It's time to start Part 3 of Elantris! It's time to end part 3 of Elantris! This is the part where, uh, everything happens. Strap in, folks, this is a doozy.

Next week - Elantris wrap-up - Emperor's Soul intro

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As we approach the end of a book, we start to see predictions come true, and that's always exciting. This episode's notable prediction: "please have fewer characters in this book". Uh oh.

Next week - Chapter 55-Epilogue

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Complex characters are fun, right? It's interesting to discuss the intricacies of a character's beliefs and actions, and determine what we think of them in the end. I think we can all agree, though - don't serial-kill. That's bad.

Next week - Chapters 46-54

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So, uh. Is this the same book that we've been reading? There's some sort of murder-cult going on? Let's try to deal with this, if we can.

Next week - Chapters 36-45

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Look, it's quite simple: Spirit, who is really Raoden (whose name means spirit) is in New Elantris (in Elantris) drawing the Aon Aon. Nothing to it.

Next week - Chapters 28-35

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Y'know what, you don't get a descriptive newspost for today. I'm too distracted by an incredibly tense Cubs game. See you next week?

Next week - Chapters 23-27

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Finally, we don't have 24 new characters to deal with. That means it's time to get way off the rails and talk about poorly-timed promotional campaigns - I mean it's time to buckle down and make some predictions on where this book is headed.

Next week - Chapters 19-22

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This week: some surprisingly early payoffs for plot predictions we had, as well as a section that we all actually agree we Don't Like.

Next week - Chapters 16-18

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There are a lot of new characters in these chapters. To try to deal with this, we attempt to go on a small tangent. This goes about as well as you'd expect.

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Look, you don't need to name the sticks. This is definitely one of those colloquial phrases that everyone says, and not just a thing we spontaneously said during this episode.

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