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No. Astana hunted all deviants, that included those that did not practice the state religion, LGBTQ+ people, those that spoke out against the ruling party, those that questioned the concentration and re-education camps, etc. Kanae is talking about the specific reason she was targeted.
its a bit of both Alex's place on the dominance/submissive scale will become more clear later.
Its a much better world but by no means perfect. Astana is an analog for slightly more fascist 1950's America.
I wasn't going to go into the gruesome details of collecting sinew to make string. But yeah that.
more or less yes. Although a fractured soul is actually relatively rare, even Mariel is not fully aware so it might never come up, but the reason reckoners are resistant to becoming berserker is that they all have fractured souls. In a sense each aspect of their soul stops them from falling. I think I might write some chapter zero stuff explaining the world in a lot more depth after I finish the fist "book" than will ever come up in the books, simply because there isn't always a good place for exposition.