#Scrael

[skyheachi]

When Nari Back to Scrael and Belloc.

Bellock casts spell on Nari.

#tales of arcadia #trollhunters #trollhuntersnetflix #rise of the titans #Trollhunters Nari #Arcain Orders

[incorrect-kkc-theories]

The Scrael don’t simply look/feel like stone. They *are* stone; puppets that can only be created through the application of the True Name of Stone.

Let’s just say that Fela and Sim’s relationship ended .... poorly.

#kkc #incorrect theories #simmon #Kvothe is mod iron #fela #king killer chronicles

[logarithmicpanda]

Let's obsessively analyse notw, part 1!

- the prologue is a really beautiful piece. Vivid imagery, and it creates an ambiance of mystery to pull readers in, in very few words

- the first chapter is so rich in details, gods. Every paragraph serves to subtly give information on the setting : times are hard, the inn is usually pretty empty, it's a small town with the mentality that goes with it...

- there's the story about Taborlin, establishing both a first whiff at the magic in the setting, a sense of the mythology these people have, and preparing the echo for the Rookery scene

- tinker lore! And chandrian lore! Both important bits of ... Can we say foreshadowing when it's actually events in the past? Lol

- amulet cold as ice, so probably a gram of some sort. An interesting insight on the truth behind the stories, so we're setting up things for the major theme of the book early on, too

- do we actually ever know what bad thing happened on Shep's farm? I don't think we do

- some accentuation on the chandrian lore, establishing questions we still only have vague answers to 2 books later lol

- Cob arrives covered in blood so we shift into action, and I find it interesting to notice that Kote has not been named the whole time. As if hiding in the shadows of his own story, like he's just the innkeeper, the background character you hardly need to pay attention to

- and there the first actual magical element is revealed, the scrael, and Kote is finally named because his behavior slipped. The next couple paragraphs make it clear he was acting the part of the innkeeper and actually knows more

- also it's time for fantasy racism! We establish that traders are badly seen, especially the caeldish (though at this point we don't know what that means. That book was truly written to be reread)

- not that subtle but we are told that this is it, we're in the story now, not just what happens far from home and you hear about, but the real thing. It's kinda funny that the inn part is absolutely not the main focus down the line

- a bit more mythology dump, and an opportunity to show Kote is not on good terms with God lol

- now that Kote is no longer in the background, my boy goes back to his roots and put on a good show! We hint at the fact he's a storyteller, and we already established he's full of shit a liar

And that was just the first scene! Good gods.

- there's the first real introduction as Kote focused on him, and it plays with the expectations and tropes of the genre

- it's a night with no moon, which is interesting because it will echo later the way we're told it's not a good idea to be out on a night such as those

- enters Bast! Who brings a smile to Kote's tired face, it's kinda nice... Until there's the whole thing about girls being better than books. Took me 5 seconds to remember why I don't particularly love Bast lol

- I wonder what happens if a scrael is not properly disposed of. Does it bring others? Or starts living again?

- a small mention of the troupe, just after Kote established a fake background for himself

- Why does Bast need Kote to teach him, exactly? He doesn't seem to learn anything he couldn't learn at the University

- now we focus on the chest, another mystery, and it adds to the suspicion that Kote really isn't what he appears to be

- the inn's customer come back and we lay a bit of groundwork about the war and roads being bad to lay down the groundwork for Chronicler's introduction

- aaaand that's finally the end of chapter 1. I doubt I'll go in that much detail from now on but first chapters are important

Tl;dr: there's a vast amount of worldbuilding and setup done from the get go. A dash of playing with tropes of the genre, and the first hints at the major themes of the series. Honestly, I'm impressed with the level of detail conveyed, it doesn't feel too heavy but upon careful consideration, there's hardly anything superfluous

#the kingkiller chronicle #panda talks #let's obsess over kkc #reblog later

[marsmellowpink]

Human History vs Demon History

Welcome back to Marsie loving this game so much that he replays the game again and again just to make a random comparison or analysis

Let's start today analysis with history!! More exactly how history plays part on the Royal Order World and how different kinds view and uphold those

Started with Human History!!

