#Clariel

[slaughter-books]

Day 26: JOMPBPC: Best World Building

I absolutely love the world of the Old Kingdom series by, master story-teller, Garth nix! 💕

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #best world building #clariel #terciel and elinor #sabriel #lirael #abhorsen #goldenhand #the old kingdom #garth nix #beautiful books #amazing author #i love books

[triacopa]

“finished” for grading - a bookcover redesign of clariel by garth nix. may fiddle with it more some other time!

#art #personal work #abhorsen #the old kingdom #sabriel #clariel #garth nix

[theffej]

NEED HELP FINDING ARTIST FOR UNCREDITED ART

If you follow this channel, you know I'm working on an audio book for Garth Nix's Sabriel (1995). I can't find the artist for this piece of artwork and I desperately want to credit them before using it in my upcoming video. If you know who it is, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know!

#artists deserve credit #sabriel #Garth Nix #abhorsen #old kingdom #lirael #clariel #goldenhand #terciel and elinor

[deadindeathvalley]

Audiobooks for Fanfiction?

Do you like fanfiction?

Are you a slave to a capitalistic system that prevents you from reading fanfiction all day every day?

Do you ever wish you could read fanfiction while doing chores?

Well good news! We are poor and struggling to pay rent, so my partner is taking commissions!

He is an aspiring voice actor who has been recording an audiobook of Sabriel (by Garth Nix) over the past couple years.

HERE is a link to Sabriel, and HERE is a link to a recent recording he did of a book I've been working on.

If you like his voice and have a fanfic in mind you'd like him to read for you, DM me, or him. (Patreon)

Note: If you are not the author, please get permission from the author before commissioning.

Pricing:

$35 per 1000 words.

$50 per 1000 words for NSFW. (This only applies to chapters or sections containing NSFW content. SFW chapters will be priced at $35/1k)

#sabriel book #sabriel #fanfic #destiel #merthur #merlin bbc #supernatural #stardew valley #sdv #voice acting #audiobook #mogget #touchstone #clariel #old kingdom #abhorsen #garth nix #necromancy #dnd

[shadowkupkake]

The Abhorsen family tree(as close as I can make it) SPOILERS BELOW, this is a long one

As disjointed as it is, The Abhorsens are highlighted in green, with their known place in the timeline. There are so many i couldn't connect, and only some are named. Blue are members of the Clayr Bloodline present in the tree, and orange are members of the Royal Bloodline. Un-highlighted means they are either related by marriage/partnership or did not obtain the Abhorsen title. This is a link to the wiki where i was able to piece together some of them.https://oldkingdomwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Abhorsen , There are some i don't mention that have a concrete placement.

The clearest concrete Abhorsen however (Other than their namesake) is Kalliel, who is number 12, while 13 is her unnamed grandson. Even Clariel/Chlorr is a part of the family(Her grandfather-Tyriel) at roughly 600 years before Sabriel/Lirael.

There are 16 more named, but out of order Abhorsens. I have done my best to put them in order(I just don't know their official position)

Soraniel (m)

Feriniel (f)

Madarael (f)

Kariniel (f)

Tyriel, Teriel(A-I-W, before death) and Yannael(A-I-W, before Belatiel)

Belatiel

Jaramiel

Jerizael

Alleil

Herraniel/Tizaniel (siblings, but unknown order)

Then of course, there are named ones who I dont even have a hint for:

Cassiel (Lirael wields their bells)

Yezael

Ulamiel

Bannatiel

Keramitiel

Anyway, I hope this is remotely correct and that you enjoyed

EDIT: Looking at this, it looks like Elinor and Terciel are distant cousins? Since the family tree is funky, but the wiki says Elinor is "Of the line of Tizanael", she's also descended from an Abhorsen

(G-G-Grandparent Jeremiel) herself.

EDIT 2: Added names i forgot that have rough placement

#the old kingdom #Sabriel #Lirael #Abhorsen #Clariel #Family trees #goldenhand #terciel and elinor

[canonaspecswag]

Canon Aspec Swag Qualifiers: Chloe Turner vs Clariel

Chloe Turner from The Bright Sessions who is panromantic asexual and uses that label in text.

vs

Clariel from the Old Kingdom book series by Garth Nix, who is ace, confirmed by Garth Nix on twitter

#canon aspec swag qualifiers #chloe turner #clariel #the old kingdom #the bright sessions #panromantic #asexual #ace #fandom polls #tumblr bracket

[goodgrammaritan]

A small white cat was sitting in the doorway, twitching his tail, his bright green eyes fixed on Clariel with an unnerving directness. There was a red collar around his neck that gleamed with Charter marks, and a tiny bell that Clariel knew instinctively she never wanted to hear ring.

