#tempests and slaughter

[moderatelyprosperouspeasant]

I completed my Tortall book collection!! :D

I’m not really picky about book condition, so these are all used (I got all but three of them on Ebay) and many of them have library markings on/in them etc. The only thing I’m really peeved about is the sticker damage on the Trickster spines, since that’s the only part that’s really visible when they’re shelved. (Dear used book sellers, if you could please place stickers in less conspicuous places and stop placing them on pAPER SURFACES I would hold so much more peace in my heart.)

I had mentally prepared myself for the poster that’s advertised with Tempests and Slaughter to have been removed by a previous owner, but to my shock and delight it’s STILL IN THERE??? I never knew what the poster was, now that I know what it says I will surely be displaying it above these books :) ideally it will be displayed alongside the map that I’ve been meaning to get from Dual Wield Studio!

Other than getting my favorite editions of the whole series, I ended up getting extra copies of The First Adventure and In the Hand of the Goddess because I found copies of the gorgeous 2002 edition for really cheap! The other two books are more rare and expensive on Ebay, perhaps I’ll invest in copies one day, or get lucky. I’m super super pleased with these, other than some glue residue on one cover, they so far appear to be in GORGEOUS condition. The pages are so crisp and beautiful and AHHH I just think this artwork suits the series so well! I’m also super fond of small books, but these are hardcovers so they are in far better condition than the paperbacks I got. I also saw Immortals copies that matched these, they are beautiful but generally expensive.

There are other beautiful editions that I would love to invest in just to have them, though my apartment is tiny and I do not need more belongings lol…now that I’ve collected all of these, though, I should really prioritize reading the Circle of Magic series. I’ve been too attached to Tortall to think of exploring a different world of hers, but Tamora is my idol so I’ve really gotta buck up and immerse myself in that world.

#tamora pierce #tortall #song of the lioness #alanna the lioness #the immortals quartet #veralidaine sarrasri #protector of the small #keladry of mindelan #alianne cooper #beka cooper #numair salmalin #arram draper #tempests and slaughter #book collection #tortall universe

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Ok, I was relistening to the Emperor Mage audiobook the other day, and holy cow can we talk about Varice Kingsford for a second. Our girl is immensely consistent from Tempests and Slaughter to Emperor Mage that all she wants is to use her gift to make things pretty and use that to smooth diplomatic paths, and there are the seeds of her being...I don't even know how to describe it properly, under Ozorne's power? Ozorne's lackey? In Ozorne's corner? But when it came to the part in Emperor Mage where Daine is wrecking the palace and runs into Varice, the absolute soul-baring honesty of responding to "Did you betray Numair to Ozorne?" with "No, but I might have if I'd been specifically asked to" just hits so hard.

Varice just wanted to plan parties and play house, and literally none of the men in her life accepted that. They kept pushing and pushing and so she ended up in Ozorne's court, watching one childhood friend murder their mutual childhood friend and her lover. That situation will never not be hideously messed up, but the tragedy is how clearly Varice can see the dynamics in her own relationships.

Just let the kitchen witch do kitchen witchy things that make her happy!!!

#tamora pierce #tortall #tortall universe #emperor mage #tempests and slaughter #veralidaine sarrasri #varice kingsford #arram draper #numair salmalin #ozorne

[mihrsuri]

I am going to go lay down and sob now. (Also I think that third highlight remains true - genuinely it’s just the person doing harm is Ozorne and he cannot see it).

#book: tamora pierce #tempests and slaughter #listen THE PAIN #you can see the beginnings of the fractures here which is painful

[dr-dendritic-trees]

@peach-turnover I think you have it absolutely right. I don't like the romance arc, but I started with the Kel books so I knew it was coming. And its so clunky and so goddamn boring, but that's honestly most of the book.

