I would more than likely be an apprentice to a wizard, or sorcerer.
But I’d probably be that character you read about at the beginning of the book that tried mixing to many things together in the cauldron and ended up blowing up half the school.
On the plus side though it would be the first time an apprentice created a new spell ;)
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"What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?" — H.G. Wells
"What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?" — H.G. Wells
Kyle Holden
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"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become." — Ursula K. LeGuin
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become." — Ursula K. LeGuin
1. the name of the wind
2. the eye of the world
3. gardens of the moon
4. the stand
5. lord of light
6. magician
7. mistborn
8. the winter king
9. reaper man
10. the lord of the rings
11. someplace to be flying
12. avempartha
13. a game of thrones
14. tigana
15. wizards first rule
16. blood bound
17. the darkness that comes before
18. A Storm of Swords
19. Gate of Ivrel
20. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
21. Legend (Gemmell)
22. Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
23. The Wastelands, Stephen King
24. The Curse of Chalion
25. The Stone Key, Isobelle Carmody
26. Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey
27. Howl's moving Castle
28. Confessor
29. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
30. The Forest House, Marion Zimmer Bradley.
31. In the Company of Ogres by Martinez, A. Lee ;p ]]>
1. Lord of the Rings
2. The Dark Tower
3. Harry Potter
4. The Malazan Book of the Fallen
5. The Wheel of Time
6. Narnia
7. The Magic of Recluce
8. The Mage Wars
9. The Bartimaeus Trilogy
10. The Prince of Nothing
11. Darkover (by Marion Zimmer Bradley, not the ones written by others).
12. Fionavar Tapestry
13. The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
14. Kushiel's Legacy by Jacqueline Carey
15. A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R Martin
16. Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
17. The Belgariad, David Eddings
18. The Book of the Kencyrath by P.C. Hodgell (starts with God Stalk)
19. The Sevenwaters Triology by Juliet Marillier
20. Abarat series by Clive Barker
21. The Symphony of Ages by Elizabeth Haydon
22. The kingdoms of Thorn and Bone by Greg Keye
23. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
24. Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
25. Earthsea Cycle by Ursula LeGuin
26. The Old Kingdom (aka Abhorsen Trilogy) by Garth Nix
27. Age of the Five by Trudi Canavan
28. Black Company series by Glen Cook
29. Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
30. Tamir Trilogy by Lynn Flewelling
31. Discworld by Terry Pratchett
32. The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
33. The Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch
34. The Drenai Saga by David Gemmell
35. The Magister Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
36. The Black Jewels Trilogy - Ann Bishop
37. The long dark tea-time of the soul, by Douglas Adams
38. The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
39. The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb
40. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
41. The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
42. The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
43. The Renshai Trilogy by Mickey Zucker Reichert ]]>
The first book spends a lot of time developing the characters. The rest of the series moves much faster because the author assumes that you already know the back-story so he is more free to move on to a more fast paced and rich storyline.
And by the way all the characters that you may hate now, and you don’t know why they are even in the storyline in the first place get better as the story progresses. All in all I agree with what has been said before this is a story about people not events and battles.
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Well the first question that I would ask, if such a situation did arise, is how these things detect people. I agree that the best course of action would be to find a safe zone and hunker down until a group can formulate a plan of action, but what if their methods of detection aren’t hampered by mountainous terrain? Or for that matter what if their methods of travel aren’t inhibited by the forest?
The next question would be what their weaknesses are. Whatever it is that is trying to destroy humanity they must have a weakness; otherwise, they wouldn’t have broken down the communication lines in fear that we could rally an organized defense.
With these two questions answered alone not only could you find a reasonably safe area to hide from the attack, but also be able to formulate a reasonable method of attack when the time arises.
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