Four minutes after S had gone back to the barrel room, Edvar VI dries the mark on his tongue with a napkin. He feels very good about the wine, very powerful and calm. Edvar climbs to the dais and holds the microphone, providing a subtle sign to everyone in front of him to stop doing whatever they are doing and listen to him. FXC notes that accepting to power and letting it being imposed on any individual is treated as a sin in Straka’s stories.
“There is no greater sin, in the worlds of Straka’s stories, than acquiescence to the limits that power imposes upon the individual. It is less clear how Straka viewed acquiescence to the limits an individual imposes upon himself.”

Eric wonders what the clues were even though the details from FXC’s footnote makes sense.

DETAILS ARE CORRECT; ARGUMENT MAKES SENSE. WHERE ARE THE CLUES?

Jen thinks the sentence about the dialogue between Viktor and Sofia offering evidence on this matter could be a clue, but about a different message.

I think the second sentence is a clue-it’s just a clue about a different message.