I had honestly forgotten about the second world mentioned here. I suppose that would be the backstory to how Arkerra came to be in HR’s hands in the first place.

The bit I still don’t quite get: “Arkerra has met the perfect conditions for his plan” — really? I thought the existence of the Five and their attachment to Arkerra would be a major flaw in those conditions, and that HR would think the same.

The bit with the “realm of power” that would give him control of every world … that’s also hard to place. So far, I thought it was mostly about him wanting to be a god (well, *the* god emperor thingie, I suppose) in Arkerra, and that would have made for a sufficient motive, but suddenly it’s all the other universes too? But waitaminute — if he was able to shape Arkerra, what’s keeping him from doing that to any other universe? I’m happy with leaving things fairly vague, or explaining his motives/plans in greater detail, but this is some detail that I find hard to put into context. Nothing seems to relate to it, and it seems to explain nothing (that I remember…) so, really I feel like it either needs some extra explanation

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