Reviewer: titanic Signed
Date: June 03 2023
Title: Chapter 17: Epilogue and Afterward
Nice to see Dirk and Cora find a happy medium between the Amazon's way of life and what Dirk is used to. A good compromise.
Griselda was an asshole, but her assessment of the Amazon's vulnerability isn't wrong. The Amazons have a 'big fish in a small pond' thing going on. They seem sorta ignorant about the rest of the world and a bit overconfident in general. Compared to the technology, magic, and sheer size/physical strength some other species have in your fantasy setting, their Queendom just isn't that strong.
Neat little bit of worldbuilding with the section from the Lizardfolk's perspective showing they're some sort of rebellious faction. Doesn't seem all the important or anything, but it's nice to have those sorts of details thrown in.
Glad there was no mercy or redemption for Isabella or Hardstone. Their deaths felt right for the story.
Rain's End Amazons got the same happy ending the lamias got, I think? You get a man, you get a man, everyone gets a man!
Great story, your writing only continues to get better.
Author's Response: Indeed Griselda is 100% right on the Queendom's weaknesses, they need to modernize. In a sense Dirk is their Admiral Perry, though the Japanese have some mixed feelings about him irl. Griselda's real failure was going with a land snatching route instead of emulating what Markus and Amaya were doing, they'd have eagerly helped her if she'd asked...
Rain's End will appear in some of my other stories, though it'll be a much more metropolitan place than it is here, it's growing after all... Obviously in this timeline the amazons there are getting plenty of menfolk.
The lizards in the long run are in a bad spot, they're enemies to the Amazons and by extension humans in general. They probably won't face extinction but their future won't be nice until they can reach some kind of detente with the amazons.