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Howling Dark

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Howling Dark	comment	WARNING: This page contains Late Arrival Spoilers for Empire of Silence.Howling Dark is the second book in Christopher Ruocchio's Science Fantasy Space Opera series 'The Sun Eater''.Over forty years after setting from from Emesh at the end of the previous book, Hadrian continues to pose as the head of the mercenary Red Company. Despite a multitude of adventures and new allies, Hadrian is still no closer to finding the legendary world of Vorgossos or establishing contact with the alien Cielcin.As he grows ever-desperate and tensions grow among the leadership of the expedition, Hadrian must venture into the territory of the Extrasolarians and the transhuman Exalted. In his pursuit of peace, he will come face to face with living myths and the most ancient of mankind's foes...
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Howling Dark / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Howling Dark / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Facing down Aranata with an empty plasma pistol, a combination of rage and terror prevents Valka from fleeing when given the chance.
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Howling Dark / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Howling Dark / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Howling Dark is the book with the most focus on the Extrasolarians and Exalted, and as such contains heavy Cyberpunk elements not present in the previous novel.
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Howling Dark / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Howling Dark / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: The resurrected Hadrian stabs Aranata through, killing it.
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Howling Dark / int_1f60add	type	Locked in the Dungeon
Howling Dark / int_1f60add	comment	Locked in the Dungeon: Hadrian and Valka are thrown in a cell deep beneath Kharn's palace after their encounter with Brethren.
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Howling Dark / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Howling Dark / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Hadrian finally realizes that negotiating with the Cielcin is impossible and murders Nobuta.
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Howling Dark / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Howling Dark / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: The poor mutilated slave woman of Nobuta.
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Howling Dark / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Howling Dark / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Naia, the homonculus concubine Kharn sends to Hadrian, "wears" only the hologram of a translucent gown projected onto her body.
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Howling Dark / int_39994bd9	type	Bazaar of the Bizarre
Howling Dark / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: The marketplace aboard the Enigma of Hours is home to merchants and goods from across human space, from Jaddian designer organisms to Durantine electronics.
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Howling Dark / int_4565d81d	type	Single-Stroke Battle
Howling Dark / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: Oalicomn didn't know what a highmatter sword was capable of; Hadrian shears through both his staff and neck with minimal difficulty.
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Howling Dark / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Howling Dark / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: Brethren's warnings are somewhat cryptic.
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Howling Dark / int_4873d055	type	Use Your Head
Howling Dark / int_4873d055	comment	Use Your Head: Bassander breaks a Blade Lock with a headbutt strong enough to shatter Hadrian's nose and send him sprawling.
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Howling Dark / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Howling Dark / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The first and so far only appearance of a full Mericanii machine-daemon demonstrates clearly why the rest of humanity is so terrified of them thousands of years after their defeat, as Hadrian comes face-to-eyeballs with a enormous blob of molded-together human corpses with hundreds of extended, sickly human limbs. The poor slave woman of the Cielcin has scarred multiple times, and her hands and feet have been slit open to resemble the longer fingers and toes of the Cielcin, rendering them useless.
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Howling Dark / int_540cdedc	type	Robotic Undead
Howling Dark / int_540cdedc	comment	Robotic Undead: This book introduces Hadrian and the reader to SOMs, cybernetically animated corpses, used by both The Painted Man and Kharn Sagara.
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Howling Dark / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Howling Dark / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Hadrian's duel with Bassander marks the first fight between highmatter swords in the series.
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Howling Dark / int_5e0dad94	type	Unbreakable Bones
Howling Dark / int_5e0dad94	comment	Unbreakable Bones: Hadrian's new arm contains bones of adamant, courtesy of Kharn Sagara.
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Howling Dark / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Howling Dark / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: The first sign that things at The Painted Man's tea shop are about to go terribly, terribly wrong is that none of the "civilians" dining outside react when a man is shot in the head a few yards away from them and a squad of heavily armed soldiers storm onto the porch. This is the reader's first encounter with SOMs.
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Howling Dark / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Howling Dark / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The book begins forty-eight years (twelve waking for Hadrian) after the events of Empire of Silence
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Howling Dark / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
Howling Dark / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light: Inverted; Hadrian sees a light in the howling darkness of death, but understands that to go into it is to return to life and his destiny rather than fade into the afterlife.
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Howling Dark / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Howling Dark / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Creepy and unpleasant as Brevon is, he rightly points out that the Extras have done more to eradicate certain diseases such as a variation of AIDs (a disease which Hadrian had never even heard of) than the Empire.
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Howling Dark / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Howling Dark / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The frequently-mentioned mythological figure Kharn Sagara is very much real, and still alive.
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Howling Dark / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
Howling Dark / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: Hadrian returns from the dead with better understanding of his destiny and later gets a new arm with bones of adamant.
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Howling Dark / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
Howling Dark / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: Hadrian and friends share a moment to mourn and reminisce for Ghen in a chapter named, fittingly, "Absent Friends".
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Howling Dark / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Howling Dark / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Early on, Hadrian bristles at Bassander's remark that Valka and Jinan make up his "harem", and later objects to Pallino's teasing him for being locked up with Valka.
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Howling Dark / int_7a7ec1e8	type	Violence is the Only Option
Howling Dark / int_7a7ec1e8	comment	Violence is the Only Option: Ultimately, Hadrian's entire quest to negotiate peace with the Cielcin is for naught; the aliens can only understand peace in terms of once party submitting to another.
