Show notes
https://youtu.be/Zbea1WsWTc0
D. T. Kane reads chapter 4 of his epic fantasy fiction novel, The Acktus Trials, and discusses the chapter with his audience.
http://dtkane.comThe Acktus Trials, available now: https://dtkane.com/books/the-acktus-trials/Map of Oration: https://dtkane.com/resources/map-of-oration/
Braveheart Torturer: https://tenor.com/view/brave-heart-prisoner-torture-a-word-talk-gif-16415942
Characters in this Chapter:
Baztian (Baz): Our main characterLeanna: Baz’s Conservator friend; Torchsire’s LibrarianHellar Xavier: Heir to Xavier Library, one of the competitors in the Acktus TrialsMarla Kolnar: Niece of the Duchess of Kolnar Library, one of the competitors in the Acktus TrialsDeliritous: Baz’s masterRox: Deliritous’s Harbour (bodyguard)Vintas: Torturer (Vicar) from the Conservatory
The Three Scribes:Leamina FortuneHelfax ErstwhilePront vi Lextor
Below are my notes/script for the episode, not a verbatim transcription.
PERSONAL UPDATE
Welcome back to D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club. Today is DATE as I record this, episode 4. For my person update, it’s an exciting one for me, as this is the first podcast I’ve recorded since The Acktus Trials officially released. Releases are a bit exhausting, getting everything just right and uploaded to all the right places, and I had it doubly hard this time around because I released the podcast at the same time. But I have another book officially out in the world now. I’m eagerly awaiting my copy to come in the mail. One of my friends actually send me a photo in a text today that they’d already received their copy. Jealous! No one should get to see the book before the author does. But I guess that’s the world of print-on-demand books that we live in.
A brief note about that, for those of you who don’t know. Authors don’t have to order boxes and boxes of physical books any more. Print on demand has cured that. Amazon and other places now print books one at a time. So if you were to go ahead and purchase one of my books in paperback, it doesn’t exist at the time you click Order. It’s printed once your order is placed, specially for you.
ANAYLIS CH. 4
OK, so Ch. 4 picks up right where 3 ended, with Baz and Leanna talking about this Citiless that’s been captured, and other things.
Citiless
We’ll go a bit out of order here. Let’s talk about this Citiless first even though Baz and Leanna diverge slightly at the start of the chapter.
Right off the bat, we learn that the “Table,” which is the government of Erstwhile, made up of one Duke or Duchess from each of the nine Libraries, has a standing order to kill any of these Citiless on sight. Apparently the Citiless, as Baz puts it, have “crazy stories about living Scribes and a return to the old ways.” Leanna clarifies that this means they advocate for a return to days where men could Read, Speak, and write new Spoken Books. This obviously disturbs Leanna, and shows why the Table has such a harsh standing order against them–they pretty much stand for the opposite of the Readers, right? The Readers don’t want anyone to be able to both Speak and Read. We saw what happened to poor Yeltax.
