(urth) Ymar The Almost Just

[Adam Thornton]

On 07/19/2010 08:04 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> I put that in the subject because it's one of the things that made me 
> laugh when I first read the books.
>
> Wasn't Ymar a torturer? Has anyone analyzed the significance of both 
> the first and the last Autarchs (and two we know did take the test) 
> being torturers?

They know their actions (if successful) will bring death to millions, 
but unlike most other citizens of the Commonwealth, they are keenly 
aware that there are things much, much worse than death?

Adam