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Blood and  Thunder ... Saundon's hot breath!  Does Ghen of the phosphorescent privates have priests?

Hmm.  You use the term 'death magic' ... . Is your new term how the others describe them, or how they describe themselves?  If it's how others describe them, is the term in use from the beginning, or is it revealed as time goes on?  Do the priests of Behira know the real term?  That last question also applies if it's how they describe themselves.

Discovering the name could be a major plot point.

Since I don't know where the story is going, I have to offer avenues. These mages use other people, body and soul, as objects of their casting and as tools.  They rejoice in destruction, but it seems that there is a guiding drive behind them--which I assume will be a big plot point.  They do not obey the common laws that apply to mages, whether malum in se or malum prohibitum.  They obey their own drives and imperatives, some of them more freely than others.

Anver has had a quiet semi-apotheosis.  Kha has become a lynchpin in a battle that could destroy the gods.

And Geron ... when it was finally time for Geron to act, the crypt was already closed to the way up from the Three Hells.  All Geron did was to close the earthy gate--and the crypt remains in the hands of the Three Hells.  (I'm also assuming that it's important that there are three.)  What happens when the next Master--maybe even Geron himself--dies?

And I thought that road train line was a good one, too.

Okay, you're going to come after me for sure after this review.

Amy, up until  now we've had nothing about counting spells, or reducing questions of their strength to simply minor and major.  This is a change, a kind of rigidity that hasn't appeared until now, in Dictates.  Dictates is well away from the school, and thus seems a poor place to change the mage-rules.

Yeah, but we've only seen part of it!

Janet, if a side bit about some abusive soldiers will get you to read a chapter ... well, when Jose Luis Borges picked up The Napoleon of Notting Hill he said that the opening, less than a complete sentence, convinced him that the author was a master.  Anyone who could throw away a line like that must surely be sitting on a wealth of story.  The opening?  "The human race, to which so many of my readers belong ..."

Pointy-Haired Boss (Dilbert)

If Airen is convinced only by Ganolin to trust Kha, then when she goes off up the mountain with Kha, her memories might still give her misgivings.  We should see her holding something back in Tell Me True (great invention, BTW) and telling Ganolin what tomdo if Kha comes back and she doesn't.  Sil and the cleansing of Kha should mean more to her than is heretofore obvious.

And Kha's acts with the Black Staff and his training of an army may be what make him so dangerous to Behira ... and his cleansing and choice would reverse all that.  Zyrtec knows more than Big B.

And some of us like to debate grammar, both in narrative and dialogue.

Fascinating ... it does not occur on the screen version, only when printed.  That's through IE.  The print preview from Chrome shows no such problem.  I'll run the print from Chrome, too.

Sol, I looked at this again, and I thin the problem may occur when there are unquoted double quotes in the review text.  I'll try to get some useful screencaps.  Is the snassi address still correct?