stuebinm commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
Content warning Nineteen Adze's epiphet
"whose gracious presence illuminates the room like the edgeshine of a knife"
turns out an adze is a cutting tool, so this isn't just a statement about her, it's also a pun, and i never realised before today
perhaps i should look up more of the less-obvious names? i bet there's more things like this