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MWT posted this on her tumblr. I haven’t read the other three books, but I definitely think of Curse of Chalion and the Queen’s Thief books as connected. There’s a straight line from the Sermon of the Cups to “If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.” And surely Gen would sympathize with Caz’s description of being loved by the gods “as a teamster loves his mule that carries his baggage, whipping it over the high passes”.