Now what.  And what sort of tropes is it going to initially look like and then turn out not to be... where the heck is Keltham now, inside Reality, anyways...

"It's been touched on.  I wouldn't say I really understand, but I get the general concept of them being powerful to the point where a not-very-Lawful government gives up on restraining them."

Now what.  And what sort of tropes is it going to initially look like and then turn out not to be... where the heck is Keltham now, inside Reality, anyways...

"It's been touched on.  I wouldn't say I really understand, but I get the general concept of them being powerful to the point where a not-very-Lawful government gives up on restraining them."

It's possible Keltham just knows too many tropes and is somewhere else weird that he should really be trying to decode from scratch.

Now what.  And what sort of tropes is it going to initially look like and then turn out not to be... where the heck is he now, inside Reality, anyways...

"It's been touched on," Keltham says.  "I wouldn't say I really understand, but I get the general concept of them being powerful to the point where a not-very-Lawful government gives up on restraining them."

It's possible that he just knows too many tropes and is somewhere else weird that he should really be trying to decode from scratch.

Now what.  And what sort of tropes is it going to initially look like and then turn out not to be... where the heck is he now, inside Reality, anyways...

"It's been touched on," Keltham says.  "I wouldn't say I really understand, but I get the general concept of them being powerful to the point where a not-very-Lawful government gives up on restraining them."

It's possible that he just knows too many tropes, can fit them to anything, and is somewhere else weird that he should really be trying to decode from scratch.

Now what.  And what sort of tropes is it going to initially look like and then turn out not to be... where the heck is he now, inside Reality, anyways...

"It's been touched on," Keltham says.  "I wouldn't say I really understand, but I get the general concept of high-circle wizards being powerful to the point where a not-very-Lawful government gives up on restraining them."

It's possible that he just knows too many tropes, can fit them to anything, and is somewhere else weird that he should really be trying to decode from scratch.

Now what.  And what sort of tropes is it going to initially look like and then turn out not to be... where the heck is he now, inside Reality, anyways...

"It's been touched on," Keltham says.  "I wouldn't say I really understand, but I get the general concept of high-circle wizards being powerful to the point where a not-very-Lawful government gives up on restraining them."

It's possible that he just knows too many tropes, can fit them to anything, and is somewhere else weird that he should be trying to decode from scratch.