On this reread, I was reminded how darn enjoyable Auda ibn Jad is. Evil, yes, but terribly amusingly so. Also, oh 1990, when you could just write fantasy Islam evil-jihads and not mean anything political by it. On the other hand, it made me sad, if minorly so, to try to sketch out the twenty-sided jewel of Sul and realized it was physically
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