The Bronze and the Hollow: Was Xeon Clerics a Hero? | The Whistling Swordsman

Every historical monument looks solid from the street. Read the plaque, admire the bronze, and the story is clean and heroic. Chip away at that surface, though, and most monuments turn out to be hollow — and what's inside is a lot messier than the plaque lets on.

Last time, we tracked Zeryl's one-time space-time fold and argued over whether it was the weakest power in the book or the single catalyst behind every tragedy that follows. This episode picks up exactly where that catalyst lands: the Congo War battlefield, where the original Whistling Swordsman meets a grandson he'll never watch grow up.

One of us argues Xeon Clerics is exactly the hero the title promises — a man whose green wind doesn't just fight, it heals, who held the line against Eon Pax ...