Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Jalikea respectful address for a male member of the jaseli kafo, roughly equivalent to the English ‘Sir. There is also an extensive supporting cast (there is a useful dramatis personae list included in the book). However, the act of replicating cultural markers on the page is more of a ‘hey, look at what I know!

The Sword of Kaigen is an enthralling and rich tale about family, survival, reconciliation, past, and the future. Sword of Kaigen stands shoulder to shoulder with giants in terms of its character, universe and plot – Hobb, Rothfuss, Lawrence, Lynch; they’d better look out. There is a redemption arc, but it’s not something that is shoehorned into a few pages, with all lessons learned and tied up with a bow. Namimaru the name of the Kotetsu-forged wakizashi wielded by the ambidextrous Matsuda Takashi (usually in his left hand), companion to the longer katana, Nagimaru. In its heart, The Sword of Kaigen tells a story about the titular peninsula, where clans of warrior have been guarding the peninsula from foreign invasion for generations.There are chaotic billows of guilt, repression, secret, self-hatred, and motherhood behind her façade of Kaigenese traditional model housewife. However, I cannot stress enough how much I was on the edge of my seat for the last two-thirds of the book. Remember that you are a truly talented author and that I will be glad to check out whatever you create, whether it’s a continuation of the Theonite series or something completely unrelated. I’m not sure how old I was when I first tried looking in the mirror and telling myself, with a shiver of pride and a warning prickle of something like fear, ‘I am the most powerful person in the world.

bokken a blunt practice sword with the approximate weight and dimensions of a katana, usually made of wood. kamayaa term referring to traditional Yammanka social hierarchy, including but not limited to the practice of powerful koronu providing for members of other kafonu in exchange for their services, and young people serving and apprenticing with more experienced members of their own kafo. Abtyaa country occupying the northwestern part of the continent of Kelendugu, populated mostly by tajakalu.Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U. Carythaa country occupying the northern part of the continent of North Baxaria, a former Yammanka colony populated by the descendants of various indigenous peoples, Yammanka colonizers, and Hadean slaves. Kri a mythical figure in the religion of Falleya, the first female human ancestor and the mother of all tajakalu.

When Kwang puts on the school uniform for the first time, he says (winkingly): “ I feel like I’m in one of those old samurai movies.Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.

And what good is being faster, or stronger, or smarter than everyone else when it leaves you all alone? Still, this doesn’t preclude my ability to, at the very least, pick up the winner for each year, and see what rose to the top of the pile. The Banta Empirea powerful coalition of mountain and grassland chiefdoms that once existed in what is now the southwestern part of Yamma, a rival of the Yammanka Empire until its assimilation into Yamma, a strong influence on Yamma’s current culture and system of government. Negedonthe fifth day of the eight-day Dunian week, named for the mythical human ancestor Nege from the Donkili, a day of work.High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors Takenagi the name of the ancestral Kotetsu-forged katana wielded by generations of Yukino swordsmen (the most recent being Yukino Dai), meaning ‘Bamboo Cutter’ in Shirojima Dialect. I’m putting a freeze on the Theonite series and all its spin-offs, including Flameless, Jamuttaana, and Rage and Whisper. Joyakalo the tenth month of the twelve-month Dunian calendar, named for the mythical human ancestor Joya from the Donkili (roughly coincides with Earth’s April).