#coldfire trilogy

[first-and-last-neocount]

I was talking to a friend about my DnD character, who is based on Vanyel, and it was pointed out that I have a type. I couldn’t rest until I had inflicted this on everyone else. 

(I’ve probably forgotten about others, these are just the ones that immediately sprang to mind, feel free to point out any obvious ones that I’ve forgotten XD)

#coldfire trilogy #gerald tarrant #world of warcraft #arthas menethil #the witcher #geralt of rivia #heralds of valdemar #the last herald mage #vanyel ashkevron #bloodborne #ludwig the holy blade #i don't have a dedicated tag for my own cursed memes #but between this and the castlevania monsterfucking post i might need to start one

[rukafais]

the coldfire trilogy is about a lot of things, but mostly it's about two men who get increasingly and obsessively intertwined with each other's lives and perceptions of the world while the author is completely convinced she's writing two straight guys being dudes. Truly the rituals are intricate.

#i cannot overstate the sheer amount of subtext packed into this relationship because its like #if the author had actually realized at any point it might read as gay it wouldn't be what it is #what a fascinating series. #coldfire trilogy #damien vryce #gerald tarrant #rukart #im not making up the like author comments or anything btw shes been on record repeatedly iirc #that she doesnt understand why or how people could possibly slash damien and tarrant together #a series where one of them drags the other out of their self imposed hell and believes continously in their redemption #and the other gets dragged kicking and screaming into moral change after 900 years of considering himself a monster #for mental self defense as much as anything else

[notwithstandingclause]

Gerald Tarrant is iconic for building himself a sensory isolation forest and leaving it for like a couple hours once a decade, half of Damien's internal narration is just "why is he being so weird???" and it's like bro there are more people in this one room than he's seen in the last 500 years Give Him A Minute

#coldfire trilogy #tbh the way Friedman described Adepts has always read very autism coded to me #and Gerald especially #tbh there's a longer post on this incoming at some point I'm passionate about this issue #gerald tarrant

[anonymouseeverything]

"Crown of Shadows (Coldfire Book 3)" - C.S. Friedman Astarion Bite Scene (Baldur's Gate III) - Larian Studios ------ I don't know what I have here, but I have something.

#I have this in discord but I want it on my blog so I can stare directly at this post forever #It's about the manipulation of another party into believing they should trust you. It's about knowing you're still at their mercy. #It's about coming to terms with the fact that you might actually really trust them this time #Astarion #baldurs gate III #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 astarion #coldfire trilogy #damien vryce #gerald tarrant

[geraldtarrant]

The Coldfire Shipyard is an 18+ unofficial discord for fans of CS Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy. If you're looking for fanart, fanfics, a place to shout your Gerald/Damien thoughts outside the tumblr void, or just a friendly Coldfire fandom community to lurk in, please join us!

#coldfire trilogy #coldfire #discord server #gerald tarrant #damien vryce #discord #coldfire discord

[tamiveldura]

I'm back! It's been ages, but it felt weird to just start reblogging shit without saying Hi.

Let's see, what's new?

I'm publishing something every month. I'm writing a fuck ton on novellas in the next two years.

I'm working on drawing more (stick around for that).

I have the chronic pain under control (who fuck'n knew that was in the cards).

I am currently lacking in fandom and need some suggestions. My OTP is from a 90's anime that's been dead for yeaaaaars and then I latched onto a RareTP so fucking rare the books aren't even listed on AO3, which means no one has written anything. Of course. Convince me to play more Baulder's Gate, I'm barely past the character creation. I think I need to turn the difficulty down. My HP fanfiction is still getting kudos but I can't go back in there without the heebie-jeebies. No, I haven't seen S2 for Good Omens, yes it's on the list. I'm wrapping up My Hero Academia.

I am attempting to learn how to weight train with EDS. I am not diagnosed (like everything else), but, well, AMA and I'll go into it. For now: squats and rows.

