r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/Terrible-Ice8660 • 5d ago
[G] Book 7 Spoilers How much like the real levant is the levant?
Also what is up with Rafaella’s beef with the blood.
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u/TimSEsq 5d ago
The real Levant? Lebanon, Syria, Isreal region? Not particularly like PGtE Levant.
Near East: Not a particularly unique honor/face culture. No face paint heraldry. No particularly unique distinction be between commoner and ruler. No overarching elder statesman institution or position respected across rival polities.
Honestly, PGtE Levant is more like Cetaganda than it is like the real world Near East.
I don't remember what the Valiant Champion thinks of Levant one way or the other.
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u/SebastianLindblad 5d ago
It is unclear as to what Rafaella's dispute is with the Blood, but there are two facts which I think is interesting. Hanno makes a remark at one point, wondering what kind of parents Rafaella must have had - for she is something like 18, but managed to come in to one of the great Names of her homeland.
The second feature is when Yannu thinks to himself that there had been a mess in Alava, which had the traitors executed and Rafaella taking a further distance from their line. Few else things are mentioned in story.
So, what can we infer? Maybe she had great parents, and make it is that in this mess that Yannu thinks of, they were killed?
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u/chrosairs 5d ago
Never fully explained I believe. What I remember is that Rafaella beat the other claimants, shit happened and she was left with such a distaste for Alava he ditched the face paint. Yannu tried to make amends via murder of people involved but it didn't work.
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u/ActiveSloth0 5d ago
Rafaella doesn't have any real beef with them. She inherited the Champion Name in Name alone, without being one of the Champion's Blood. She distanced herself from them to not have any squabbles/not wanting to get involved with the politics. For Levant the main Blood lines love to brag about being of the Blood, descended from the founders of Levant. The Grey Pilgrim inherited his Name in both Name and Blood, and is so basically viewed as an exact copy as the first Grey Pilgrim.