Wynneth as the only Shadow Mage who can travel to Shadow, and set the Sisterhood up for Wynneth's trap.
That and if she were behind it, she'd have known about the Key already. When Ranma uses the key it hurts Wynneth's controller and frees her mind from it, briefly.
The Two who are the lock, and the one who is the key, I'd though were Wynneth and Hotaru (Wynneth obviously has plans for her), and Ranma.
Of course I could be completely wrong about everything. I though Quincy was Arcanum after Doug's fight with the Sabers.
I'm looking forward to Hotaru's reaction when she finds out what Ranma is.
--
"I love the smell of bookstores in the morning. It smells
like...literacy."
-- Lawrence Person, rec.arts.books