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Howling Dark / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Howling Dark / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Hadrian is almost mesmerized by the sight of an antimatter warhead tearing the guts from Aranata's worldship.
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Howling Dark / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Howling Dark / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Aranata cuts off Hadrian's head after taking his arm. He gets better and returns the favor.
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Howling Dark / int_80874b5d	type	Mechanical Abomination
Howling Dark / int_80874b5d	comment	Mechanical Abomination: In this book, more is learnt about the Mericanii A.I. which were powerful enough to not just take over most of humanity but were the creators of weapons that defied the laws of physics. Suzuha mentioned that there were weapons that actually created cold and destroyed matter rather than simply changed their states or transferred energy. And they were on the cusp of reaching the godlike levels of the Watchers and the Quiet.
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Howling Dark / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Howling Dark / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Hadrian had viewed Kharn Sagara as a heroic, if mythological, figure. He is horrified to learn that Sagara is real, is still alive after fifteen thousand years, and he has remained so by using the proscribed technology of the machines. Additionally he's become a pirate king of the Extrasolarians and a renegade Merchant Prince who will accept slaves as payment.
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Howling Dark / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Howling Dark / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Hadrian is resurrected by the Quiet after being killed by Aranata. Kharn returns after being killed by Bassander once his consciousness is done downloading into Ren and Suzuha's bodies.
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Howling Dark / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Howling Dark / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Jari, the Exalted oracle, prefigures Hadrian in several ways; he has died, been reanimated, and in the process gained the ability to see the rivers of time. He also provides the first clues that the Quiet and the Watchers are separate entities. In Hadrian's vision from Brethren, he sees several potential futures and people he will meet. Some have appeared in later books, such as Prince Alexander and Pallino with his youth and eye restored. Other characters, such as Edouard and Cassandra, have yet to appear on-page. Following the vision, Brethren tells Hadrian that they will not meet again... but once.
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Howling Dark / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Howling Dark / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: While trying to process the fact that Kharn Sagara is a real person and still alive, Hadrian reflects that it's like learning that Genghis Khan was a real person.
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Howling Dark / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Howling Dark / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: As a pilot in the Tavrosi military, Valka was ordered to fire upon a hijacked ship with thousands of hostiles aboard; refusing would have resulted in the hijackers destroying an orbital mirror. While she thinks her decision to follow orders was purely in the wrong, Hadrian points out that falling debris from the mirror could have killed millions.
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Howling Dark / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Howling Dark / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Kharn's response when asked if the billions of deaths of the Imperial-Cielcin war mean so little to him.
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Howling Dark / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Howling Dark / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Bassander kills Kharn with a disruptor shot to the face.
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Howling Dark / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Howling Dark / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Upon entering the eerily empty loading area for Vorgossos' hightower, Hadrian of course remarks that he has a bad feeling about this. As Kharn admires Hadrian's highmatter sword, he offers to buy it; after all, the Undying keeps a collection of Jaddian weaponry and this would make a fine addition. Suzuha recounts that, according to Kharn, humanity almost fell to the Mericanii machines because they were led by men without chests.
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Howling Dark / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Howling Dark / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Hadrian responds to Switch's remark that nothing makes Pallino blink by pointing out that the old soldier literally can't. Switch has to restrain himself from punching Hadrian for that one.
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Howling Dark / int_cbabd0ca	type	Wrongfully Attributed
Howling Dark / int_cbabd0ca	comment	Wrongfully Attributed: Kharn Sagara is one of the few who can match Hadrian when it comes to classical references.
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Howling Dark / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Howling Dark / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Hadrian cuts Bassander's hand off in their duel. In turn, during his climactic fight with Aranata, Hadrian loses his own hand.
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Howling Dark / int_d0b95b85	type	Used Future
Howling Dark / int_d0b95b85	comment	Used Future: The more mundane Extrasolarian outposts like March Station have this aesthetic, in contrast with the more high-tech and bizarre Exalted.
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Howling Dark / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Howling Dark / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: Hadrian initially describes the experience of death as this, before he's called back by the vision of his future self.
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Howling Dark / int_d8068af5	type	Ring World Planet
Howling Dark / int_d8068af5	comment	Ring World Planet: The third act of the story takes the Red Company to March Station, of the "very large Space Station" variety.
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Howling Dark / int_d959f4db	type	Immortality Seeker
Howling Dark / int_d959f4db	comment	Immortality Seeker: The main reason why palatines such as Baron Song seek out Vorgossos; nearing the end of their greatly extended lifespan, the Undying offers a brand new start.
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Howling Dark / int_db94aee5	type	Artificial Zombie
Howling Dark / int_db94aee5	comment	Artificial Zombie: SOMs are corpses animated by cybernetics for combat. An army of these easily wipe out the Cielcin lingering on the Demiurge.
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Howling Dark / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Howling Dark / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Kharn expresses this sentiment when Hadrian objects to the way he sees regular human lives as valueless.
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Howling Dark / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
Howling Dark / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: The Undying's domains on Vorgososs are built under enormous, multiple-mile high domes beneath the surface ice. Ilex theorizes that the cities were built in domed-off craters that accumulated layers of ice over the centuries.
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Howling Dark / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
Howling Dark / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: The normally verbose Hadrian is so shocked by Bassander Lin's appearance on Vorgossoss that this is all he can muster.
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