Scales

I'm going to make a prediction: the Acharites believe that when they die they go to either heaven with Artor or hell (with more focus on hell), the Icarii believe they go to 'the land of their ancestors', and the Avar are assumed to hold the same beliefs as the Icarii.

NRSG: I do think it will shake out quite differently from this, but I do not know the details yet...

Seas are notoriously unpredictable, what makes the Andeis remarkable in this regard? Is it stormy? Is the coastline prone to undertows or tidal surges? Are the currents bad? All of the above like Capes Horn and Good Hope?

I think it is "stormy" here, though I would think the Widowmaker Sea would be more notorious...

She means it allowed them to cease being nomadic.

Yes, I understood that. I would just have preferred something like "allowed them to settle in a single place", because what we got is a little clunky.

Real question here is 'was the plough truly unknown before, and if so how the heck was there a civilization at all?'.

I am quite certain it must have existed before then, if only somewhere on Principalis, and they might have easily adapted it from them. I truly do not believe that they only got the technology of the plough just a thousand years ago.

Oh hey, the Avar get something of their own!

And, if I recall correctly, we will be seeing more of them in about ten chapters!

I suppose there's nothing wrong with the term 'Brother-Leader' as such, but it feels very unnatural for a religious order, which generally use parental terms like 'Abbot' or 'Mother Superior' for their leaders. (And now you know where I got 'Father Superior' from.)

(nods) It just feels so... random. Like most of her worldbuilding, really.

So it's also a benediction? Are we actually going to see it used to bless anything?

I hope so. At least that would make all this feel more coherent...