Let's start with the obvious of how Humans always quick to blame the Sval every time there's a murder happens in this game. This is an immediate reaction when humans starved demons back in ancient times when demons would go insane just for their survival and because they were starving. Because of starvation demons went insane, the same goes for the Sval who become more brutal because of the same thing, so I cannot blame the humans for feeling it

The second one is how humans regard the sval as mere slavers. Instead of thinking of them as demons or magical beasts (since they're half demon, half human), humans regard them as slavers. This is another pointer: humans simply didn't know about the past or the demons well enough. Another example of humans not knowing about the demons is when Aarya gets captured and asks people who interrogate them about what they think of demons, Ven answers that she thought that they were just legends from times long gone.

The last part is how humans' history, what happened to them and what have they done seems to be forgotten. This can be concluded by how Aarya is the one who explains what have happened in the ancient war to their interrogators

Well, if we fast forward a little bit towards the ending, we of course would've known what happened until all the humans forgot about what happened in the ancient war. It simply happened because those knowledge and memories are wiped using magic, leaving humans clueless to the past

Move the demon's side of history, of course, they remember everything. Despite being seen as a brutal way of living in human eyes, for demons, the old ways of living are a normal thing to experience. Every person, no matter how strong or weak, will be eaten one day, and that's totally okay and normal

And different from humans who forgot about the ancient war, every sval, even the youngest in recent days still remembers or still knows about the ancient war. It is probably a direct result because they got the disadvantages since they're starved for a millennium

So, until reaching Aarya's happy ending, every single one of the sval or the demons remembers the ancient war. But the day Aarya reached their happy ending, it is said that demons or svals born after them will no longer remember the ancient war. It is the choice all of them made for the better since they're no longer at a disadvantage.

Seeing how different the humans and the sval remember about history just shows how bitter the world can be. The winning side can just forget about the war and live their way happily without remembering, but the losing side has to bear that history for years because of their disadvantages when losing the war that they were forced to participate in the first place

It's fun to reread the story to learn how different humans and svals are, but at the end of the day, they just trying to survive. But sadly, one of them is on the winning side, and the other is on the losing side.

Also!! it is funny how humans still call demons, "demons", while demons/svals already call scraelings, "humans", despite both of those titles (demon and scraeling) being derogatory titles.

TLDR; Fricking double standards :))

#royal order #otome game #visual novel #sometimes I forgot how I hated humans in this game #until it being brought up again of how cruel they're back in the ancient war #the bad endings is not that bad at all tbh #since the sval and the demons finally got the justice they deserves #but yeah #whatever #I still like all the ending nevertheless #aarya de chabenet

[acicueta]

Scrael & The Scribe — The Art of 'The Name of the Wind by Dan Dos Santos

#dan dos santos #kvothe #Patrick Rothfuss #the kingkiller chronicles #scrael #acicueta

[verformen-sturm]

'...My magic makes me who I am; vithout it I possibly vould be a whole different troll thing no unique features about themself vasting avay in ze darklands.'

#;ic status #//scrael you got his brain thinking

[death-by-degrees]

I wrote a new poem

It’s been a long time since my poetic muse has visited me I like to think she’s been on holiday in Scotland. This is the result. I absolutely love free verse and this wee mind-drabble came from rediscovering the word ‘scraeling’.

Nationality - Scraeling.

I’m a New Zealand scraeling My blood calls longingly. Many miles of ocean echo With the sound of my heart Trying to find its home.

My past is a forest Mysterious Green and still growing. My ancestor’s roots Sank into different soil Than that beneath my own feet And yet My red leaves And blue-grey flowers Are those of my stunted hazel great-grandmother While my bones have the solid oaken strength Of my great grandfathers.

