![]() Word of God is that Paolini was tempted to split the book up due to its sheer size, but opted not to because of personal experience with frustration stemming from only getting a chunk of the full storyline per volume. In fact, the book's scope is actually closer to a trilogy, as each of its three main story arcs could easily have been its own novel: acts "Exogenesis" and "Sublimare" cover Kira's discovery of the Soft Blade and humanity's first contact with the Wranaui and the Maw "Apocalypsis" and "Fidelitas" concern the deep-space expedition to Bughunt and its immediate aftermath and "Malignatem" and "Quietus" see the heroes take the fight directly to the Great and Mighty Ctein and, immediately thereafter, the Maw. ![]() Doorstopper: The first published edition is 880 pages long (although, a significant chunk of that is made up by multiple appendices).The only exception is act 6, "Quietus", which opens immediately after the end of act 5. ![]() As a consequence, each new act starts with Kira frantically bringing herself up to date on everything that transpired in the wider universe during the months that she was cut off from it. These breaks are covered in short intermezzos uniformly titled "Exeunt" (a Latin directive to leave the stage ), during which Kira trains with the Soft Blade (who prevents her from using cryo like the rest of the crew).
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