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September 27 - October 7, 2022
“I assure you, the lives he’s been sending us are being put to good use.
Not creepy at all
creature pulled back its claw and ripped the guard’s throat.
👀
“He’d much prefer the blood red to the road brown, I’d wager.” Derren smiled, but his expression quickly faded at the sight of Ellana.
Accurate
The coldness in her voice was palpable. Father would be proud.
Oof
“I can’t live on promises, Nasha.
Good line
He’d been buried!
Whoops
Jabillo glared at her, his anger rising within Nasha, fighting against her attempts to swallow it back down.
Really loving that she's some sort of empath
Alren, Roki, Cara, Dentos.
Nice that the voices in her head are her dead friends
“I thought these weren’t supposed to fall.”
Dun dun duuuuun
Adrian’s state and the petals falling in every color of sunlight.
Oh interesting
and it almost reminded Adrian of when he had a haven in Myrra.
💔
The Book of the Breath
Ebioying these two cultures that are opposites of each other
the eyes of the Madness.
The Madness keep hd of reminds me of the Grey Wardens in Dragon Age and the affects of the Darkspawn blood
sharp nails into the deep grooves of the undying, iron-hard bark.
Hmm. Theory is that this happens before the trees start dropping petals, which causes all the problems in Adrian's Pov
“I’ll show you what nothing looks like.”
🔥
of a griffin’s ruin-stone heart—was, after all, what she needed to establish the Bond.
Interesting. Are they actual living creatures then or constructs?
Some even floated in the blood-red pool of sap, which should have been colorless.
Like the godswood in GOT
His white cloak rustled at his back, and the buttons on his vest and cuffs glinted in the beams of light that shone through the openings in the high-walled chapel, metal reflecting the silver and white of the polished ruin-stone.
Nice imagery
“Myrra. The Dakhran princess.” Adrian’s back stiffened again. He hadn’t said her name out loud since she’d died.
💔
After creating the Body, raising it with Bone, and warming it with the Blood, the Seraph gave us the Breath, so that we may spread her word of a world untainted by death.
Love these kind of lore things
Seraph hates death so much, why can’t she just make us forget?”
A good question
The Pontiff has lived for hundreds of years by Her power.
And i dont trust him at all
“Not one of our own.”
Hm i don't believe that
“Orwen has been summoned to Alteria
Why do i get the sense that he's dead?
“Abbot Orwen!”
Called it
mask. His identity was no secret. Andral.
Yum
using the boy as a stepping-stone and pushing his breathless face into the ground.
Heck yeah
She grabbed onto one of the lines, and the energy that filled Nasha was too much to hold inside.
Oh, I'm getting that this is like the Sentinels and their gryphons?
Earth-Breakers,
I really like Nasha's chapters but I feel like I'm missing something thats helping me understand her culture and the clans and their hierarchy
“Their Warden. They say he’s brutal. He’ll kill us all,” Zima said.
So each clan has a warden to guide initiates to join the clans in the proving?
old man like Jovu’s.
😢
His eyes were surrounded by a grayish tinge and were even more sunken than when they had been in Alteria.
Well that can't be good
him, nose bloody and face swollen.
Not Derren!
Burnham,
I know this is a serious ment but this name makes me think of burning ham
One pulled back Lindamm’s head, while the other held his mouth open.
🤢 Thanks for making it gross
he thought he could see the fire reflecting off the yellow-white sliver of Raklin’s smile.
👀
The sky was the color of a bloodless corpse,
Yummy
But Derren had been part of Adrian’s life
Aw, not one of my favorites
Derren cried beside him.
Glad he's alive. For now
the whitish gray of ruin-stone-infused fabric that could deflect any blade, her war scythe, mace, and armor protruding from under it: her Sentinel Mantle.
Oooh
You can fight it!”
😢
“Keep hold of it this time. It’ll help you remember. You are a Sentinel of the Breath, and you are stronger than this Madness.”
💔
Warden could somehow protect their honor and their ancestor-stone.
I think i would have liked this information about the Proving earlier in the story
Men and women in heavy armor followed, and winged shadows blocked out the red sun.
Oh? Griffins?
their great beasts sinking claws into the square’s invaders.
There be griffins here
The crumbling home faded. She was no longer a child.
Aw poor baby
markings as on the frenzied madmen he’d
Oh no
“Adrian . . .” “I know, Derren. I know.”
Potential villian arc?
Show a man death, and he will quail in his boots; give him his life, and he will forever remember who holds it.
Good line