I need your tea suggestions. No "natural flavors" just raw tea. Looking for puerh and oolong. Happy to try a Darjeeling. I think I just bought a Darjeeling.

#good omens #gundam wing forever and ever #black sun rising #coldfire trilogy #terror vampire plzty #chronic pain #digital art #author #bujo #baulders gate 3

[4th-make-quail]

There is no heterosexual explanation for this!!!

(Don't mind the vastly different font sizes, my kindle doesn't like it when I try to highlight across pages so I had to keep making the font SUPER TINY to fit in as much as possible LOL)

#coldfire trilogy #The truest form of love: nearly missing your tide while u wait for ur awful immoral vampire man to arrive #Thank u for that comment spider haha #It's so perfect #Anyway I'm SO SICK ABOUT THEM #AHHHHHHFKFKFKFJFJ #gerald tarrant #damien vryce

[redsixwing]

top 5 book series?

In no particular order, because if I try to order them strictly this'll take me even longer. I interpreted the prompt as text novels only, so ask again if you want graphic novels of any origin. ;)

The Coldfire Trilogy, C.S. Friedman. Rewrote how a young Six thought about villainy and character writing. I revisit these not quite yearly, any more, but that's more about lack of time than inclination. A priest in tension with magic users; magic they all use, and which uses them in turn. A fascinating cast of supporting characters try to save themselves and their friends from 'demons' whose lives are just as important as their own.

Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien. My introduction to fantasy, before I could read for myself. Formative in many, many ways, including inspiration of my first fanworks (no, they aren't online, and it'll stay that way). The classic; every time I revisit it, I find something new. Bottomless, truly.

Machineries of Empire, Yoon Ha Lee. If you hang around here at all, nonny, you've probably seen me holler about them. Grim bloody extremely satisfying sci-fi. Showed me things I never previously understood about how to write an anti-hero. I've read the whole trilogy at least three times through, and it hasn't been out all that long. A spacefaring ghost story about a treacherous general whose rebellion against his oppressive society threatens to burn down his entire civilization; his talented and fearsome host; their mutual enemy, and the civilization thoroughly under his thumb.

The Shadow Campaigns, Django Wexler. I had not previously read anything in the genre of 'flintlock fantasy,' but these books have such a sense of place, and such depth of character. I read them in ebook, and will some day collect them in physical format, for easy sofa slouching. A soldier, a commander, and another treacherous general working at mysterious odds to the armed forces they all serve; the 'demons' the general seeks stand a chance of remodeling the world.

The Flat Earth Cycle, Tanith Lee. Lush dreamlike writing, completely bananas worldbuilding, world-as-place-as-character-as-magic-as-world. One of those classics that rewires my brain a little every time I reread it. Has inspired me to art multiple times, but I have never managed to complete the pieces to my satisfaction. The reign, fall, and rise of Azhrarn, Night's Master. An exploration of his world, including humans and other magical beings. I truly cannot sum up the story in a few sentences.

#six reads #book recommendations #asked and answered #thanks for the ask! #coldfire trilogy #machineries of empire #lotr #the shadow campaigns #the flat earth cycle

[just-hunterthings]

I think it would be funny if Tarrant shapeshifted into a really really unnaturally large bird and just picked up Damien and carried him away, screaming, in his claws.

#most inconspicuous and dignified form of travel #adult man gets carried off like a mouse being hunted by an owl or something #the coldfire trilogy #gerald tarrant #coldfire trilogy #coldfire #cs friedman #coldfire shitposting

[theobscurepotato]

Was trying to describe Blake's 7 last night. "So it's like if you put the Coldfire Trilogy gang in a dystopian space opera. For some reason, Shaggy from Scooby-Doo is with them, too."

#coldfire trilogy #watching blakes 7 right now like #i realize blakes 7 is earlier and far more popular than CFT but still

[first-and-last-neocount]

Okay, apparently rambling in the tags of that post about Catholic heresies earlier cracked the seal and now I need to make a whole Thing about it.

