Book of the New Sun

The Shadow of the Torturer: Chapters XI-XIV

Apr 17

The Feast, The Traitor, The Lictor of Thrax, and Terminus Est

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You may know this already, but the liquid inside the sword is mercury (hydragyrum is an archaic term for the element.

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Ah, excellent! If I did know it before, I forgot

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