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[tourneys-by-me]

Preliminaries Part 5 - Luxomancy 1/3

Top 6 gets into the final preliminary.

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[botanicaxu]

Some character sketches for Lightbringer series (Gavin/Dazen & Kip)

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[aislynndmerricksson]

The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

Brent Weeks’ The Black Prism is a thrilling fantasy novel that brings readers on a journey through a world filled with political intrigue, magic, and complex characters. The story is centered around Gavin Guile, a powerful Prism who is able to harness all of the colours of light to cast magic spells, unlike regular drafters who can only use a few, or just one colour. Gavin’s world is turned…

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#author #book #book review #colour magic #colour wight #colours #fantasy #Gavin Guile #Karris #Kip #luxin #novel #prism #prismatic #Review

[i-am-a-small-hobbit]

Tagged by @eddis-not-eeddis (thanks weirdo) to share my top ten characters (no they're not all Sanderson characters)

Sazed - Mistborn (Book series, 2006-2008, Brandon Sanderson) Look, I said they're not all Sanderson Characters, not that I wouldn't have any Sanderson Characters. And seriously, Sazed is my all time favorite character. His arc in the third book particularly, where he battles with his faith, very much resonates with me specifically.

Mat Cauthon - The Wheel of Time (Book series, 1990-2013, Robert Jordan) It's honestly hard to say whether I like Mat or Perin better. I always start out reading the series with Perin as my favorite, but Mats character development is PHENOMENAL and I always finish the series with Mat being my favorite (although I don't think Sanderson quite did him justice when he posthumously finished the series for Jordan. He did quite well, but I still wish we could have gotten a finale from Jordan)

Sand dan Glokta The First Law (Book series, Joe Abercrombie, 2006-present) This is a grimdark series and I absolutely would not recommend it to anyone who is 1 squeamish about blood, and 2,doesn't wish to read anything nsfw. Because the series is heavily filled with violence and sex, to a point where I almost stopped reading. Anyhow, Glokta is a torturer and he is really cool.

Lindon - Cradle (Book series, 2017-present, Will Wight) This is an interesting one. None of the Cradle books are excellent in and of themselves, its just a pretty average book series. Except its also my second favorite book series. And I love Lindon. He's portrayed as the Very Noble, Stoic, Serious Guy most of the time. And then he comes upon a treasure room or something and immediately becomes a scheming conniving little weasel and won't leave a single valuable behind. It's quite hilarious actually.

Kip Guile - Lightbringer (Book series, 2010-2019, Brent Weeks) idk, Kip just reminds me of me a little

Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games (Book Series, 2008-2010, Suzanne Collins) I read these a while back, and she's a kick ass woman with a bow. What's not to like.

Steris Harms - Mistborn Era 2 (Book Series, 2011-present, Brandon Sanderson) Beautifully autistic, good at math. She's just like me fr

I'm board of listing all my favorite characters so speed round, waxillium ladrian, lightsong the brave, Hoid (kiss my butt you sneaky bastard), Padan Fain, Hiccup, Eithan Arelius, Adolin Kholin, Navani Kholin. That about sums it up if you wanna know who those are look em up i aint about to type out a biography for all of them

and uhhhh i dont have a lot of mutuals who haven't already done this. If any of my followers wanna do this have at it i like seeing what yall are on about sometimes

#its a little late for me to still be up and i #WILL #regret the 2 hours ive spent on this post #but it was fun up until the last 10 minutes when i completely lost interest for whatever reason #anwho night yall

[dpratt9217-blog]

Before the fight

I was standing in my spot at the front of the line facing the sparing stage. Today was not a test day. Standing at attention waiting to see what trainer Fisk had planned for us today I felt uneasy. The door in the back of the chamber opened and in walked Commander Ironfist and a rather plump boy maybe 15 years old. The commander ordered the 49 inductees to form a circle. Ironfist with his commanding voice tells us that the boy is Kip Guile and that he will be joining us, but that one person will not be staying.

[nelesfanart]

I’m currently re-reading the lightbringer series by Brent Weeks and thought I might do a little repainting of Kip. The last one I made was from 2014, and I noticed I completely whitewashed the characters. I’ll do better.