My blood is pulled Tidal, moon to moon Like the tides that stroke the shores. Blue veins running Swift beneath my skin Almost as blue As the echoing oceans That steal my heart with whispers Of home.

By Becky Ellen-Johnson, 2019.

#writeblr #poetblr #my writing #spilled thoughts #poetry #free verse #scraeling #I'm a poet #I'm so happy with this

[bibliophile-angst]

So how about I was trying to read NOTW and I was in my feels internally crying because Kvothe and I felt something tickle my neck. I figured it was just my hair so I grabbed it but it was freakin squishy and wet and I got scared so I just threw it and when I turned on my flashlight, I found the body of a freakin spider next to my bed and got scared it would come back so I hit it with my pants to make sure it was ded and now I feel bad because what if it just wanted to cuddle in my neck fat because it’s warm and I killed it...like it was probably just trying to find a spot to chill and I just crushed it to death with my fingers...

#rip spooder #i just cant with spiders #i didnt sign up for this #i was just trying to have a good time and im feelin so attacked rn #kvothe #name of the wind #notw #patrick rothfuss #i was just reading the part where the freakin scrael shows up #talk about signs #i blame kvothe

[americangodstalk]

The chronology of the Old Gods (in the novel)

I have been working a bit on creating the chronology of the Old Gods arrival in the novel, based on the information we are given. It is far from being complete, but here’s already what I got (if I forgot anything don’t hesitate to remind me)

Chronology in the book:

14 000 BCE: Siberians tribes arrive in America through Beringia, the land bridge that connected Siberia to present-day Alaska. They brought their gods with them (such as the mammoth-god Nunyunnini), but their descendants abandonned them, and developped their own gods. These tribes were the ancestors of Native Americans.

7000 BCE: The Ainu, the Japanese aboriginal race, came to America. The skull of one of them was found in the 20st century.

5000 BCE: Polynesians came to what is known today as California. The skull of some of them were found in the 20st century.

1530 BCE: Egyptians came to America to trade. They exchanged with the Natives animal skins, food and copper from "what would later become Michigan's upper peninsula". They stayed long enough to believe and worship the Egyptian gods and to bury the few of them who died of a fever, but realizing America was not a good trading land they left.

7th century: Welsh people came to America and brought with them Gwydion.

800: The Basque established their secret sacred fishing grounds on the coast of "Newfoundland".

813: A group of thirty Norsemen discovered North America, built there a hall for their gods (specifically Thor, Tyr and Odin, to which they sacrificed a Native American), but left after starting a war with the local "scraeling" people.

900s: Leif the Lucky, son of Erik the Red, re-discovers America, which he calls the Vinland. Their presence reinforces the Nordic gods.

In the Dark Ages, the Irish went to America. During the same era, Africans from the West Coast traded with South America, and the Chinese visited "a couple of times" what they called Fu Sang (today's Oregon).

The European colonization of America (from the 16th to the 19th centuries) brought numerous European gods and entities, notably gods and creatures from the Cornish, Irish, British and Germanic cultures.

The Atlantic slave trade (from the 16th to the 19th centuries) brought numerous gods from the African continent, most of them surviving through new religious practices such as the American forms of West African Vodun (Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo...).

#american gods #novel #old gods #history #chronology #book

[amazingfandommomarch]

Someone should edit the train scene but when bellroc and scrael comes in it playing me heat miser and snow miser song from a year without a Santa clause .

#rott spoilers #trollhunters rott #troll hunters #toa the arcane order #arcane order #toa #tales of arcadia #rott

[bookcub]

my gf and I are listening to the name of the wind!!! she found the first chapter boring (relatable lol), and thought it was no longer that boring. she likes bast so far and caught the cotton eye joe reference. we ended at the end of chapter 4, when kote kills the scrael.

