Actually amazing cast, the change in all 4 of them from the beginning molds of "story characters" to "real people" was great. The consistant escalation of the plot and later musical notes like Great Gate of Kiev when Ahiru realizes the last of the shards are in the gates upholding reality as a story written, actual gnostic mess where the story of the prince and the raven was written into a loop where the shards of his soul needed hidden in the material written creation in the author's final moments.