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[senpai-tankard]

Kip Guile going green golem, from Brent Week’s Lightbringer series

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[midcyru-and-the-chromeria]

Still on page two or something during my re-read ...

But really wondering how Kip was able to hold his weight, assuming neglect and the lack of money.

The situation sounds like the boy should be starving.

#the lightbringer series #lighbringer #the lightbringer #lightbringer series #Brent Weeks #Kip #kip guile

[aerynryder]

“The entire reason your class exists is so that when your city falls on hard times, you’re there to feed the starving and protect the vulnerable. In return for that, in peacetime and in plenty, you’re allowed to enjoy the fruits of excess. But you’ve not kept your bargain. You’ve not just failed your basic purpose, you’ve betrayed it. You’ve torn down this city and exploited its people when they needed you most.”

- Kip, The Blood Mirror, Brent Weeks

#the blood mirror #light bringer #the lightbringer series #brent weeks #kip guile #turtle bear #kip #lightbringer #book quotes

[a-hunch-with-scaffolding]

Kip stood, hands extended, arms extended, shoulders knotted with effort, his screams lost in the cacophony. He wept in agony, tear water blending with seawater and brightwater, salt to salt, deep to deep, magic to magic. Nothing but magic.

The Blood Mirror(P.96)

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[yayaissue]

My thoughts on The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks from the Lightbringer series.SPOILERS:

I enjoyed the plots and the magic system and of course the worldbuilding (some time it's too much and threw me off the story a bit).

But the characters suffers.

Kip progression was too fast. I enjoyed Kip in the previous books but I'm struggling with The Blood Mirror. It's hard to believe he became a great commander and inspired loyalty without difficulty. That should be an issues itself. At the same time, with him becoming a great man and saw him growing up. Kip's plot feels like a filler. Nothing important really happen. Probably the point of Kip's chapters are to show the readers that he's now the leader but again I don't bought it.

Karris, I hate her since the last book. She is so condescending. She is now the white, she controls Chromeria and the seven satrapies but she don't act like it. She should thread carefully how she treated people even if that people is awful. If this is real, she already be killed. I want to see her dance carefully with the nobles but she just cast them away rudely and there's no consequence when it should be.

Secondary characters. What is the point of Zymun. This book is 600 pages long but can't fit him in. I don't want to read another soulless villain but I think Zymun might be it. Andross, he used to be fun to read and still is but I want to see the planning, the struggles as Pramachos but well he's portrayed as a perfect villain who somehow know everything. There's no conflict and it's boring. The Mighty, I find the name a bit cringy. They are one dimensional, the author just give them one personalty trait each and stop.

Not all bad for me. I love Gavin's chapters. The revelation is amazing and it makes sense. The author put the breadcrumbs in the previous books. I think Gavin is the most flest out character in this series. Surprisingly, Teia's POVs are fun to read too. Before this book, I don't really care for her but this book change it. Teia realised that the world is complicated and it's not black and white. She's navigating how to live in the corrupt world is a breath of fresh air. Somehow still have faith in Orhalam is interesting for me to read.

This series hold religion of Orhalam to high up. Obviously, I think Orhalam and all the pagan gods are bullshit, evil and selfish. I really hope the last book reveal what is the point of Orhalam.

Off to the last book, The Burning White.Excited to see how it all end.

I just finished the book so just want to share my opinion. Cheers.

#lightbringer series #the blood mirror #gavin guile #kip guile

[harrypotterhousequotes]

GRYFFINDOR: "A man's got to act without knowing everything, or he'll never do anything." –Brent Weeks (Kip Guile: The Blinding Knife)

#harry potter #house quotes #gryffindor #the blinding knife #kip guile #brent weeks #hphq

[gavin-guile-blog]

“I am of you," said Kip."I am Guile as much as you are. True, I have a scrap of decency, but only a scrap. How do you think you can treat a Guile with such disregard and get away with it? Because I am you. I'm as cold as you, I'm as smart as you, and when you push me, I'm as evil and cruel as you. I have a thin film of goodness floating on the top of my Guile, grandfather, but I don't know how senile you must be to miss just how thin it is.”

