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 this way again.

Antony was one of Caesar's generals. 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-ranking officer. He also noticed that Arin's accent sounded Gallic, so it wasn't difficult for him to add 2+2. (After defeating Vercingetorix, Caesar promoted his from Tribune to Legate, so he was Aquila's equal, although since it's not said in the book, let's just say that he was one of Caesar's closest officers.)

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 (I couldn't force myself to do it, because I would have to endure three chapters without him), but some players did, like the first persons who edited Chapter 21. Yes, it was done to keep him away from Senate.

One of those players who chose 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 for Chapters 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. According to Dmitrij, you don't kill or maim Antony, just leave him unconscious, and he's later unavailable even as a friend (when he goads mob, you automatically join Cassius). The same result has tying him - I did it personally (because I could later restart chapter and have my happy end without restarting the whole book)...

3. You're right about differences between US English and British English. I was taught British variant, that's why I used it automatically, without thinking. 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 US/British 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... in singular, plus another 30 in plural). In med school I was learning Latin, that's why I said that Latin in ACoR is misspelled.

Again, thank you very much for everything!