#kkc #kingkiller chronicle

[twostepsfromtemerant]

NoTW notes chapters 1-6

Okay, this is really long, so I’m putting it under a cut. I have a lot of Thoughts about this book, and Rothfuss had to go and sprinkle important information all throughout everything, without actually answering any of the questions that get raised

Random Shit

“Now Taborlin needed to escape, but when he looked around, he saw his cell had no door. No windows. All around him was nothing but smooth, hard stone. It was a cell no man had ever escaped,” (4). Like the cell Elodin was in when he was in Haven. A cell designed to hold a Namer. 

Taborlin has an amulet that protects him from physical harm as well as demons, and is “cold as ice to touch,” (4-5). That seems like a gram

Thrice locked chest has locks of iron, copper, and one that could not been seen. Tonight the wood filled the room with the almost imperceptible aroma of citrus and quenching iron,” (15). Same scent as Lackless box/Cthaeh I think?

The mounting board for the sword says “Folly” which is a recurring theme

When a caravan comes to the inn, two of them are described as “Two young men, one sandy-haired, one dark, well dressed and well spoken,” (26) and later it is the sandy-haired one that recognized Kvothe. This is Sim and Wil and nothing can convince me otherwise

In one of the stories told about him, Kvothe tricked a demon to get his heart’s desire, and then killed an angel to keep it (46)

Timeline

Kote has only been in town for a year or so (5)

Doesn’t look even near thirty (11)

… three years ago no one would have even thought of locking their doors at night, let alone barring them,” (17). Kvothe started this war recently. It hasn’t been going on long, but is pretty intense. 

Sometime between the end of WMF and where we are in the frame story, Kvothe killed someone in Imre that caused all the cobblestones to crack near a fountain (28)

Kote shook his head. “It was a long time ago-”

“Not even two years,” Chronicler protested (44)

Kote vs Kvothe vs Innkeeper

He’s the innkeeper until he is perceived by the people in the inn. He’s the innkeeper when he says the thing about tinkers, and then “The men at the bar seemed almost surprised to see Kote standing there,” (5). 

Innkeeper when he says scrael “can’t have made it this far west yet,” (7).

He’s doing Kvothe shit, but obviously not Kvothe

“He called himself Kote. He had chosen the name carefully when he came to this place. He had taken a new name for most of the usual reasons, and for a few unusual ones as well, not the least of which was the fact that names were important to him,” (10). Carefully worded, it’s not He is Kote, it’s He calls himself Kote. And fun foreshadowing about Naming. 

Graham noticed “the innkeeper” looked sickly, the color of his hair and eyes is dulled, and his voice/gestures are subdued. There’s a whole bit about the color of his eyes, which is something that comes up again (22)

Becomes Kote when talking to Bast, after Graham leaves. 

“Using both hands, Bast held it up to him, looking for a moment like a squire offering up a sword to some bright-armored knight. But there was no knight there, just an innkeeper, just a man in an apron who called himself Kote,” (24).

“In the firelight his hair was impossibly red, his eyes a shocking, vibrant green” (35). This is Chronicler’s POV so he’s just “the man” or “the hooded figure” but it’s a distinct description of his hair and eyes

Become Kote when it switches to his POV when Chronicler passes out

The first time he is Kvothe is when he’s about to start his story (48)

Religion/mythology/history

Demons fear cold iron, clean fire, and the holy name of God (9)

When iron is pressed to the scrael, there’s a cracking sound, and “the sweet, acrid smell of rotting flowers and burning hair,” (10)

Scrael was taken to the priest who did “all the right things for all the wrong reasons,” (12). The body was burned in a deep pit with rowan wood. Same thing that happened to the draccus.

Townspeople think it’s a demon, implied by Kvothe to not be

Later, Kvothe tells Chronicler that it’s demons in the shape of big black spiders

Chandrian

Old Cob telling a story in the Waystone pg 3

“... cause the lamps on the wall were all burning blue”

“Everyone knows that blue fire is one of their signs”

[The Chandrian] were the first six people to refuse Tehlu’s choice of the path, and he cursed them to wander the corners—”

In the children’s song, the signs of Chandrian are blue fire, and man with eyes “black as crow”, and a man without a face (26-27)

Frame story plot

“Everyone knew that something bad had happened out on [Shep’s] farm last Cendling night, but since there were good friends they knew better than to press him for the details,” (5). 

