Had anyone read the new story that comes with Disciples of the Void yet? (Assuming there is one) and does it spoil anything from the novella that hasn't been released yet?

Thanks!

I have read somewhere that it's actually the beginning of the novella.

It is the first chapter of the novella.

I liked the Council of Five snark-off.

Some interesting stuff, we get confirmation about what caused the Crane Tsunami (I thinks it had already been hinted before, or at least somebody had guessed right).

I'm somewhat confused to some prophecy that is mentioned in the Council: Atsuko's prophecy. I may have missed it, or forgotten completely. Has this been mentioned before?

55 minutes ago, Mon no Oni said:

Some interesting stuff, we get confirmation about what caused the Crane Tsunami (I thinks it had already been hinted before, or at least somebody had guessed right).

I'm somewhat confused to some prophecy that is mentioned in the Council: Atsuko's prophecy. I may have missed it, or forgotten completely. Has this been mentioned before?

Atsuko was the one who had a vision in the void at the start of Smokeless Fire , the one which got Kaede to appeal to the Emperor to ban Meishodo.

Ah, thanks! I remember that now. For some reason I had conflated it as that it was Kaede who got the vision!

I read it. I liked it a lot, but I think it's just the first chapter of the novella. I was gonna buy the novella anyway so I was hoping it would be a unique fiction. I'm guessing that's how all the clan packs are going to be structure narratively.

As to the chapter itself it was great IMO. Tsukune is a great character and the depiction of the council meeting was great. You get a good feeling for the fact that the elemental masters are apparently just as clueless as us as to what is going on with the kami. You get a lot more time with the members of the council so they now are more fully realized in the new cannon. Also we get a lot more Tetsu in the story, which I liked. I think he's an interesting character. The whole host of Phoenix characters we've met so far have been great. It's one of the corners of the new narrative that I've really enjoyed. It's mostly written by Spooky so that might have something to do with it as well. They've been criminally under serviced until now, but that probably is because Kaede was featured so prominently in the last cycle and because they were getting a novella first.