Speculation time! Major spoilers ahead (and my whole-review spoiler tag doesn't seem to be working, so I'll just spoiler the text)
(view spoiler)[This Speculation time! Major spoilers ahead (and my whole-review spoiler tag doesn't seem to be working, so I'll just spoiler the text)
(view spoiler)[This is not really a review so much as my best guesses as to "what is the deal with the Mesarthim?" and "what is the deal with Lazlo?" recorded here for posterity.
Around 200 years ago, on the Mesarthim homeworld, there was a cataclysm that wiped out most of the Mesarthim. The few survivors decided that they needed a large-scale breeding/repopulation program to ensure the survival of the species. So Skathis and five others came to the planet where Weep is located, by means of Korako’s power, which is teleportation. Skathis and company subjugated Weep and then set about systematically raping the city’s inhabitants. The resulting children were kept in the nursery until their powers manifested, whereupon Korako would teleport them to the Mesarthim homeworld to be raised there.
But Skathis really liked being the only dude who could manipulate mesarthium. So he had a special instruction for Korako: If any child manifested Skathis� power, that child was to be killed.
Twenty years ago, Lazlo was born—the child of Skathis and some hapless teenage girl held captive in the citadel. (Is Lazlo ever going to meet his mom?) Lazlo’s power manifested very early, as one might expect, since the cribs and the walls and everything else was made of mesarthium. But Korako did not want to kill him. Apparently, she was cool with hundreds of years of systematic rape (necessary for the survival of the species!) but she drew the line at murdering infants. So she teleported across the desert, dumped Lazlo in a cart of war orphans, and left him there. Skathis never knew any better, and, of course, neither did Lazlo...until recently.
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Side note: I don’t quite like Lazlo being godspawn. I like the idea of a war orphan uncovering the secrets of Weep, and through his own pluck and persistence and ingenuity, accomplishing what his learned and mighty companions cannot. Kind of a rags-to-riches thing. But then it turns out that Lazlo is a GOD (well, half-god (?)) with THE COOLEST MOST POWERFUL GODPOWER. It kind of detracts from his success story, you know? I still like him, but I liked him better when he was nobody. (hide spoiler)]...more
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