Mourners, Abednego, Persistence

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Sebastio the Effulgent has been Lord of Pennat Gate for more than a hexadecade following the events of that day called the Western Sunrise. In the pyres that lament the many deaths of that tribulation, the place he has worked to turn into an asylum for the downtrodden has prospered. Some of the Yrdkish peerage, and some of those far removed from such status, disagree with Pennat Gate’s position, politics, and rulership. A few are not satisfied merely with seditious talk. A few possess frighteningly capable means with which to undermine causes of questionable nobility. A few want to see the experiment flourish, so that it might be ripped out roots and all. A fiery furnace awaits, and it hungers for both metal to shape and tinder to reduce to dust. When strange intelligent Beasts begin to appear on the lidar, they become the Toledo steel that will either straighten the extrafacetary territories’ spine, or leave it forever hunchbacked.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2019
Author: Akninirith

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
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Chapters(18 total)

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angryfanRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
I have tried to get through the first chapter 3 times over the course of a month and this time I finally finished it so i could honestly make a review.
The author uses to many esoteric descriptions in the first chapter it is near unreadable. He does not use the common word to describing something instead he uses very uncommon words or a very uncommon use of a word to make the introduction chapter as hard to read as possible. An example word of this he used the word aped instead of the much more common words imitate and copied.
In other cases he uses common words but in a very strange way with little context like adoptive ancestor. What does that even mean? In many cases i suspect he makes up a word or misspells it I can not tell which in most of the cases. In the summary is a there is a case of this hexadecade. Did he make up the word or is it a real word an extensive google and dictionary searchs tell me it is not a word in any dictionary. So i had to infer that he meant 80 years by the breaking up the word into its parts hex which means 8 in things like hexagon and decade which is 10 years. The fact that i had search for then infer a word to understand something in a novel is so stupid since deca means 10 in greek and hexa means 8 so it means 8 and 10 years. So does he mean 800, 80 or 8-10 years. We may never know because he made up a word and never gave a description of what he meant. Yet he actually took the time to describe the sun rising over the MC skin in a colosseum vividly for an entire paragraph in the beginning of the chapter.
All of this made for one of the most confusing and hard to read first chapters of a novel i have ever read. When you write something you want as many people as possible to understand it. The authors style makes it so that very few people can actually read a chapter of his novel.
I saw that he had written another novel and that might give me much more context to this one. In the 3rd paragragh of that novel he used the sentence "His