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Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.
I like this way of telling the story, it reminds me of Fire & Blood, and I also like how we can see from the POV of multiple characters who have some role to play here, but, unlike Fire & Blood, I think so far I have yet to connect with any of the characters. Maybe Pira and Jia are the ones I understand the most, so I'm curious for more of them, but otherwise it's just 'oh, ok, this guy is doing that, good (or not good)'.