Kip Guile “The Broken Eye” by Brent  Weeks

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[lyfae]

Day 16 - Fat

so today I followed the prompt - yes yes I did. 

Fat made me think of Kip Guile, but I couldn’t draw him properly for now, so I focused on his green bouncy ball of doom. Without a green marker.

Anyway, it made me practice hand drawing, using awesome reference from Kibbitzer’s gallery. Also made me think hard about how chromaturgy is supposed to work. Still unsure how luxin behave while it’s being drafted.

It also makes pretty clear how inappropriate my sketchbook is for markers, all I can see are those marker strokes everywhere ...

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[cloudybookash-blog]

Book Review: The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks.

Genre: High-Fantasy (supposedly ‘pre- industrial’)

Goodreads rating: **** (4 stars).

Read: 13/02/2017 – 19/02/2017.

The Review:

Are you a big fan of the Lightbringer series? So am I. Which is why, it saddens me to have to say, I think the third instalment of this series is suffering something akin to ‘second-book-it is’.

Warning: There could be spoiler for the previous books (The Black Prism/ The Blinding Knife) beyond this point. There will be no spoilers for this particular book though.

Synopsis: With Gavin lost and presumed dead the Chromeria faces a new prism elect. The political throws of the Chromeria rear their ugly heads and the sinister lost Order of the Broken Eye take advantage of the chaos to infiltrate places of power.

Obviously, as a book suffering ‘second-book-it is’ there was a lack of action and movement; lots of filler in the disguise of irrelevant world building; and character development that (I feel) should’ve happened sooner in the series. And to top it all off – as someone sensitive to such topics and forms of exclusive writing styles, a blatantly weakened female presence.

Let’s start with the action – there is none. Oh yes, lots of political movement, spying and the odd ‘Specials’ class for the Blackguard inductees. But, for the most part the only well-paced, pertinent action happens within the last 100 pages of this 800-page book.

I assume all the political tip toeing is set up for the next book – The Blood Mirror. Heaven forbid none of it ties in with The Blood Mirror, I’ll fucking riot. And, I’m all one for political exploration in books, just not in such bulks without anything in-between.

Don’t get me wrong, this book starts off strong. Our Blinding Knife has transformed into a weapon unrecognisable to what it had once been with a threatening promise to the world as we know it. Gavin is being spoken to by his god, but like all good anti-heroes – refuses to listen. Karris is put in charge of an international spy ring. Teia is being inducted into the Order of the Broken Eye. And Kip is on some island going insane in the best way possible.

But all this potential is ripped down by the fact that we have like five chapters from Gavin’s POV. Possible two os which focus the minimal amount of attention one can to the Blinding Knife. I know a lot of people have issues with Gavin becoming a prisoner to circumstance in this book. My issue lies in him not thinking anymore. His once brilliant mind can hardly focus on anything other than –

“Gavin’s every day had a similar rhythm. Pull. Twist. Push. Twist. Pull. Up, down, life circumscribed in ovals of work and rest and transition from one to the other”

Or –

And now, though he could call up their colour and stories and sins and attitudes if he tried, he saw each one of the drafters differently, he pushed them back, away. They became only a name and a sin to be shrived.

Illi Alexander. Gossip.

Loida Moss. Poisoner.

Tinsin. Rebellious.

Tahlia. Envy.

Bell Sparrow. Seductress.

Li-Li Solaens. Wight.

Xenia Delaen. Wight.

Myla Loros. Wight.

Pelagia Breeze. Spy.

Meghida Talor. Hatred.

Tahrith Khan. Greed.

Edna Wood. Sloth.”

And so on and so forth - 42 TIMES. Such blatant filler. Tossing in names and one worded stories of irrelevant people that will never come back up in the story. Few select names were expanded on (not counted in the 42), but only one had any insight into Gavin as a character. The fact that he isn’t whirling around in his head trying to figure out the Blinding Knife just seems so out of character, to me.

