At its core, the long story is about whether and how peace can truly be made among violent oppressors and the people they oppressed, whether and how humans can come to see one another as humans, rather than being mired in histories of hatred. Some Shaftalese (and fire logic adept Zanja Na'Tarwein of the border tribes) are guerilla fighters against the Sainnites. While exploring the various logics, Marks is looking at the situation of Shaftal, a country that has been occupied for over a decade by the Sainnites, who have remorselessly gutted the land.
Most people are some kind of mix of two or three of the logics, though water logic is more rare and exotic than the other three. Although Marks (I think intentionally) makes the four logics hard to describe, very roughly fire logic is a mix of intuition and insight earth logic is grounded and stubborn water logic is nonverbal, musical, sometimes mathematical and air logic is literal and bound to clear and unambiguous truth.
The whole tetralogy is a seriously important work of fantasy, a thoughtful commentary on human conflict, and much more. I couldn't even open it until I re-read the first three, which entailed re-buying FIRE LOGIC, because my copy has gone walkabout somewhere. A mother must remember the son she has been made to forget, and Air children will find what their place in the world may yet be.Those of us who have been waiting years for Laurie Marks to finish AIR LOGIC got a gift in early June. When Medric is taken hostage to force Karis's hand, a strange boy will guide Zanja to the place where she may yet save him. InAir Logic, Karis and those who love her must figure out, in the aftermath of war and an assassination attempt, how to bring together Sainnites and Shaftali in a country where old wounds and enmities fester and Air magic conceals the treason hidden in the heart of the G'deon's household. Laurie Marks' Elemental Logic series introduced readers inFire Logic to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of their basic natures-here defined as logics-which sometimes bequeath them with access to magical, elemental powers and sometimes embroil them in unsolvable internal conflicts.
The final novel in the acclaimed Elemental Logic series finds Karis G'deon and her sprawling family once more imperiled, this time by the legacy of violence that threatens to unravel the fragile peace they have woven across their land.
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