"And who might you be?" asked the cat.

"I think you should be answering that question," said Clariel...

"Let's see," said the cat. "You're neither the Abhorson nor the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, not least because they never set foot inside this house if they can help it, but also because you're too young. You remind me a little of...Teriel...but you can't be his sister, also because you're too young. Did Teriel have a child before--"

"I meant who are you!" interrupted Clariel.

"What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget."

Clariel by Garth Nix

#garth nix #Clariel #Mogget #such sass #so mogget

[godblessyoublackemperor]

Just finished reading Clariel for the first time (as part of my Great Old Kingdom re-read of 2023) and honestly what an origin story

Just masterfully teetering along the line between making you want to scream at her to stop and urge her on bc no one else is doing anything

(Also didnt expect a searing depiction of addiction and the ways it ruins lives in a book about magic and necromancers)

Those flashes of her dream of running away to the forest fading in those last moments as the dragon dives towards the burning palace

And somehow still leaving her with some hope at the end?

I've always loved the atmosphere of these books but this one went so fucking hard, makes me kind of wish she was a bigger deal in the original trilogy

Really looking fwd to Goldenhand now

#garth nix #clariel #abhorsen #old kingdom

[soliddarrity]

Going through my drafts & didn’t want this Clariel review to go to waste in case anyone relates:

I want to complain about Clariel by Garth Nix for a minute.

First of all I loved the book, it wasn’t as good as the others but it was still an Old Kingdom book and I really appreciated that Garth is willing to write such fabulously powerful female characters AND that he gave Clariel the power of being a berserk & didn’t play it off like being a berserk is an inherently bad or evil thing, in fact when Clariel meets her grandfather he’s like ‘oh you’re one of these, I know just what to do with you!’

I love that Jaciel’s berserk energy is unleashed in it’s full power and we get to see that being a berserk has huge advantages and can be extremely positive, while also not shying from the inherent dangers it holds. Idk, I just love that we get to have a powerful, angry female character and it’s not played as an inherently bad thing, even though it’s ultimately Clariel’s downfall in a way (but not really - her temptation to use Free Magic isn’t quite a one-to-one transfer from berserk to her going dark side in the end).

Anyway! The complaints!

-quite honestly, I didn’t think Clariel was evil enough. If this was her origin story, it only...kind of told how she actually turned evil? In the end, Clariel is still a good-hearted person with no intention to do wrong by anyone, and even asks to be killed lest she turn into a monster and the people around her are like ‘nah, you’ll be fine’ and send her off to peaceful exile. That’s just...not a very compelling evil character, is it? She just, what, wanders the desert long enough she succumbs to her temptation, which everyone knew about, and they were perfectly willing to set her off on her own, knowing what she could do and would do again if chance came along? That doesn’t sound like Clariel’s problem to me. Also, at the end of the book Garth himself jumps in as the narrator to try and moralize Clariel’s actions: “a girl who did not make very good choices in life.” I mean... what else was she supposed to think, and how else was she supposed to act, given that literally nobody was doing their fucking jobs when Clariel was alive? The king & the Abhorsen were all very much shirking their responsibilities, it’s the entire plot of the book, and Clariel’s...what, bad for being the only character to try and do something? What, she’s a bad person for not seeing the future like the Clayr, for not trusting untrustworthy people to do their jobs when they clearly hadn’t been, like what the fuck was Clariel literally responsible for. Yes, she uses Free Magic - but only because it’s the only power she has that’s strong enough to make any change, when literally everyone around her is acting like a goddamn clown. I’m sorry, but that doesn’t sound like a bad guy to me. The actual moment Clariel actually turns even is, you will note, not even IN this book about her supposed evil origins. Clariel ACTUALLY succumbs to evil somewhere later after this book is finished, alone and driven to insanity by Free Magic in the forest, one would presume. We never get to see that moment as a reader so even though we now know everything else about her, we still don’t know WHICH character flaw precisely led to Clariel’s downfall, which if you think about it is kind of the only reason this book even proposes to exist.