Then karris, once mighty Watch Captain White Oak – one of the greatest archers of the Blackguard. Now stripped to Lady Guile – made to wear rich dresses, powders and her hair in lavish styles. All of which hinders her at some point in the story. And, she develops maternal desires while she pines for her lost husband. Don’t misunderstand me here, I like a good female character who personifies femininity – just not when said character spent two books being expressed as the polar opposite. Plus, a strong female character should thrive in said femininity instead of being constantly thwarted by her own fucking dress. Especially seeing as Karris was trained in the most prestigious, elite fighting force in this world.

The thing that pissed me off most about Karris in this book is the act of excusing her rape. I’m not going to quote it because I’m lazy af and it just isn’t fucking worth repeating. But the book spent a chapter with Karris excusing her rape for something she ‘needed’ or something that was the ‘best’ alternative. Obviously, rape is such a sensitive topic and to have a character as strong as Karris raped was a star in the night. A role model for other victims. But having her preform a 180 degree turn, expressing that her rape was ‘deserved’ in some form is an absolute blotch in this book.

The we have Teia, the Blackguard inductee – former slave whose previous status has always been concerning. Trained by previous owners to be violent, sneaky and simply put – morally grey. Teia falls apart at the slightest challenge. She’s too busy thinking of the suddenly thin so therefore more attractive Kip. Or being used and abused by powers above her. Both Karris and Teia – the strongest and only female characters in this series are belittled to nothing but pawns and love interests.

Finally, Kip. He showed the most promise and, if I’m being honest he’s the only characters I feel stood up to his potential. There were a few set-backs, I won’t lie –

“He [Kip] wanted her [Teia] to be free, but he’d still wanter her to owe him, to be eternally grateful, to be somehow therefore subordinate. He wanted her to be free, but he wanted to decide for her how she should use her freedom.”

I know. -Vomits-. The only issues I have with his character is his association with females. He can’t even look at one without falling in love with them and subsequently reverting back to his patterns of self-hatred. On one hand, it’s endearing, to see him struggle with his own image, on the other hand – this struggle is undermined by every character and their mother gushing over his sudden weight-loss/ muscle gain.

There’s points in this book where you learn about the way a city or satrapy used to be 16 years (or more) ago. Zero relevance to the story. Or watch a member of the Order carrying out a routine assassination that again, has zero relevance to the story-line. Chapters with one-off POVs that bring no new information. Character simply talking for talking’s sake or worse – creating tension for tensions sake. All of which could’ve been summed up in a five-sentence paragraph so the story could focus on better stuff. Or, you know, move on with it!

So why not give it a one star rating, you ask? Well, if Blood Mirror disappoints I will be. But, first reason – Kip.

From our weak willed, sheepish boy from Rekton. To a young man stading up to Andross Guile in front of the whole Spectrum. His words become more assured, his lies come quicker; easier. And he develops his resourcefulness to creating and thinking up new ways to incorporate luxin. His own POV carries the type of thought processes I’d expect, and have seen, from Gavin.

“He was hitting the damned thing as hard as he could.

No, he was hitting as hard as he could muscularly. Magically, he should be able to hit harder.

[…] He remembered the wights in Garriston, leapfrogging from roof to roof, shooting luxin downward as they jumped, using the kick to extend their jump. It was the same concept that worked for Gavin’s skimmers and sea chariots. But bother of those interacted more externally. They didn’t have to, did they.

[…] Here goes nothing. He stood with his right foot back, twisted, snapped, and as his right foot came up, he shot green luxin out of it.”

Safe to say, Kip’s developing some of Gavin’s magically focused experimental yearnings. Throughout the book, he talks well beyond his years, offering advice and orders, talking strategy.

The only saving grace for the female characters – both Karris and Teia, is that they at least lock into challenging positions of power by the end of the book. Hopefully that means their futures promise badassery and strength.

The last one hundred pages are the greatest. Full of musket firing, experimental luxin, escapes, deaths, sabotage, hexed, and plot twists. The last one hundred pages feel more like the first two books. Quick paced and constantly moving. The characters don’t rot their personalities like they did during the books idle inaction. Information and developments in those last pages promise a fantastic story in Bloor Mirror.

I go forth excited, but wary.

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