It was kind of interesting, I'm listening to the audiobooks so there was an interview with Tammy at the end and she actually said that she'd originally plotted Immortals as a trilogy, but because she was operating under quite strict word-count limits so if she wanted to cover both the Emperor Mage stuff, and the Stuff with Daine's family she needed an extra book.

And really, that Explains A Lot! Like, the actual scenes where Daine is getting closure with her family are really interesting and good, and the final fight with Ozorne is really where those two needed to end (I'll probably make a separate post about that) but literally everything else is such a drag. And so much of it really seems to be there to take up space, especially all the divine stuff with the Chaos Goddess and the Sorrows and etc, its never been mentioned in the preceding 7 books and its never mentioned again and Just Don't Care about any of it. Similarly, the mage Numair spends the whole final battle dealing with is barely even a character, he's just a walking excuse to get Numair out of the way so we don't ask why he isn't the one fighting Ozorne. The Dragon Kingdom being separate but adjacent to the Divine Realms is honestly cool, but again, it comes from nowhere and is never discussed again.

But its pretty easy to imagine that if Emperor Mage was allowed to be a bit longer you could easily fit Daine's talking to her Ma in when she visits the Divine Realms in Emperor Mage, and you could extend the ending to cover Daine finishing Ozorne off AND THEN you could finish on her last scene with Kaddar, which is one of the best single sequences in all 3 quartets, instead of the frankly dull ending of Realms.

#the realms of the gods #tempests and slaughter #emperor mage #immortals #tortall

[whimsicallywiddershins]

Can we please talk about when Numair read a book by Rosto Cooper in Tempests and Slaughter! Beka and Farmer named their son after Rosto. Oh my god that's adorable. He never was romantically involved with Beka but their friendship stayed strong despite that.

#tamora pierce #beka cooper #tempests and slaughter #rosto the piper #farmer cooper #rosto cooper #terrier #mastiff

[themysticaljellyfish]

[Tristan] nudged Arram with his foot. “Come on, Stork Boy, aren’t you excited?”

Shut up, Tree Man.

#tempests and slaughter #numair salmalin #tortall #tamora pierce #every time Tristan does or says something mean in this book #i just remember that he is a future tree

[tintededges]

Tempests and Slaughter

Prequel to Tamora Pierce’s fantasy series “Immortals” Content warning: slavery I was an avid reader of this author’s books when I was young, especially the “Song of the Lioness” and “The Immortals“. A few years ago I was interested to see that a new prequel series for “The Immortals”, but I hadn’t gotten around to reading it. My fantasy book club is full of Tamora Pierce fans (in fact, one of…

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#book reviews #books #eBooks #fantasy #Tamora Pierce #Tempests and Slaughter #The Immortals #The Numair Chronicles

[magpiesbones]

dips apate minor has the same vibe as the theoretical threesome Arram Ozorne and Varice would have. Ozorne is God, of course.

#Locked tomb #tempests and slaughter #You know when you and your two besties who are the only people who could hope to understand you have a threesome? Yeah #Mutually destructive as HELL which is another thing

[disasterpurplebois]

Finally starting Tempests and Slaughter as my plane read and I’m getting very strong Blumendrei vibes from it 👀👀

#tempests and slaughter #tamora pierce

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

I've been chewing on what fears the bg3 characters would be because I do that with almost every piece of media I like now.

Gale is the Beholding (hubris, pursuit of knowledge above all else, his ex can literally see everything he does in/with the Weave). You could make an argument for Desolation b/c of the orb but I think that's secondary. Wyll is the Hunt imo, but the Desolation works for him too- I think his situation is similar to that Hunter we meet whose name I'm forgetting, whose inciting incident has to do with the Dark. I thought the same thing about Karlach but I think she's Desolation instead of Hunt, both aesthetically and because she was actively betrayed and is, you know, dying. Shadowheart is the Dark. Halsin could honestly be the Lonely: he's pretty isolated from the people around him emotionally. An island unto himself etc etc. Lae'zel is the End imo. You'd think she'd be Hunt but End fits into Vlaakith's whole deal (victim of the End, avatar of the Hunt?). Astarion could be either the Buried (since that covers abuse as well, he was literally kept underground/out of the sunlight, etc etc) or the Hunt. I'm a bit undecided there. I don't know enough about Minthara to make a call on her and I don't want to just say Web because of Lolth. Slaughter, maybe? Since that fear covers war. Jaheira and Minsc are Hunt too, I think (there's a lot of Hunt but that comes with the territory when you're adventuring).

