Someone asked for a histogram showing the length of each chapter

The big spike in the middle is the "Goodbye, So Long, Farewell" from Yaerfaerda, which still stands as the longest individual chapter

Oh yeah, I also updated this old chart, showing how absurd Utaan's curve has been.

Revan asked me about "what weapons have we seen on the journey East", so here we go:

Sword
Dual scimitars wielded by Zaap Nator
Gazillions of swords used by Sam Rose
Also a common sidearm of Ledomaritan soldiers (Shell, Filta had scimitars)
Eagle Eye's primary weapon
Archod's magic anime sword armor, also Zytharros
The Sword of Solstice
Various Silvadelians

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We're having a baby in like a week so my fact checking responsibilities may been to take a lower priority for the summer. Besides, my automatic bat signal broke a few weeks ago as well, so there' s probably stuff I've been missing. Bear with me for a bit

I have a few guesses as to why we hit peak cuteness in Yaerfaerda but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Also yes this is actual data derived from word frequencies relating to "cute"

By request, here is some data regarding the relative levels of violence in the series. Compiling an accurate list of every event will be too complicated, and it depends on your rating of "PG", so let me just present the data in a graph:

From this it appears that the most violent portions of the series were:

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814 as of now

I predict Utaan will be around 480,000 words long. Also, this is the word count chart up to this point. Note the big spike in the Quade arc carrying forward to the current chapter

p.s. here is my data source

Might as well post these lists here.
Commenters who have been referenced in story, as nearly as I can recall
Commenters who have not been referenced in the story