I do think Sophos was referring to the country, in part because his awe for Attolia is very prominent, particularly that bit where he thinks she can do anything given ten men and a pen knife. Generally, there's the sense he regards Attolia as more than human, much in the same way Costis looked at Gen in KoA, when he's transformed into a god on cloth of gold, which kind of fits in with the way he met her. Granted it was Eugenides' narration at the time, but Attolia was a very deliberately imposing figure. She's omnipotent. And that seems to twist back into the issue of equality between Attolia and Attolis.
And re: Gen's ruling -- he still hasn't done much about domestic rule of his own instigation, I think. The fall of the barony of Erondites was carried out, Costis implies in QoA, at Attolia's behest. In ACoK, we see him focus on the external things while Attolia tutors Sounis in domestic statesmanship. He's focusing on foreign policy, which will have a good effect on Attolia, but he doesn't touch Attolia itself. So the question of rule is really more of an 'is he ruling Attolia at all'?
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:14 am (UTC)And re: Gen's ruling -- he still hasn't done much about domestic rule of his own instigation, I think. The fall of the barony of Erondites was carried out, Costis implies in QoA, at Attolia's behest. In ACoK, we see him focus on the external things while Attolia tutors Sounis in domestic statesmanship. He's focusing on foreign policy, which will have a good effect on Attolia, but he doesn't touch Attolia itself. So the question of rule is really more of an 'is he ruling Attolia at all'?