learned something new today, I've always thought trans and NB were just two very close circles on a venn diagram. I suppose what I was thinking of was "trans binary" if that's a thing
here's my extrapolation:
amon and his older brother were poor as kids in the duchy, both talented at magic but amon more so, brother got recruited in exchange for a better life for amon and became the hard ass he is. Amon lives his life developing magic for the duchy then runs away after what...
wow, I've been having my doubts about the series as a whole but this chapter was pretty good. Like this is good drama, everything before this was pretty mid