Since the review is getting in the 10-page multipart range without including the relevant excerpts, and I'm not done yet, (slowed down by the fact that I can't google up refs to things like Key Dates of the Holy Roman Empire, I have to type margin notes to go look them up later and revise as needed) - an insight that hit me as I was exerpting said excerpts early this am:
Talyn is a fantasy knock-off of Left Behind. All the plot incoherence, characterization problems incl. sockpuppetry and unexplained superpowers, keywords and Primary World Analogue Implausibility issues, all are explained by this. See
Slacktivist for details.