ocry wrote:In the latest videos posted on The Weberverse YouTube channel David mentions this while talking about what will be happening in the next book and the rest of the Safehold arc. If I heard him correctly he seems to confirm that the Schueler visitation was a product of Nahrman, et al as a way to force the Church of God Awakening to come to grips with the truth of The Writ.
Very informative and with a few tidbits (more or less what was implied at the end of TFT) that the next war will start when Protector Zhermo - whom DW said is yet unsure if to portray as Hitler or Mussolini, so, in other words, a dangerous fanatic or a self-important buffoon - will invade either Dohlar or Silkiah or both after Dohlar takes over Siddamark's slice of the canal building. South Harchong and Desnair get into the mix too.
At that point - something like a year or so after the Nahrmann produced "revelation" at the end of TFT - DW is fairly explicit about it being Narhmann - The Church is absorbing it and having internal conflicts, but all seems to be well, quiet, going towards a peaceful resolution, but this being a DW book, of course, things explode and the book ends in a messy place...
Charis starts the war with a military advantage for once but at a geographical disadvantage and then at some point, religious controversy goes back into the mix, while there was some clear mention about the importance of the much more stuff under the Temple than Merlin et co have believed until his visit there
Sadly it's likely the book will be early 2022 at best