{"id":5278,"date":"2020-09-25T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2020-09-13T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T19:58:38","slug":"mark-reads-the-stone-sky-syl-anagist-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2020\/09\/mark-reads-the-stone-sky-syl-anagist-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘The Stone Sky’ – Syl Anagist: Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Syl Anagist: Five,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hoa reveals his origins. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read The Stone Sky<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For discussion of slavery<\/b><\/p>\n

HOLY SHIT!!! THIS WAS TOO MUCH!!!! I keep getting chills thinking about this chapter and what it just revealed to us. THE WHOLE FUCKING MYTHOLOGY JUST CHANGED. I mean… just look at the notes for this chapter specifically, because I thought I knew what was going on, and then my whole fucking brain BROKE when I found out that I had been interpreting this wrong. NOT STONE EATERS. NOT OROGENES.<\/p>\n

TUNERS<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Oh my god. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing this won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be the sole \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Syl Anagist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d chapter, and through these, Hoa is going to explain what happened all those years ago when then Obelisk Gate was used and the Moon was flung away. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even there yet, and my mind is blown. Because there was something on the Stillness before<\/i> orogenes, and they were called tuners, AND THEY WERE CREATED. Created!!! Oh my god, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much in this chapter that made no sense the first time around because I just assumed all the talk of bodies, of how Kelenli looked and behaved, was because she was human and the others were stone eaters. But now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m remembering details from the prologue: Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Hoa say he was in a prison<\/i>? And putting that detail with the ones I learn here… that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where tuners were kept, right? And maybe he was casually referring to this place as a prison because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what it essentially was. The tuners were created specifically to work on the Plutonic Engine \/ Obelisk Gate, and it also seems obvious that they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t granted personhood along with that. Look at one of the main conflicts in this chapter: Gaewha and Hoa talk about one of their own, Tetlewha, being moved to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153briar patch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I am CERTAIN that is a horrible euphemism for DEATH. They kill the ones who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t useful, right? And that also reminds me of what would happen to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d orogenes in the Fulcrum! THIS SHIT IS CYCLICAL, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. Tuners are valued in their utility in the world of Syl Anagist.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which makes me want to know who the FUCK Kelenli is. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a tuner, and yet, she can speak in their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other\u00e2\u20ac\u009d form of communication. Yes, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a prototype for the tuners, but… why is she around? Why does the Conductor seem to prefer Kelenli over the others?<\/p>\n

Perhaps all humans think she is one of them, until someone tells them otherwise. What is that like, being treated as human when one is not? And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the fact that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve left her alone with us. We they treat like weapons that might misfire at any moments… but they trust her.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So my guess? Kelenli is the spark. She is what is going to begin to change the minds of the tuners, all of whom have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opinions and experiences\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153have been carefully constructed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing here is a manufactured<\/i> slave class, a group of living people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t considered people in any sense, even by<\/i> the tuners themselves! It is from them that orogenes evolved, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also deeply disturbing how many of the same negative motifs and ideas persisted over thousands of years. But the version of Hoa that we meet as a stone eater is not who he is here, as a tuner.<\/p>\n

How is that going to change? Is Kelenli the one who will help kickstart a radical shift in thinking? Because she does tell Gaewha and Hoa that she has a month to show them who they really<\/i> are. What potential does she see? And how will this mark the beginning?<\/p>\n

NOTES<\/b><\/p>\n