The Church of Human Unification has incredibly strict dogma. That's pretty clearly established in canon. It's for good reason: the Church was created to exert a specific and focused psychic pressure on the fae, and you can't get the desired result if your worshippers are off inventing a bunch of new creative ways of interpreting your teachings. That's all well and good.

But you know what happens when your strictly dogmatic religion encounters a heresy? Especially one with a lot of appeal or one that appears to better explain observable fact than the official Church teachings?

Religious schism, baby.

The Church told its faithful that the Prophet was punished for his Fall by being condemned to Hell. That he died immediately after his transgression and was paying for his sins. If word got out that Gerald Tarrant was in fact alive, well, and happily profiting off his literal deal with the devil... I could see that causing Problems. Like the kind of problems that result in armed combat, the burning of various written materials and structures, and possibly the formation of entire new religious sects. Certainly, they would not have been in any shape to call the faithful together and form up into an orderly Crusade.

If Gerald had revealed his identity on a public scale during Crown of Shadows, I think he would have immediately cut the legs out from under the Patriarch's attempt at forming up a Crusade. However, it might very well have also endangered the fundamental integrity of the Church he founded and spent nine centuries watching from afar. Which, I'm pretty sure, is exactly why he didn't do that: it might have solved a couple of very serious problems, but even with his life in danger, Gerald would have been very reluctant to endanger his own beloved work like that.

Laying out exactly what I think that sequence of events following a public reveal of Gerald's identity would look like is something I'm going to reserve for the moment, because I think I might actually like to turn this into a proper fic, but oh man. The chaos.

#coldfire trilogy #the neocount rambles #gerald tarrant #just. please. imagine with me the patriarch's face #when he heard what had happened #i am fucking cackling already

[rukafais]

yeah sounds about right

thanks to @harukami for this idea

#gerald tarrant #damien vryce #coldfire trilogy #rukart

[notwithstandingclause]

Insane about Gerald Tarrant hours because okay okay on the surface of things he can't be party to the god he created because it would mean dying and he has chosen this half life for 1000 years, but it runs so much deeper.

Insane that in this cosmology lucifer created god and Still fell from His grace and suffers eternally at the memory of a light for which he himself drew the blueprints.

Is it about fearing the loss of power that stepping away from darkens would necessitate or is it about fearing what your very presence would Do to the god you've created? Is it about forcibly separating yourself from your creation because You are the only thing you can't fit into the paradise you're constructing?

But no it's so SO much worse for him because the thing is the one genuine miracle we see, the only time God appears in the books, it's because Damien is protecting Jensenny from Gerald. Does god Need an opposite to exist? Is falling the last step, the big sacrifice that Gerald needs to undertake to bring god into existence for everybody else? How much of the Unnamed exists independently of Gerald, and how much has the fight against that evil contributed to the spread of belief on Erna?

CS Friedman really popped off with the whole Belief Begets Being part of the worldbuilding is what I'm saying and BOY is Gerald not having a good time with it.

#gerald tarrant #coldfire trilogy #he makes me physically ill guys #you ever just think about Gerald Tarrant? #what being visibly autistic as a child does to a bitch #he's so meow meow #none of this was coherent somebody else say something

[miscellaneous-geekery]

Visit the artist's website: jeszika.com/

C.S. Friedman on csfriedman.com

#jeszika le vye #nightborne #cover art #cs friedman #coldfire trilogy

[geraldtarrant]

“He was an idealist who had swept her off her feet, caught her up in his dreams of Revival and then set her by his side while king and church jockeyed to do him the greatest honor.”

- CS Friedman, Black Sun Rising

Image generated in Midjourney.

#young gerald #gerald tarrant #coldfire trilogy #fanart #my coldfire fanart #ai images

[leydhawk]

#coldfire trilogy #art #gorgeous works #cs friedman