In Destroyer of Worlds, Ashok's protectiveness towards Thera makes insulting her this for him.Berserk Button: Insulting the Law for Ashok.Badass Boast: Not even the gods themselves will be allowed to sway Ashok from his purpose.Although so far he has only dropped hints at what his end game is all about. A God Am I: Apparently Omand's real reason for the casteless genocide and overthrow of the Capitol.Then he gets his tongue cut off in a Single-Stroke Battle, has a year to brood on the humiliation at the hands of a casteless-and then is offered the ability to gain his revenge, at a cost even greater than he believes. Ax-Crazy: Nandan Somsak starts off as merely a vicious Proud Warrior Race Guy.Rada it is her reading glasses, and later Asura's mirror. Arc Words: 'This was his/her most prized possession' Ashok a water bucket as a child, and later Angruvadal.The aware and honorable ones, like Mindarin and Ratul, break the rules of their own caste to the point of treason. The best of them, like Rada, have been taught to feel superior and sheltered, so they are unaware of how much damage their caste does to others. They range from mildly corrupt and money grubbing to openly genocidal sociopaths who see everyone else as so far beneath them, that their deaths would be justified to save the first caste from dirtying their shoes.

Aristocrats Are Evil : Harta, Bidaya, and so far most of the first caste we have run into.

Tower of Silence is scheduled for release in April of 2023. The third book, Destroyer of Worlds was released in September of 2020. It was followed by House of Assassins in February 2019. Son of the Black Sword, released in October 2015, is the first in a projected series of five. In the fantasy world of Lok, religion has been replaced by a brutally oppressive caste system, maintained by a widespread bureaucracy and upheld by the militant Protectors, most notably by Ashok Vadal, bearer of the ancestor blade Angruvadal. Son of the Black Sword is an Epic Fantasy by Larry Correia.

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