Monday, April 17, 2023

Speaking of Hell...

 So, I returned to Planescape with Book 2 of the Blood Wars Trilogy, Abyssal Warriors by J. Robert King.

While this one was much more entertaining than Volume 1, it suffers from a few issues. 

Anyway, Nina, last seen following a Tiefling into the Abyss, has gone looney and is raising an army to take over Layer 337 of the Abyss. Aereas, last seen being denied audience with The Lady of Pain, is still looking for her. The Dead God Leonin, who's sort of living his life as a cafe in Sigil, is instead being reanimated on the astral by insect demons. Before he loses all control, he does summon a Deva (Angelic being) name Phoeton to go help Nina and Aereas. 

Let me see if I can get this straight, since time in the Planes operates according to the needs of whomever is telling the story. Seems Uncle Artus adopted a girl in the Beast Lands, who was unbalanced with fire. That would be Nina. Using an artifact, Aereas tries to find Nina, but instead finds another girl like Nina, in similar straits. Whom he ends up mating with and having a daughter. 

In the mean time, Nina is raising 12 legions of demons/fiends/whateves and making her Tiefling love her. 

Eventually, the Lady summons Aereas to lead her armies into the Beastlands to defeat Nina's army. There's a lot going on here, and we get a few chapters of what amounts to Nina and Aereas flying through Sigil in giant acorns. We're also lead to believe Artus and Boffo traded bodies somewhere along the line. 

Any rate, we're left with everyone mostly unhappy or dead. 

By far the biggest problem in here is that one of the big twists at the end makes zero sense. Like literally, it would involve on character being in two different states of being at the exact same time. 

But, like I said, it's easier to get through than the first one, so...

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