## UNSONG CHAPTER 52: THE KING OF LIGHT BEHELD HER MOURNING

* Author: u/None *
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* Score: 52

* Created: 2016-12-26T02:29:19

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### Comments:

> **u/TastyBrainMeats** [+12]  (13 hours later)
> 
> Uriel can't read the Other King. 
> 
> Angels can't read Aramaic.
> 
> Hmmm.

>> **u/MugaSofer** [+2]  (3 days later)
>> 
>> Clearly the Other King is Jesus. 
>> 
>> He's Aramaic (and thus impossible to read - cleverly foreshadowed by the earlier scene where angels admit they didn't know what Jesus was saying!), undead, and was prophesied to one day become royalty (by the Magi.)

>>> **u/Ninmesara** [+1]  (3 days later)
>>> 
>>> Isn't Acher aramaic too?

> **u/ulyssessword** [+10]  (an hour later)
> 
> >"A SPIDER BEING BROKEN..."
> 
> [Source](http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_strain.htm)
> 
> Oh Sohu.  You *knew* that following the message was a bad idea but you did it anyways.

>> **u/None** [+3]  (12 hours later)
>> 
>> [deleted]

>>> **u/Gurkenglas** [+3]  (15 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Sohu, the Comet King and Uriel already talked about the Hymn of Breaking Strain in http://unsongbook.com/chapter-36-my-fathers-business/ .

> **u/ZeroNihilist** [+11]  (12 hours later)
> 
> I can see two leading candidates for the identities  of the Other King and John (the *Not a Metaphor*'s captain):
> 
> 1. The Other King is Rabbi Acher, John is the Comet King.
> 2. The Other King is the Comet King, John is Rabbi Acher.
> 
> I'm leaning towards number 2.
> 
> I think that the two kings may have voluntarily swapped places, as each had something the other wanted (the Other King was a threat to the Comet King's empire, now a powerful military resource, while the *All Your Heart* was capable of giving the captain a chance to confront Metatron).
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how the Cometspawn would die cursing the Comet King's name, and I figure him assuming the mantle of the Other King would qualify (assuming it isn't precommitment shenanigans or anything).

> **u/monkyyy0** [+2]  (2 hours later)
> 
> Was that a compromise with sin?

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