Chapter Summaries
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Chapter 1: Hadrian
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Plot Summary
Chapter 2: Like Distant Thunder
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Spur of Orion > Delos > Meidua Prefecture > Meidua > Devil's Rest
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Chapter 2: Like Distant ThunderChapter 3: Consortium
Chapter 4: The Devil and the Lady
Chapter 5: Tigers and Lambs
Chapter 6: Truth Without Beauty
Chapter 7: Meidua
Chapter 8: Gibson
Chapter 9: Bread and Circuses
Chapter 10: The Law of Birds and Fishes
Chapter 11: At What Cost
Chapter 12: The Ugliness of the World
Chapter 13: The Scourging at the Pillar
Chapter 14: Fear Is a Poison
Chapter 15: The Summer Palace
Chapter 16: Mother
Chapter 17: Valedictory
Chapter 18: Rage Is Blindness
Chapter 19: The Edge of the World
Chapter 20: Off the Map
Chapter 21: The Outer Dark
Chapter 22: Marlowe Alone
Chapter 23: Resurrection in Death
Chapter 24: Those Mindless Days
Chapter 25: Poverty and Punishment
Chapter 26: Cat
Chapter 27: Forsaken
Chapter 28: Wrong
Chapter 29: Less Wings to Fly
Chapter 30: The Umandh
Chapter 31: Mere Humanity
Chapter 32: Stand Clear
Chapter 33: To Make a Myrmidon
Chapter 34: Men of Grosser Blood
Chapter 35: Proper Men
Chapter 36: Teach Them How to War
Chapter 37: Might Never Die
Chapter 38: Blood Like Wax
Chapter 39: A Kingdom for a Horse
Chapter 40: A Monopoly on Suffering
Chapter 41: Friends
Chapter 42: Speak Like a Child
Chapter 43: The Count and His Lord
Chapter 44: Anaïs and Dorian
Chapter 45: Lose the Stars
Chapter 46: The Doctor
Chapter 47: The Cage
Chapter 48: Triumph
Chapter 49: Brothers in Arms
Chapter 50: Without Pretense
Chapter 51: Familiar
Chapter 52: Little Talks
Chapter 53: A Game of Snake and Mongoose
Chapter 54: Gaslight
Chapter 55: The Quiet
Chapter 56: Witches and Demons
Chapter 57: Second
Chapter 58: Barbarians
Chapter 59: On the Eve of Execution
Chapter 60: The Sword, Our Orator
Chapter 61: A Kind of Exile
Chapter 62: The Gilded Cage
Chapter 63: Calagah
Chapter 64: The Larger World
Chapter 65: I Dare Not Meet in Dreams
Chapter 66: The Satrap and the Swordmaster
Chapter 67: Lost Time
Chapter 68: Help
Chapter 69: Of Monsters
Chapter 70: Demon-Tongued
Chapter 71: Inquisition
Chapter 72: Pale Blood
Chapter 73: Ten Thousand Eyes
Chapter 74: The Labyrinth
Chapter 75: Mercy Is
Chapter 76: Deathbed Conversions
Chapter 77: A Rare Thing
Chapter 78: Quality
Dramatis Personae:-
House Marlowe of Delos
The Sword, Our Orator!
On the Planet Delos
House Mataro of Emesh
On the Planet Emesh
The Wider World
Lexicon: A Note on Translation