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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalanyr" data-source="post: 1528309" data-attributes="member: 190">WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS GAPING HUGE SPOILERS FOR THE WAYFARER REDEMPTION TRILOGY AND THE AXIS TRILOGY (for the Aussies and UKer's) and Spoilers for the Entire Wayfarer Redemption (um thing of Six Books) for you weird <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Americans.!The Wayfarer Redemption isn't the first book, I'm pretty sure the Axis Trilogy (Battle Axe,Enchanter,Starman) came first which was followed by the Wayfarer Redemption (Sinner,Pilgrim,Crusader). The original trilogy, especially Battleaxe, focuses more heavily on the Racism, by the time of the Wayfarer Redemption its been 20 years since (IIRC) so the racism has died down somewhat.  Spoiler for those who haven't read Books 3+:[spoiler]Yeah the Greek Names got me a bit too but I suspect Noah was just a thinly veiled Earth Man and he did name the races (also if IIRC) so he might have done so deliberately just like he picked the name Noah[/spoiler].Edit- After some looking on the Web I've found that the trilogies are compiled into 1 six book Wayfarer series. You didn't see any Racism in Battleaxe ? There was an entire town, who was happy to stone people to death for associating with the People of the Horn. And by the third book in the Trilogy it gets a lot worse.Edit 2- More spoilers for books between 3 and 6 which will indirectly spoil 2.[spoiler]Noah doesn't show up to the 5th book (Pilgrim) so that probably made no sense but the Earth influence should start to make a bit more sense by the 3rd book. But I'll leave off here before the spoilers get to think. [/spoiler]The Poety -> Yeah agreed, but the same can be said of Tolkien's. I think it's just not the main focus so not as much work goes into it, the bits of real world poetry at the start of each book are a bit sillier at times I admit, their connection is usualy fairly tennuous (dunno if these are still in the American books). The Characters -> Yeah , that at least is true, I thought that when I first read these books when I was between 13 and 16ish. But the Author describes it as heroic fantasy and one of the tropes is that Evil People wear Black and Goodguys wear White. The Hand of Plot -> The Prophecy says what has to be achieved or REALLY BAD THINGS (TM) will happen, this isn't completely unusual, and quiet a few of those guides aren't as clear as they seem, they have much more twisted meanings revealed in the later books (and in the actual wayfarer redemption books: [spoiler]It's shown that that Prophecy was written so clearly because its just a gateway for another one.[/spoiler]. If you think what she did to her world was bad with the Prophecy wait until you see the last 3 books she [spoiler] goes Weis and Hickman (ie: Destroy the area of the world the books take place in beyond any hope of repair beyond major authorial FIAT requiring at least 3 more books.) [/spoiler] on her world.Edit 3 -> Realised some of my non-edit stuff was big spoilers due to the different american publication. Tagged them appropriately.</blockquote>

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