#ian c. esslemont

[joelchaimholtzman]

Book Cover I was commissioned to paint by Tor Books / Macmillan.

Forge of the High Mage: A Novel of the Malazan Empire, written by Ian C Esslemont.

The book was actually released before I got to work on it, and the cover was initially made with stock imagery before I was asked to paint it from scratch.

A bit different than my usual work, but hope you still like it,

Cheers!

#dungeons and dragons #board games #concept art #fantasy art #tabletop games #digital painting #magic the gathering #character design #ancient history #wizard #fantasy book #fantasy author #fantasy architecture #fantasy castle #sorcerer

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

5 and 37 for the ask game?

5: Books or authors that influenced your style the most

When I was a teenager, I read this high fantasy series called the Malazan Book of the Fallen, written by Steven Erikson (and Ian C. Esslemont, but I've only read the Eriskon half of the series). It's very dense and honestly kind of hard to keep track of all the different characters and plot lines and lore, but one thing Erikson does really well is that he makes you feel how much vastly older and larger the world is than the story that's taking place around the characters. I wouldn't say that my writing resembles Erikson's stylistically, and I honestly don't particularly want it to, but whenever I'm world-building, I try to create that sense that there's a complex, lived-in world that exists beyond the story I'm telling and that will continue to exist after it's over.

37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you.

I don't know if this counts as an inspirational quote, but it's what I thought of when I saw this question (also spoilers for Susanna Clarke's Piranesi):

People were walking up and down the path. An old man passed me. He looked sad and tired. He had broken veins on his cheeks and a bristly white beard. As he screwed up his eyes against the falling snow, I realised I knew him. He is depicted on the northern wall of the forty-eight western hall. He is shown as a king with a little model of a walled city in one hand while the other hand he raises in blessing. I want to seize hold of him and say to him: In another world you are a king, noble and good! I have seen it! -Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

#ask games

[book-ramblings]

MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN

A couple of weeks ago I finished The Crippled God, the tenth and final book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. What a journey that series turned out to be!

I loved it. I’m not the biggest fan of military campaigns, and there is a lot of that in the books, but they were soooo good! I’m now looking forward to moving on with Ian C Esslemont’s Malazan Empire series, and all the other, shorter series in the world.

Instead of following a handful of characters, there are hundreds. Some show up in book after book, some only for a scene. Some of the characters I love are Tattersail, Fiddler, Whiskeyjack, Kalam, Quick Ben, Lostara Yil, the Paran siblings, Mael, Brys and Korlat to mention a few.

The series is often talked about as difficult, I did not find it so. It is very complex, and you probably have to accept the idea you’re not going to get and/or remember everything immediately. Of course, I have studied some literature at university, and have read a lot my whole life from many different genres, including classic books. Maybe that helps.

And there are so many great quotes! I’m giving one example that stuck with me. In the last book two people are talking and the first person asks a question:

“‘Will you all die in the name of love?’ The question seemed torn from something inside him.

‘If die we must, what better reason?’”

I’ve had an extremely stressful time at work, so I’ve not written anything in a long while, but I’m going to try to do better going forwards. Also, is there a way to recover a deleted post, I may have accidentally deleted a post from this blog.

#malazan #books #steven erikson

[ryvnemunson]

"When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge."

- Ian C. Esslemont, Stonewielder

#quotes #light academia #literature #classic #dark academia #book #chaotic academia #aesthetic #poetry

[luartemisfowl]

La notte dei coltelli di Ian C. Esslemont

Salve e benvenut* alla mia tappa del review party dedicato a La notte dei coltelli di Ian C. Esslemont. Un grazie a Valeria per aver organizzato l’evento e alla casa editrice per la copia in anteprima, che non ha influenzato in alcun modo le mie opinioni. La piccola isola di Malaz e la sua città hanno dato il nome al grande Impero, ma ormai sono poco più di uno squallido porto dimenticato.…

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#La notte di coltelli #malaz #malazan #recensione #review #Review Party