Gortash is Web and you cannot convince me otherwise. I think Orin is Slaughter but, honestly, Durge seems more associated with the Extinction to me because of Bhaal's end goal. The Desolation and the Lonely tag-teamed Ketheric's ass but he's an avatar of the End. Dame Aylin is an avatar of the Hunt, victim of the Dark, and Isobel is an avatar of the End a la the main End avatar we see (Oliver? I really need to re-listen...)

There's obviously a lot of overlap and bleed because there always is. I've been wanting to make art based off of this but it's not happening anytime soon so I figured I'd shout about it into the void a bit lol

#as far as tavs go: #dora is probably hunt? unclear #peri's stranger #corentin specifically is slaughter even though i know i said durge was extinction #candor is web tbh but a victim of the vast #io is...none? honestly? they were just a Normal Person before pre-tadpole #luka's end obviously #undecided about solace. theyre a victim of/marked by slaughter & desolation even though theyre a tempest cleric #buried? perhaps? im chewing on beholding for them too b/c of reasons i cant quite articulate rn #anyway #my post #jay rambles #bg3 #bg3 companions #bg3 characters #the magnus archives #tma #i dont think orins stranger despite being a changeling because that just enhances her killing #like. nicola's pretty damn murderous too but that's just bc she is #while orin uses her shapeshifting as a tool to kill *better* #idk if that makes sense #dribbles is stranger though (the real one AND the doppleganger. dont trust clowns kids)

[the-fab-fox]

Anyone else go through like all the stages of grief when you just finish reading (or listening to the audio book for all the book listeners out there) and like it's just

And it's worse when it's a series and the next book is not our yet.

And it won't be out until fall NEXT year and it's just you want to know what happens next but no

You get to wait. Like yes I'm so glad more is coming but does it have to be so long away?

I feel like the only people other than us that could truly get what I mean is the Sherlock fandom. They had to wait for years and only for like what was it, three episodes a season.

But I digress.

Oh and if anyone is curious the book I'm now waiting on is the second in the Numair Chronicles by Tamora Pierce. From what I can see online it's called The Exile's Gift. I got so spoiled when I first discovered her because she already had three quartets in one universe (Tortall books so SotL, the Immortas, and PotS) and had already had the first quartet of The Circle of Magic books. I think I was in tenth or eleventh grade when Melting Stones came out and then Shatterglass. So basically so many of her books already were published. With HP (at the time I was obsessed) I was used to waiting. But not with Tammy. Not that I'm ungrateful mind. Just so freaking excited to learn more about Numair and Ozorne and Varice.

Like I like Varice a lot and obviously in Daine's books we aren't supposed to like her for obvious reasons but like. It's good to see this side of her and all.

#audiobook #audiobooks #tamora pierce #tempest and slaughter #numair salmalin #numair chronicles #the exile's gift #sherlock fandom #bbc sherlock

[dykeredhood]

IDK why anyone ever bothers to write a high school AU when Hercules: the Animated Series (1998) already exists

#never understood the appeal of a high school AU to begin with… #ooh let’s take these flavorful characters but strip away their magic powers/things being set in SPACE and give them insignificant drama #when Herc & his school friends are taking a tour of the olive factory hosted by Pimtentocles… #Icarus: ooooooooh you’re scared of the pimentos… a thousand little red eyes that never blink #the cop is named CHIPacles ffs it’s brilliant #Herc: hey Tempest (his Amazon classmate)… wanna go out for lunch sometime? #Tempest: I only eat what I’ve slaughtered with my bare hands 😤 #Herc: …we’ll go dutch #Hercules #Disney’s Hercules #Hercules TAS #Hercules the animated series #personal #rant in tags

[checkoutmybookshelf]

I appreciate that Tempests and Slaughter spends so much time deconstructing the prejudices and classism that are inherent to higher education power structures, because this is just startlingly accurate to universities gatekeeping knowledge and ways of knowing.

