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[rolanni]

[Poll #1158218]

Key:
AoC -- Agent of Change
CoH -- Conflict of Honors
CD -- Carpe Diem
PB -- Plan B
LC -- Local Custom
SP -- Scout's Progress
ID -- I Dare
BoT -- Balance of Trade
CS -- Crystal Soldier
CD -- Crystal Dragon


Please put explanations, observations and elaborations in Comments.

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Edited to add: Please pretend that CD is the last entry on the sixth line down.

Comments

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[marniferous.livejournal.com]

I find LC and SP just essential to really understanding so much of the nuance and complexity of the AoC sequence. I like to start there, and to start newbies off there as well when i'm pushi- i mean, loaning to friends.

Then CoH, and then once you start AoC, it's a roller coaster of plot that does not want interruption. And one that's so much richer with LC and SP already in awareness.

There's so much context - not just the couple and family relationships and personalities of the elder generation, but Liaden culture, clan history and administration... Daav and Er Thom's generation was the transition out of an era of...absorption...in Liaden society.

We see Nova ('She who remembers', and i just got the connection there) being the only one with any hint of her grandmother Petrella's concern for 'proper' contract marriages and the alliances thereof, etc., which seems to have been the previous norm. Our current heroes are all children of lifematings, a vastly different experience from their parents'.

And of course, as others have said already, knowing Daav and Aelliana's story before PB/ID makes their return so much more satisfying; just as knowing Er Thom and Anne's story (and young Shan's as well) adds so many layers to adult Shan and his sibs from CoH on.
Even the little bit we see of young Pat Rin in LC lays a base for the adult of PB/ID.

Then BoT, and the Cantra/Jela sequence. For some reason, that being _so_ far in the past, the 'legendary' ancestors and pre-history, it works for me as after-the-fact discovery. Whereas LC/SP, in my mind, really starts the whole 'present day' sequence.