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My next reads are falling kingdoms and snow like...
My next reads are falling kingdoms and snow like ashes and confess when it gets here!! Super super excited to finally get to these gaaah I’ll probs be reading confess the second it gets here tho bc I have like 0 self control omg
March 13, 2015
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Can I just cry for a moment about Snow like Ashes I haven’t finished it yet but
If you have read it or are reading it please talk to me I’m so alone
I’ll put my crying under the cut so no one is spoiled
First of all, MATHER
God I love Mather I loved Mather I still love Mather I have a complicated…
Hi! What was your favorite book in your childhood? Hope you have a great day :)
I LOVED (and still love) Sharon Shinn’s Twelve Houses series. It was the first fantasy series that I read, and it made me fall in love with the genre. It’s brilliant!
Oh no, I just had a funny thought. If Spring is so full of insects that might have a overpopulation problem, could the King use them as a massive weapon somehow? I'm just sitting her laughing imagining him screaming, "I AM THE BUG LORD".
OH MY GOD and my mind instantly went here:
Because, obviously, Avatar.
But seriously: if Angra really wanted to create a massive bug army, he could — but it would require a lot of magic and continual concentration, as it isn’t something Royal Conduits are meant to be used for. Same if he wanted to use all the vines in Spring to wrap around his enemies and crush them — yes, magic can be used on plants (through growing/crop type things), but a sustained use of that type of extreme magic would be incredibly taxing and wasteful.
And actually…SPOILER WARNING BELOW CUT
…later in the trilogy, Meira learns more about using magic in these sorts of ways — harnessing objects/items around her in quick, short bursts of magic that can be used in fighting.
But, alas, neither she nor Angra creates a bug army.
Greetings from Lithuania! Maybe you have answered this before buuut what do they grow and eat in Winter? Thank you :)
Lithuania!! Awesome!
As far as Winterian crops go: in theory, they could grow anything they like, thanks to their conduit. Er, I should say they used to be able to grow anything they liked, when they had a fully functioning kingdom ruled by a queen who could wield the conduit. One of the main uses of Royal Conduits is making the ground yield crops, which is particularly helpful in kingdoms like Winter and Summer, where harsh climates make it impossible to grow under normal circumstances. But with magic? Anything is possible!
That being said: Winterian diets include very simple, light food, and thus their agriculture reflects that. I actually took a lot of their food inspirations from Greek culture — olives and lemons and clean, fresh, light dishes. Which I realize makes zero sense on the surface — Greek food is about as far from snowy/icy things as one can get. But when creating the culture in the Winter Kingdom, I loved the juxtaposition of a Greek-inspired culture set in a place where you wouldn’t expect it. It gives the overall ivory, clean feel of what people think of when they think “ancient Greece” new meaning — namely, representing the ivory, clean attributes that are also found when people think “winter.”
And can I just say this influx of world building questions makes my heart SO HAPPY LIKE WHOA.
