User blog comment:Szmatan777/Antony (calling dibs)/@comment-37484301-20191002025533/@comment-36277500-20191002164500

Thank you very much for your patience to read my elaborate.

1. During Arin's debut, in Chapter 2, she walks Antony to the litter, then asks him about Aquila. He smiles slyly and asks: You must be this Catauni girl? Arin: What if I am? Then his face hardens and he warns her to not manipulate him again.

Antony was one of Caesar's generals - it wasn't said in book, but after defeating Vercingetorix, Caesar promoted his from Tribune to Legate, so he was Aquila's equal. He must have known about Catauni massacre, and later about Aquila's triumphal parade with Catauni chieftain and his family, even if he didn't personally take part in any of these events - both things were great events for the whole Rome, the more for Caesar's high rank officer. He also noticed that Arin's accent sounded Gallic, so it wasn't difficult for him to add 2+2.

And when his suspection about Arin's identity revealed to be true, he did the same deduction with Victus.

2. I didn't break up with Antony in Chapter 19 (it was too cruel for me, because he was too similar to my real loved one), but some players did, like the first persons who edited Chapter 21.

One of players who choose "It was always a play"/"Go rot with Caesar and his ilk" in Chapter 19, then was forced to fight Antony in Chapter 21, was Dmitrij666 - before editing the walkthrough sites 19 and 21, I collected an interview from him about this path. However, I still don't know what happens when you freeze instead of hitting him... Probably there happens something similar to The Elementalists Ch.1, when you freeze, but automatically block the shadow.

3. You're right about differences between US English and British English. I was taught British variant, that's why I used it. That's another reason why I'm replaying the book once more - I want to be 100% sure.

4. I'm bilingual by necessity, like most non-Anglo-Saxon people. English is a new Latin, and if we were living in a fantasy world, probably "Speak in Common" (instead of Elvish or Dwarvish) would be probably synonymous to "Speak in English".

I'm from Poland, and I heard that Slavian languages are ones of the most difficult in the world. We have 7 declinations (of nouns, adjectives and participles), 3 gender types of verbs and nouns, and most words have many different endings depending on gender and declination. Not to mention that we have some funny vowels and diphtongs. Czech and Russian languages have similar construction. That's why it's easier for everyone when Slavian people learn English, than Anglo-Saxon people learn Polish or Russian.

It's quite strange, but Roman Latin also has similar structure (5 genders and 6 declinations = 30 endings to learn... plus another 30 in plural). In med school I was learning Latin, that's why I said that Latin in ACoR is misspelled.