[Duikers'Ghost]

So the baby walks out in front of the Army while everyone is forming up for inspections or whatever and he has a human bone in his hands, and everyone gets all bent out of shape because they take it as a bad omen that Tavore is a child that is gonna lead them all to their deaths. What I dont understand is how Strings et al null the omen with the finger bones. I think it has something to do with a shaved knuckle in the hole or whatever, but I'm just not smart enough to understand how it made everyone all warm and fuzzy again. Can someone help me understand this more clearly?

[Dadding]

From what I understood, they just rolled with the metaphorical punches. They took an omen and said "Hey, we could use that omen as our logo", and then made everyone wear bones and bone standards, so suddenly everyone felt like they owned the omen and made it their own. They controlled the omen rather than it controlling them.

It's kind of like adopting a nickname that originally has a negative connotation but turning it into "your thang".

[Silencer]

Have hidden post by NefaraisBredd because it's a spoiler for a much later book, and didn't add anything to the discussion at hand, imo.