>>88075710Abbadon walks a fine line, but so far, he's doing it well. For example, all the bits about swordsmen. I really did enjoy those short snippets about Intra, revealing how it was in vogue at the time of the original Demiurges' rule over Throne for women to be better swordsmen because men love swords too much. It's just so fitting.
Abbadon doesn't commit the mistake of rewriting history for his setting. To compare and use an example from /tg/, there are horrible 'that guy' settings with stuff like treating gender fluidity and homosexuality as being the standard and casting our real world values as being the odd way of thinking. Sometimes in a fantasy world, sometimes in a futuristic setting. Abbadon, thankfully, hasn't done this. He could have gone and done something dumb like making the rest of the multiverse just treat women as being the leaders and warriors while making Earth the weirdoes for having a history of placing men ahead of women, but instead, he actually makes a natural progression for how the customs and traditions of the overarching setting developed. I do appreciate him greatly for that.
I do think it's dumb that he hinted that the fact that all the Seven think Zoss' successor is supposed to be Zaid because Jadis' interpreter read things wrong. That wouldn't really explain why Metatron and the Thorns believe Zaid is the true successor either, unless Metatron and Jadis are in cahoots and manipulating the rest of the Seven and the angels for some secret plot. I mean, that justification I just listed now? That's reasonable enough. But the fact that the misunderstanding was caused from a misreading of Jadis' prophecy? Abbadon should have just made Jadis deceive even her interpreter, then, if the reason Jadis allowed the misunderstanding to go on was an intentional action on her part.
Or perhaps she's unable to correct them? In which case, that doesn't explain Metatron's side unless he's working off on that misunderstanding and acting around it.