people should stop acting surprised about nuclear manetheren theory on that poll you’re personally hurting me by acting surprised about nuclear manetheren. what do you mean that the books hinting at a nuclear weapon analogue wasn’t your first idea when you read the series. the cats have six toes which is a phenotype that’s highly specific to the two rivers. the population in that region is isolated, sparse, and highly scattered with no resources being devoted to its commercial development by the reigning monarch. a high energy event carried out during a battle preceded the deaths of most of the local population. shadar logoth, the closest ally to manetheren, rotted from the inside from an inexplicable, invisible sickness which no one in the city survived, and it continues to kill most people who venture within its walls when they come in contact with the Evil Wind.
“I’ll never get used to seeing the fear Sevro wakes in people. Deep down they know Darrow is operating on a framework of logic. No one, not even me, believes that Sevro is completely sane.”
