Reflecting Upon RTH -- SPOILER THREAD

Keith_w wrote:

PeterZ wrote:It has been repeated over and over that the Imperial Ternaithian Crown has a far deeper bench of Talents at its disposal than any other government. Chava or some Uromathian POV laments this once. Text also stipulates that there are near unique Talents associated with the Imperial protective service. They are especially good at sniffing out spies, assassins and conspiracies or the Caliraith dynasty would not have survived for nearly 5 millennia.

All of this suggests that Chava has as much chance at hiding his activities as a snowflake trying to survive in a blast furnace. He'll try to kill the investigators but won't surprise them. Any such attack will expedite the unraveling his well designed plans.

So where were they when they were needed?

PeterZ wrote:They were not investigating. This not Ternaithia but a foreign city. Most of the passive layers of protection are not present. The assassination attempt will unleash the investigators. That attempt will also let the protective service completely take over Tajvana and bring in all those passive layers.

Chava had his shot and missed. His life is now in Andrin's hands. What she does with it will be interesting.

PeterZ wrote:They were not investigating. This not Ternaithia but a foreign city. Most of the passive layers of protection are not present. The assassination attempt will unleash the investigators. That attempt will also let the protective service completely take over Tajvana and bring in all those passive layers.

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:I am still thinking of all of those army units being sent by
all of those countries to the Larakesh Portal, intended for
the Front. Which countries will divert units to Tajvena,
to make sure that these International Politics come out right?

HTM

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:I am still thinking of all of those army units being sent by
all of those countries to the Larakesh Portal, intended for
the Front. Which countries will divert units to Tajvena,
to make sure that these International Politics come out right?

HTM

PeterZ wrote:They were not investigating. This not Ternaithia but a foreign city. Most of the passive layers of protection are not present. The assassination attempt will unleash the investigators. That attempt will also let the protective service completely take over Tajvana and bring in all those passive layers.

Louis R wrote:Equally interesting, all the army units that were _supposed_ to be sent to the portal that didn't turn up - to the surprise and concern of their own colleagues.

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:I am still thinking of all of those army units being sent by
all of those countries to the Larakesh Portal, intended for
the Front. Which countries will divert units to Tajvena,
to make sure that these International Politics come out right?

HTM

PeterZ wrote:They were not investigating. This not Ternaithia but a foreign city. Most of the passive layers of protection are not present. The assassination attempt will unleash the investigators. That attempt will also let the protective service completely take over Tajvana and bring in all those passive layers.

Chava had his shot and missed. His life is now in Andrin's hands. What she does with it will be interesting.

Keith_w wrote:

PeterZ wrote:They were not investigating. This not Ternaithia but a foreign city. Most of the passive layers of protection are not present. The assassination attempt will unleash the investigators. That attempt will also let the protective service completely take over Tajvana and bring in all those passive layers.

Chava had his shot and missed. His life is now in Andrin's hands. What she does with it will be interesting.

Sorry Peter, but I would have thought that with the entire family in Tajvana, with 2 of the Calirath's biggest enemies literally in arms reach, staying in the Palace that one of them bitterly resents the Calirath's continued ownership of, that they would have their ears to the ground, spies in every apartment, monitoring every meeting that everyone goes to, day or night, especially with all those special talents that had been developed in the service of the Hawkwing crown.
This was a terrible screw-up on the part of the protection service.

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:Every such unit should have Voices with it,
allowing it to be tracked in real time.

HTM

Louis R wrote:Equally interesting, all the army units that were _supposed_ to be sent to the portal that didn't turn up - to the surprise and concern of their own colleagues.