#tamora pierce #tempests and slaughter #tortall universe #tortall #carthak #numair salmalin #arram draper #ozorne #varice #ya fantasy #books & libraries #books and reading #books and novels #book recommendations #books

[mihrsuri]

I am taking an invitation to talk about my Numair and Onua and Numair and Jon friendship feelings and like OBVIOUSLY. Thank you @naurielrochnur

Numair and Onua are both fleeing abusive relationships you will not be changing my mind. They may in fact, recognise that in each other. (“Who gave you bruises?” Onua asks early on, when they’ve just met each other and Numair doesn’t start at it because, because it matters that she knows. “A man who I loved” he says and it’s true - he had loved Ozorne and Varice and then Ozorne had wanted to wrap him in chains and take him to bed)

They help each other with the nightmares and the flashbacks (listen post the beginning of Wild Magic Numair absolutely had renewed nightmares he was in a dungeon and being sent back to Ozorne (I don’t believe Ozorne was going to kill him, I think Ozorne wanted him back in his bed).

Jon has the shadow of a powerful charming mage who nearly killed him and killed so many people he loved. Jon absolutely has nightmares about Roger (I have some feelings about Roger and his creepiness towards Jon but that’s more like vibes in my brain).

Arram/Numair is thee most powerful mage ever but also he juggles. And gets distracted by a Cool Theory. Will patiently heal animals and is wonderful with small children (Jon finds him in the Dancing Dove one day, surrounded by small children he is entertaining and something in him settles and he thinks ‘roger would never’)

Numair has powerful mage ruler trauma. But Jon is not Ozorne - once he hears Gary or Raoul or Alanna calling Jon out on something and…he admits he was wrong and they are still friends! And that, that starts the trust journey!

Thayet is actually the final piece, for both Jon and Numair. Thayet and Roald and Kally.

#lil and her ridiculous aus #fic #book: tamora pierce #tempests and slaughter

[dr-dendritic-trees]

There are 2 wolves within me and one wants to write an emotionally meaningful scene about reunions in drastically changed circumstances, and the other just basically wants to share all the facts I found in the bearded vulture husbandry manual.

#tempests and slaughter #the thing with feathers #also bearded vultures are very fluffy and i really want to snuggle one #which is not a thing i can do in real life

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

“I met him once, you know,” Numair says, and Thom freezes. “Duke Roger, I mean.” “When?” Thom demands. Roger had left Carthak nearly twenty years ago, after Alanna saved King Jonathan from the Sweating Sickness. Numair had gone to Carthak young, yes, but surely not so young as that. “Right after I arrived,” Numair says. “I suppose he heard about the youngest student ever admitted to the University and wanted to see for himself what I was made of.” He shrugs, far too casual for a man admitting to having met the most dangerous sorcerer in the world as a child. “It was only the one meeting, so apparently he wasn’t impressed.” For a moment, Thom is caught between two competing emotions: relief, that Roger left Numair alone and a deeply nonsensical anger, that Roger dismissed Numair so quickly.

And bam, I am broadsided by an entirely new AU idea. For the love of God, brain, slow down with the AUs.

But imagine Roger showing up with bby!Arram in tow and Arram growing up and slowly realizing that his teacher/adopted dad might not be on the up and up. And then everything goes to hell when Alanna kills Roger and then everything somehow gets even worse when Thom brings him back.

#thoughts from the fire escape #tortall #don't at me about tempest and slaughter #i'm a fake fan and didn't read it