When we left book 3, there are many threads still outstanding

• The Undead Army in the Abyss
  The Decision to support the Vampire Lord in place of the Lich Lords by the Lords of Chaos
  The Immortal Giants held prisoner by the Lich Lords
  What will happen with Talarus after the battle with the Lich Lords
  The Orc party investigating the desert to find the site of the Doomologue (including Rupert)
  The conflict with the elves over the Doomologue in Astlan (with the Grove acting as arbiters) and the elvish gods pushing for battle
  The undead invasion of the city of the Wizards
  The alliance between the Rod and the Nation of Crazy Lawyers
  The arrival of Talarus' old girlfriend in the flying abysss traveling submarine at Nysgard - with "Sam" and what i suspect is a Mind Reaver/husband to Talarus's old girlfriend
  The truce between the Siblings and Tom is ending soon after the Undead were driven off - what will happen next
  The fate of Senter as his cupidity becomes proven to Tiernen
  The next plan of Lilith against Tomus
  What will happen with the cloud ship/Grove/Jen/Gastrope now
  Why did Tizzy get that prisoner from the Citadel?
  What is Lenamare doing next -- he has been doing a lot of prep in the background...
  The next doomologue to be opened now that Nisgard Doomologue is getting fully functional
  Other princes in the Abyss may start to engage the old/new power of Doom
  The reincarnated priests of Bast's pantheon are going to be reborn soon
  A lot of gods owe Orcus payments for Tartarus
  Big battle - how many new orcs will be made D'Orcs after the battle outside the citadel of light? Any new Tiernen Avatars as well that become relevant to the story. The old creation rate seemed to be 1 every couple of years. Lots of reasons for Tom to create them faster now that he has the trick of it.

There are also bits of foreshadowing

• What is the trick that allows some planets to be immune to undead-ness. That seems to be important
  The monkey god of live is missing for a while - rescue needed?
  The Krakan is still restless

With Luck, we will get updates and all sorts of story goodies on all these topics.

So Tizzy, would you be willing to be bribed thanked generously for providing a snippet of Book 4 Chapter 1? Say with some demon cookies or Scooby-snacks?

Indeed, and indeed.

The PLOT thickens....

Thank you!

We try so hard, and so often under appreciated!

Very interesting. Maybe very close. Fortunately, I can be generic enough to say that SOME are very good surmises.

But, which ones?

No comment.

I know too much.

What vamps onboard?

One more evil idea. Mind Reavers.

I noticed a few bits of odd behavior when the submarine abyss explorers encountered Melisande. Nothing super obvious, but people were a bit too agreeable. Add to its Talarus's own odd behavior with Melisande original infection. I wonder if the "demon" who married Melisande is actually a mind reaver. It might explain Talarius behavior and also why Melisande' went and married the demon as well.

Of course, as none of the demons on anybody's side seem aware of this fact (if it is a fact), the situation seems ripe for something very bad to go wrong once everybody meets in person.

They can't?

my few cents

I have been wondering how Tom and Rupert survive Etterdam? I mean there was lot of dead D´orcs a some tartarwardenner... and only Orcus and his son get out(well they dont get out since they dont remember anythink, only Tom have some flashbacks).

I was thinking what if there is more D´orcs who who ger reincarnated it make prety sence since they dont remember anythink and it would explained lot of thinks. Think which lead me to this idea is Tom flashback in chapter 127 there was this half undead D´orc Vordec and on the book3 we get this scene where Tizzi make sure Rede the dhampir(half unded) get to Mount Doom.
With reincarnation in mind it would explained why Tal Gor get staf wich was intendet for his past self.
and some ather stuff .

well its theory and only one not named octoped can explained thinks(i dont think he will)