Symbol
What this symbol is about is that the right side of the chain is the evil, bad side, and the right side is the good side. The crown represents the royal/noble people in the book whose choices broke the binding that was keeping them from safety and freedom. Some of those noble people are King Jaron, Bevin Conner, King Humfrey, and Commander Kippenger. They all either broke away from their duties to justify the wrong in the war, or died trying.
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Theme
What I believe the message is in this book is is to choose what will be best for your future, because off of that both your future and the people's around you can be affected. King Humfrey chooses to be allies with Vargan and then ends up changing his choice for peace. Jaron didn't have the will to live up until he realized he had to make all those deaths count, and fight for it.
" King Humfrey addressed his soldiers in the room. 'Send out word that Mendenwal has reunited with our longtime friends of the kingdom of Carthya. Any Avenian who continues to fight will now face Mendenwal's blades.'" This shows that they realized their choice of allies were wrong and made it right!
- King Humfrey, page 740 The Shadow Throne