-and on that note, why the fuck does Belatiel give Clariel the bronze mask back in the end? It was pretty contrived. Wouldn’t the mask hold only terrible, awful reminders for Clariel, a reminder of a time she went awol and almost got the king killed & one of the charter stones broken with his spilt blood?? A time she betrayed the kingdom, consorted with evil beings who in the end betrayed and almost killed her, a time when she was seen as a pure villain, and she actually did get several other innocent people killed, lets not forget that, so it’s also a reminder of the time she became (indirectly) responsible for murder? Again: why the fuck would Belatiel give Clariel back the mask after they healed her? It almost welded to her face while she was using Free Magic and they had to pry it off - it’s just so contriiiiived. Like, I get it: she’s Chlorr of the Mask, The Woman With No Face, so she has to have the mask in the end. But the way she gets it? Is just so forced, like the entire plot that fails to convince me she’s this ‘evil’ person. My real question is why not just go for it and make her evil? That’s what we all signed up for when we opened the book, isn’t it? We all, as readers who’ve read the rest of the Old Kingdom books presumably, know that Clariel is going to end up as an evil necromancer, and later one of the Greater Dead serving Hedge to free Orannis. So why not make that what this is, and give her a convincing story arc that actually shows her descent into evil? She’s way too sympathetic, way too good hearted, even by the end. Just make her evil! She has all the potential, it’s right there - all of the pieces have been set up, but Garth just won’t (or can’t) do it. She’s angry, she’s antisocial, her mother and father are killed and she’s had a taste of power and lusts after it: can’t she just...you know...be a bad person? Is it that hard?

-Lastly, and I know this isn’t important, but in the beginning when the fisherman gets the bottle with the free magic creature trapped inside, and it’s mentioned the bottle was 900 years old, I was really hoping that we were going to have this sort of historical...ancestral line of evil from way, WAY back reaching through time to Sabriel & Lirael’s time via Chlorr. I was hoping that 900 year old creature was what would ultimately possess Clariel, or influence her and become her companion throughout her necromancy career (if you can call it a career?), and that it’s just this long legacy of evil tracing back to who-knows-how far back, maybe left to the reader’s imagination. Anyway. That’s a small bone to pick, but I thought that’s where it was going originally and I still hold that that would’ve made a better story.

#books #my posts #clariel #garth nix #old kingdom #abhorsen

[skydalorian]

A sort-of WIP (we'll see if I get to another draft) of Clariel/Chlorr.

#sabriel #clariel #chlorr #chlorr of the mask #abhorsen #the old kingdom #old kingdom trilogy #myart #my art #garth nix

[quotes-from-the-bookery]

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.

#clariel #abhorsen #garth nix #mogget #quotes

[getinthehandbasket]

So.. I’m pretty sure Clariel is autistic as well as aro/ace.

#clariel #abhorsen #the old kingdom series #booklr #representation in media

[amethyst-the-necromancer]

#tales of arcadia #nari of the eternal forest #clariel #the old kingdom #Official necromancer sexyman tournament

[shadowkupkake]

Currently obsessed with the Old Kingdom series.

So the Abhorsen family tree/line is HUGE(Sabriel and Lirael are 53 and 54 after all) and it spans almost 1000 years.

Well there are family members mentioned, even ones that aren't Abhorsens, which means my hyperfixating ass is making the family tree/order to the best of my ability with the resources at my disposal...now to actually work on it

#the old kingdom #abhorsen #Sabriel #Lirael #terciel and elinor #Clariel #its about to get crazy #goldenhand

[canonaspecswag]

It's time for the Canon Aspec Swag Qualifiers!

I hope you all enjoyed the preliminaries!

We have 73 entrants with two or more submissions. To get us down to 64, characters randomly selected from the two submission pool will compete in a qualifying mini bracket.

The Qualifiers Mini Bracket

Abel Moreau from Entropic Float vs Peri Dubois from Entropic Float

Chloe Turner from The Bright Sessions vs Clariel from the Old Kingdom book series by Garth Nix

Ca$h Piggott from Heartbreak High vs Shubble from Empires SMP

Ekundayo Kunleo from the Raybearer duology by Jordan Ifueko vs Keladry of Mindelan from Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce

Round Two

Abel Moreau vs Chloe Turner

Keladry of Mindelan vs Shubble

Round Three

Abel Moreau vs Shubble

Final Round

Aya vs Shubble

Bonus Round Because I Messed Up: Tolya Yul-Bataar vs Sam Bailey vs Shubble

#qualifiers mini bracket #canon aspec swag showdown #abel moreau #peri dubois #chloe turner #clariel #ca$h piggott #shubble #ekundayo kunleo #keladry of mindelan #sam bailey #tolya yul bataar

[goodgrammaritan]

"Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government," said Ader.

Clariel by Garth Nix

#garth nix #clariel #government #madness