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September 14 - December 18, 2022
You know me from song. My truth is unsung. I lie where starlight cannot see. I was forged in fire, and from comet wrung. I am over leaf and under tree, my worshippers furred, their offerings dung. Quench fire, break stone, and set me free.
Bullshit. No way she remembers this whole riddle after being told once
giantswoods,
Kinda cool
Burlah.
haith
Heachtes?
wick
Phrasing
She slid the knife along the nut of Margret’s throat,
Phrasing
Edrig of Arondine.
Yikala.”
All the scattered fragments of the truth were aligning, explaining what the Priory had never understood.
So nice of the witch to explain
“Do you hear yourself, Margret?” Loth said, appalled. “They are wyrms.”
Out of character? And why is it only these 4 on the council? Where are the other leaders who deserve a say?
“If the Eastern rulers have a whit of intelligence between them, they will see the necessity of cooperation,” Ead maintained. “I have faith in the shepherds, even if Queen Jillian did not.”
So it comes down to world alliances...boring
The crow took off again.
Why even mention it? Let the spy be unknown
Caliburn-on-Sea.
Sabran breathed a white mist between them.
Uh...what?
“My mother always said it was best to receive bad news in winter, when everything is already dark. So one can heal for spring,”
I like that. Reminds me of "Life starts all over when it gets crisp in the fall"
grievoushead
??
Then she did not think at all.
No way she dies
Dranghien Lakseng,”
Perchling,
Bonehouse Trench?”
Empire of the Twelve Lakes.
The sky was salted with stars.
Weird metaphor. Lightly salted? Heavily? People use salt differently.
syrens
Why change the spelling? Dumb.
baleens
Type of whale that has plates instead of teeth
Captain Lanthorn.
2 mentions in the book, both this event. Why include? Hes not even in the glossary...is that a mistake?
She might be Flesh Queen of Yscalin, eyes full of ash.
This term is used 4 times... I think it means a female who is pawn to a dragon...queen only in name?
Gautfred Plume—the
Hafrid of Elding.”
Only mention
City of the Thousand Flowers.
Valeysa.”
“Duty calls, but I’ll ask one of our Lacustrine seafarers if they can teach you about their customs, and at least a few words of their tongue. Let’s not present you to His Imperial Majesty as a complete idiot.”
Prediction: they will work together to catch pirates who took tanes dragon then join firces against nameless one
Thim
Dranghien Lakseng,
that some rulers of the dynasty had been dragons in human form.
Like in earthsea...the old woman
sky lights of Hróth.
Scandinavia, then? The northern lights?
“You can find beauty anywhere.”
Uh...ok...Strange little boy
“Hafrid,”
Damsel
Like the red damsels?
As if a god had pulled her out of the storm.”
A god...the dragons are gods of this land. Obvious.
Loth climbed into a rowing boat with two of the Knights of the Body, who had both refused to carry pistols. Their swords were all they needed in a fight.
They gon die
Driftwood Prince.”
Like prince aegon in the nights watch
Elsand Lake,
Padar,
their
Whose??? Starting with pronouns again
he
Another pronoun start
He blinked the fur of exhaustion away.
Weird metaphor
painted with flowers,
Interesting that loth notices the flowers and tane just said it was a box
She stared him out.
Down*?
Loth squeezed his eyes shut, and his face took on the forbearance of a man who had consigned himself to death before he let go.
I guess thats his thing now. Even tane sees it
Ampiki.