No moon the night the scrael is discovered, so either it’s a new moon, or the moon has been stolen again. 

The Penitent King is having trouble with rebels in some far off place. No idea who that is, or what the rebels are rebelling against

“Listen friend, the king’s army is paying good money…” (18). Is this the Penitent King? A different one? 

Some sort of beast is attacking livestock in Newarre (31)

There are rebels to be fought in someplace called Meneras (32)

Languages 

Temic

Tehus antausa eha (14)

Unknown

Aroi te denna-leyan (14)

Fae

Anpauen (41)

Good Writing

“It was not a large road, or well traveled. It didn’t seem to lead anywhere, as some roads do,” (10). 

“Only priests and fools are fearless, and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God” (44).

“So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one,’ he thought numbly, the fear” (46)

#kkc #notw #patrick rothfuss #the name of the wind #kvothe

[incorrect-kkc-theories]

The draccus are the natural predators of the scrael. When the mortal and fey worlds split, scrael were all trapped in the fey, while the draccus were split evenly between the two realms. Normally, if a scrael were to wander into the material realm a draccus would eat it before it could do much damage. But since the draccus have almost all been killed off, the scrael are reproducing at an alarming rate, and swarming over the world.

#draccus #scrael #mod copper #kkc #kingkiller chronicles

[nrth-wind-a]

Scrael, have you ever heard of a troll augmented by other mages to carry magic almost naturally in their veins?

Skrael gives a thoughtful hum as he searches his memory. In eons upon eons of life, the details have a tendency to slip, sometimes.

However, experimentation with magic like that...

"I must confess that I have not." He frowns. "The effects of magic on a troll who was given it, rather than... hm.

"That you've asked suggests that you know of one such troll to whom this has been done. Will you tell me where to find them? This requires... further attention."

In truth, he is plenty aware that certain trolls, just as certain humans, do have the capacity to practice magics-- and indeed, many of them spend time developing, eventually reaching a point where they thrive in, their abilities. Though troll magics are not a branch of the arcane arts that he studies much on his own, he has delved before, in passing interest. Trolls and magic is not an unheard of association.

But troll magic is not the same as forcing magic into someone who was not originally born with magical capabilities.

The thought that it is even possible is... alarming. Greatly so.

He needs to follow up on this immediately.

#ask #anon

[5crael]

i got tagged by the wonderful @korusalka so I guess I’ll do this thing

 💜birthday: July 5th

💜 zodiac sign: Cancer (I think?)

💜 height: 194cm, 6′4

💜 last song i listened to: Jekyll & Hide by Bishop Briggs

💜 hobbies: cooking, electronics, building stuff, reading

💜 favorite color: Purple

💜 last movie i watched: I most recently rewatched Inception, but the last movie I watched for the first time was Patch Adams

💜 favorite book: The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

💜 dream job: I dream of being an aerospace engineer, doing Theatrical lighting on the side

💜 meaning behind my url: My tag on most sites/games is Scrael, but it was taken here so I took 5Crael :P

I don’t really have much of anyone to tag that hasn’t already done it or been tagged, so thats all for now :D

#about me #Thanks Sophie

[lettersfromtemerant]

Gerrek, the man dressed up as Encanis for the Midwinter celebrations in Tarbean, is actually the real Encanis, Lord of the Demons. He bought Kvothe’s soul in exchange for the silver talent, and will return to collect it in book 3. The scrael are his minions, which is why they are headed towards Newarre and the Waystone Inn.

#incorrect kkc theory #though still somewhat plausible #kkc #the kingkiller chronicles #the name of the wind