The World’s Wrongs

The World’s Wrongs
Book	The Trouble With Peace
POV	Orso dan Luthar
Location	Adua The Union
Chronology
Preceded by	Long Live the King
Followed by	A Long Way from Adua

“	It seems sometimes, that every decision I make in this chamber is between two equally bad outcomes, with the best option to make no decision at all!	”
	— Orso dan Luthar

The World's Wrongs¹ is the first chapter of The Trouble With Peace, the second book in The Age of Madness Trilogy.

Chapter Summary

High King Orso² convenes a meeting of his Closed Council. His latest idea of making a grand tour of The Union is met with general grumbling about the unsettled state of the realm. At home, the Breakers and Burners have become even more extreme in their opinions, stirring-up popular discontent with a flood of pamphlets. And overseas, The Union is surrounded by enemies, particularly with Styria agitating a secession movement in Westport. The conversation moves on to Fedor dan Wetterlant, a member of the Open Council accused of rape and murder. The matter is rather delicate: the nobles would view finding Wetterlant guilty as an attack on one of their own; while the commoners would see finding Wetterlant innocent as unjust, emboldening the Breakers. The Closed Council favor tying-up the trial in legal procedure until he dies in prison. Orso is horrified at such inaction, but has no solution of his own, for now.

Characters

Introduced	Appeared	Mentioned
High Justice Bruckel	Orso dan Luthar	Lady Wetterlant	Vick dan Teufel
Lord Admiral Krepskin	Bayaz	Judge	The Dogman
High Consul Matstringer	Arch Lector Glokta	Malmer	Lord Brock the Elder
	Lord Marshal Brint	Stour Nightfall	King Jezal
	Lord Marshal Rucksted	Leo dan Brock	Savine dan Glokta
	Lord Chancellor Gorodets	Queen Terez	Fedor dan Wetterlant
	Lord Chamberlain Hoff

Locations and Terms

Adua	Closed Council	Open Council	Breakers	Burners	Styria	Starikland
The Union	Valint and Balk	Old Empire	Angland	Weaver	Valbeck	Westport
The North	Gurkish Empire

References

1. The second book seems to begin a few months after the end of A Little Hatred. In his first chapter, Leo dan Brock says his duel with Stour was six months ago.
2. Here, Orso rubs at the sore spots he has developed round his temples. His father made a rather similar gesture in Last Argument of Kings.

Chapters
The Trouble With Peace Part 4	▪ 1. The World’s Wrongs ▪ 2. A Long Way from Adua ▪ 3. A Sea of Trouble ▪ 4. A Routine ▪ 5. The Art of Compromise ▪ 6. Some Things Never Heal ▪ 7. With the Wind ▪ 8. Visions ▪ 9. Man of the People ▪ 10. Safe Hands ▪ 11. An Ambush ▪ 12. Gentle Temperaments ▪ 13. Minister of Whispers ▪ 14. Late ▪ 15. An Infinite Supply ▪ 16. The Demon That Breaks All Chains ▪ 17. The King’s Justice ▪ 18. The Choice ▪ 19. Let Ring the Bells ▪ 20. Future Treasons, Past Affairs ▪ 21. The King’s Pimp ▪ 22. The Darling of the Slums ▪ 23. Dead Wood, New Shoots
The Trouble With Peace Part 5	▪ 24. The Favourite Son ▪ 25. Patriotic Contributions ▪ 26. A Little Public Hanging ▪ 27. Old Ways, Proper Ways ▪ 28. Fire with Fire ▪ 29. Half-Treason ▪ 30. A Private Language ▪ 31. Old Friends ▪ 32. New Friends ▪ 33. The Little People ▪ 34. A Fitting Welcome ▪ 35. Diplomacy ▪ 36. The Wolf’s Jaws ▪ 37. Questions ▪ 38. Tomorrow Came ▪ 39. Grown Up ▪ 40. Grown Up ▪ 41. All Tastes, No Judgements ▪ 42. No Philosopher ▪ 43. Changes at the Top ▪ 44. Into the Light ▪ 45. Some Men Can’t Help Themselves ▪ 46. A Meeting with Destiny
The Trouble With Peace Part 6	▪ 47. Storms ▪ 48. Liar, Liar ▪ 49. You Asked for Killers ▪ 50. Good Ground ▪ 51. Bad Ground ▪ 52. High Ground ▪ 53. Common Ground ▪ 54. Doubts and Desires ▪ 55. Fools’ Errands ▪ 56. The Little People ▪ 57. Cold Blood ▪ 58. Heroics ▪ 59. Just Talk ▪ 60. The New Harvest ▪ 61. The Truth ▪ 62. Those Names ▪ 63. A Footnote to History ▪ 64. Loyalties and Sympathies