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UNSONG CHAPTER 52: THE KING OF LIGHT BEHELD HER MOURNING

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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..."

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Oh Sohu. You knew that following the message was a bad idea but you did it anyways.

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

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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?