[filipmagnuswrites]

Five Fantasy Series I Hope To Read In 2022

Five Fantasy Series I Hope To Read In 2022

Another weekend is close to an end and so it’s time to once more look to the future! Before your regularly scheduled Sunday Star Wars posts make their long-awaited return, let me inspire you to read more by talking about a few of those THICC fantasy series I hope to get through in the coming ten and a half months! Mistborn: Wax & Wayne I read The Alloy of Law perhaps two, even three years ago,…

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#book blog #Book of the Ancestor #Brandon Sanderson #Fantasy #fiction #Ian C. Esslemont #K. J. Parker #literature #Mark Lawrence #Mistborn #Path to Ascendancy #Robert Jackson Bennett #The Founders Trilogy #The Siege #Wax and Wayne #writer #Writing

[tionitro]

Malazan Empire #6 | Assail (Assalto) - Ian C. Esslemont | Resenha, Citações, Mapas, Ilustrações, Resumo da Trama | NITROLEITURAS - Guia Tio Nitro da Saga Malazan #resenha #releitura #malazan

Malazan Empire #6 | Assail (Assalto) – Ian C. Esslemont | Resenha, Citações, Mapas, Ilustrações, Resumo da Trama | NITROLEITURAS – Guia Tio Nitro da Saga Malazan #resenha #releitura #malazan

Este é o 6º post de minhas resenhas da saga MALAZAN EMPIRE, a série que complementa a saga Malazan: Book of the Fallen, escrita pelo amigo do Steven Erikson, o Ian C. Esselmont!  E este é também o 16º  post do meu projeto GUIA TIO NITRO DA SAGA MALAZAN, uma RELEITURA de todos os livros da saga Malazan – Book of the Fallen de Steven Erickson e uma leitura dos livros da saga Malazan Empire de Ian…

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#Análise de Livros #Crítica #Crítica de Livros #Crítica Literária #Criação Literária #Dark Fantasy #Dica de Livro de Fantasia #Dicas de Livro #Dicas de Livros #Dicas para Escritores #Fantasia #Fantasia Brutal #Fantasia Medieval #Fantasia Sombria #Guia Tio Nitro da Saga Malazan #Guia Tio Nitro Malazan #Ian C. Esslemont #Legião A Era da Desolação #Leitura #Leitura Crítica #literatura #Malazan #Malazan Empire #Malazan Livro dos Caídos #Malazan Volume 8 #Marca da Caveira #Newton Nitro #Nitroblog #NitroDicas #Nitroleituras

[gsnoveladventures]

#booklr #books #bookstagram #booklover #booklife #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #tbrpile #bookaddict #bookblogger #new books #dan simmons #R. Scott Baker #Ian C. Esslemont

[theseadoesnotdreamofyou]

Some of you never got imprisoned in Dragnipur, doomed to unknown ages of backbreaking work and it shows.

#steven erikson #ian c. esslemont #malazan #book of the fallen #meme #anomander rake #sword of darkness #dragnipur #chains #wagon #chaos #it really builds character

[i-laugh-all-the-way-to-hell]

Dancer’s Lament by Ian C. Esslemont.

nice!

#books #book cover #malazan book of the fallen #Malaz #Ian C. Esslemont #dancer’s lament #fantasy #i live for this #the voices in my head

[windblownleaf]

I fear spring’s been cancelled. As has summer.

Ian C. Esslemont, Assail (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #6)

#malazan #quote #quotes #assail #spring #summer #malazan book of the fallen #ian c. esslemont

[torpublishinggroup]

Happy Release Day! Here's what went on sale today.

