DistantSong
Нейронк всё же иногда очень хорошие определения откалывают:"Seanchan is not just another kingdom. It is the only true empire in the modern sense that the Third Age produces: centralized, ideologically coherent, technologically (magically) superior, socially stable for a thousand years, and possessed of both hard power projection and a universalist mission civilisatrice.In geopolitical terms, the Return is less like the Mongol invasions and more like a trans-oceanic Qing Dynasty or Meiji Japan armed with air forces and artillery that also runs on enslaved female channelers. When the full Corenne arrives with “thousands of ships and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and damane,” the Westlands face an existential threat on a scale not seen since the Trolloc Wars.The tragedy — and the dramatic tension — is that Seanchan is not evil in its own eyes. It is orderly, honorable according to its code, meritocratic in its twisted way, and genuinely believes it is saving the world from chaos and the Shadow by leashing every last marath’damane".