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Blue Blue Blood Blue So what might be so special about this blue blood that I speculated upon back in Primordial Soup then? Selitos is our main blue blooded example but his power was held to be in his ‘magical’ ability to look into the hearts of men and read them like heavy lettered books, and he was not alone… ‘In those days there were many who could do such things but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age.’ Are we suggesting then that this blue blood of the namers (and/or shapers perhaps?) is in some way fundamentally different to the red blood of those without any such naming powers? Elodin tells us that a namers walked the streets like tiny goods and were obviosly far superior to their servants, the common folk and other serving men like Lanre and his soldiers but could anyone become a namer or is this skill inherent only to certain bloodlines?. More importantly, is this power that these blue bloods possess able to be passed on biologically to their blue b...
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Game pieces

1 ~ A-Gender . Welcome back, we have now pretty much mapped out the first Corner , but our storylines are starting to pull apart now, we have our Lockless family tree rooted in Newarre and our trunk rises from Vintas but now the choice of paths before us want to branch off in different directions at once, but we can only follow one path at a time and the wise student will follow The path of the Book before them. That is of the Lethani. We shall follow Kvothe's journey a little further then and investigate the Adem. They are probably the strangest of all the races of man that we encounter and they hold their secrets tightly. Stillness and silence are the heart of Ademre, something no barbarian could understand. Still, we can but try. Man Mothers When approaching a puzzle that goes against the grain, it is natural to adopt a guilty until proven innocent stance. But you must always remember that this is Fantasy Fiction, not Fantasy Fact. That's a whole different ball game. Therefo...
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