#Oathbringer #Brandon Sanderson #Cosmere #The Stormlight Archive #books #The Eterna Solution #Leanna Renee Hieber #Deadhouse Landing #Ian C. Esslemont #Seriously Hexed #Tina Connolly #Mandelbrot the Magnificent #Liz Ziemska #sff #tor books #torbooks #tor teen #tor.com publishing

[rafyki]

I just finished reading Deadhouse Landing and let me tell you, that book is amazing. (Spoiler ahead! Minors, but still spoilers). Definitely the best of Esslemont's works, and probably one of the best in the whole saga. I loved every word and every scene (well, almost every scene, bc i don't particularly like Kallor and also the scene with the executions on Kartool are disgusting, but nonetheless I appreciate them).

Dancer and Kellanved are fantastic. I love Cotillion and Shadowthrone and I love Dancer and Kellanved just as much. Every interaction they have is simply brilliant and almost always hilarious. And Dancer being so protective of Kellanved made me so happy???? I love how he went from wanting to kill him to wanting to protect him (yes, i ship them, sue me).

I also loved Dassem a lot, like a whole lot. He's such an amazing character. He's the Mortal Sword of Hood, he is probably the most deadly character and still he is also probably the only true good person. He is so pure????? The scene at the bridge when he fight on his own against the Napan is beautiful, there's something very poetic about it, about the fact that Dassem feels sadness because of what he has to do.

These three I loved the most, they are definitely my favourite. Tbh of my fave part is when they meet again (yes, ot3, i ship it).

But I also loved everyone else. The Napans, Nedurian, Tattersail, Tayschreen, and Agayla and Nightchill. I love how you don't really understand who is who until they change their name, like Shimmer in the first book and now Opal, and also Tattersail at the beginning. (And the way Kellanved chooses his name???? Lmao that made me laugh so much)

I love how everything fit together, how everything comes into place. I especially love how they're starting to become a family, and honestly knowing how everything will end and how everything will play out (especially with Surly and Dassem) breaks my heart. I want them to be happy????? Is that so much to ask???? Yes, It is, i know It. But tbh, thinking about that scene in Toll The Hounds (i think????) when Dassem and Cotillion and Shadowthrone meet again just breaks my heart. Why does everything have to be so sad with these books???? Dassem, especially, they don't call him the Lord of Tragedy for nothing.

So, I'm in love with this book. As always with these books there are some things that confuses me, but that's one of the thing that I like about this series, the fact that they don't explain everything and that I have to think about it. (So, who wants to come here and fangirl with me??? °v°)

Tbh, now i just want to re read the whole series °v°

#the malazan book of the fallen #Deadhouse Landing #path to ascendency #ian c esslemont #malazan #text

[corporal-nobbs]

Saeng and Hanu

From Blood and Bone by Ian C Esslemont

#malazan #saeng #hanu #blood and bone #malazan book of the fallen #novel of the malazan empire #my art #for the #advent calendar

[welcometoyouredoom]

Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.

Ian C. Esslemont (Blood and Bone)

#quote #ian c esslemont #organization #scrutiny #meritocracy #utter fools

[waterdeep]

Bibliophile, Autobiography and Appendix? :)

bibliophile: what popular book series haven’t you read yet?

oh, there are so so many. 

a song of ice and fire by george r.r. martin.

malazan book of the fallen by steven erikson and ian c. esslemont.

the imperial radch by ann leckie.

lightbringer series by brent weeks.

the faithful and the fallen by john gwynne.

the riyria series by michael j. sullivan.

gentleman bastards sequence by scott lynch.

there are also some popular series i’ve barely started (ie they’re 5+ books long and i’ve only read the first or second) like:

the realm of the elderlings by robin hobb.

the wheel of time by robert jordan.

the dragonlance series by margaret weis and tracy hickman.

the legend of drizzt by r.a. salvatore - i’m six books in, but this series is Huge.

nightrunners series by lynn flewelling.

autobiography: who is the protagonist you most relate to?

this is haaaard, uhhhh... off the top of my head, shallan davar and jasnah kholin from the stormlight archive, for different reasons. i want to think about this more and come back to this later lmao

appendix: overdone book trope that you still love?

answered this one here!

book-related asks

#misc: asks #tysm!! 💕 #heywizards