#the old kingdom trilogy

[cinno2]

beginning stages of a storyboard i have planned for abhorsen. the lirael/hedge fight sits in the back of my mind at all times

#abhorsen #lirael #the old kingdom #the old kingdom trilogy #sabriel #storyboard #garth nix

[mudinyourshoes]

I will say, the Abhorsen trilogy does have the best take on magical animal companions ever done. Like, they have they're own agendas, personal histories and conflicts. Their motives are often complex, obscure, and subject to change. Do they want to help you? Possibly. Are you dependent on their help? Definitely. But they are also surely using you, their human companion and supposed master, for their own purposes. And every once and while one of them makes a serious attempt at killing you or your friends...

#abhorsen #the old kingdom trilogy #Liriel #sabriel

[skydalorian]

Still trying to get Lirael down!

#lirael #the old kingdom #the old kingdom trilogy #garth nix #abhorsen #abhorsen series #sabriel #the old kingdom series #my art #myart

[tanoraqui]

damn right I’m rereading the Old Kingdom trilogy now. Highlights from the epilogue:

I love that he says this just after obviously raising his baby from the dead, and that while they very rarely do it, Abhorsens ARE allowed little a overt standard necromancy as a treat

New dad!Abhorsen Terciel my beloved ❤️

#the old kingdom #Abhorsen trilogy

[nimuetheseawitch]

Another reason why I love the Abhorsen Trilogy: all the young women are competent individuals who know they have limits and think they've reached them but then find the strength to push past them, while the only male POV character is a whiny privileged teenager who seriously fucks up before realizing his own strengths and valuing what he's good at (which, surprise, is not what anyone expected him to be good at).

#abhorsen #abhorsen trilogy #the old kingdom #sabriel #lireal

[snailwitdamail2]

calling it now. the new apes trilogy is gonna have an ape/human kiss like the og movie did.

#uhhhh AUBGAJSHDAHSAKB #maybe not on the lips like taylor and zira but #like a platonic cheek kiss at least. im calling it idc #pota #planet of the apes #kingdom of the planet of the apes #shut up snail #look. listen. we've already got references for other og apes stuff in the caesar trilogy #the names for nova and cornelius. the spaceship easter egg in Rise. the “no!” scene #uhhh caesar is doing a statue of liberty puzzle thingy in Rise #bright eyes!!! #i know theres gotta be more. my mind is blanking rn. #does. does that one track in Dawn with the xylophones count ASDGIAUSD #i forget what the track is called. but its the one where koba and his dudes go to check out what the humans are doing? the first time aroun #i think #theres some old timey sounding instruments and xylophones that soundl like it came from the og movie #i KNOW theres more refs im just tired and havent seen War in a while #my freaking blu ray player stopped working when i was watching Dawn a month or two ago LOLLL #Dawn is still stuck in there... </3 #uhhh yeah anyways #rewatched War several times after i made this post and #for references in War to the ogs. we got those cross thingies

[utilitycaster]

I've alluded to this before but one of the possible stories I could see happening for Campaign 3 is essentially the story from the Old Kingdom books by Garth Nix, aka one of my formative fantasy series. The basic gist of the story (spoilers for a 20 year old book) told in the original trilogy is that an ancient evil, sealed behind a number of wards by seven of the powerful creators of the world (it was the 9th creator; the 8th abstained) is unearthed, and the agents doing this spark unrest and war (sound familiar?). Those seven creators were largely put into the system of magic and no longer exist as independent entities, with a couple exceptions. Ultimately, people acting as the avatars of six of those creators; the remnant of the seventh; and the remnant of the eighth who had originally not participated are able to seal it once more.

While this definitely has, as I mentioned above, plenty of parallels to Campaign 3 the part that actually made me connect the dots (since, let's be real, this is the plot to a whole lot of epic fantasy) is the concept of avatars of long-dormant or dead powers reenacting an ancient rite of sealing. Ashton and whoever wields the spark of Rau'shan will stand for those titans, who once sealed Predathos; and I wonder if the Raven Queen (who post-dates the original sealing; her predecessor was presumably present) and the Luxon (not mentioned) will have a role to play this time.

#ALSO. if you're looking for a radioactivity metaphor in fantasy fiction HERE'S YOUR METAPHOR (free magic) #(i'm hesitant to recommend the old kingdom in that it is GREAT but it is technically YA and i always get irritated when people rec YA to me #but i read this as an actual teenager and own the trilogy and also it is pleasingly dark and does NOT coddle teen readers #critical role

[necromycologist]

any other oldkingdom posters out there. whacking through the bushes HELLOOOO TALK TO ME ABOUT THE SILLIES

#old kingdom #sabriel #lirael #abhorsen #abhorsen trilogy #just throwing tags at this. im fucking starving 😩

[genuaryficrecs]

Title: The Asylum, and Other Things That Won’t Stay Buried by @there-must-be-a-lock

Length: 1/1 Chapter, 2,124 Words

Rating: Teen

Fandom: DC, Old Kingdom Trilogy

Main Character(s): Tim Drake, Jason Todd

Link to Fic

Short Summary:

The air is getting colder, and Tim shivers. He must’ve walked miles by now. If he’s correct, he’s under the river, somewhere near the Arkham site. 

What you like about the fic!

Incredibly clever fusion fic, really leans into the oddly specific spookiness of Nix’s universe but adds in DC people and places in a way that flows beautifully together

Fave Quote:

He comes to a fork in the tunnel. To the left, a clear, well-built passageway; to the right, it looks like a dead end, collapsed long ago, likely by the Quake. But when Tim’s robin flies closer, he can see the strange oily shimmer of magic across the ruins — some sort of illusion blocking the path. 

He probes at it with a little hum, sending his magic out to explore, and doesn’t find any traps, so he starts to make his way through the illusion. It’s a funny style of spellwork, layers upon layers of mixed-up symbols that feel more like a puzzle than a traditional illusion. Tim unravels the first layer with a quick clap and makes a mental note to see what the Riddler’s been up to. 

Beyond the last layer of the spell, he finds a strange opening that seems half man-made and half natural, but all of it partly collapsed, like a building originally set into the living stone had crumbled and been fortified…

#submission #gen fic #genuary fic rec fest #dc #old kingdom trilogy

[maskyartist]

Feel like I should give y’all a reason why I’m not really here much lately,,,,but ngl I don’t got one

Might be kinda mia for a bit ain’t too sure. Ask box’s always ops tho.

#masky says #like mm wanna make stuff. wanna do smth #but I don’t got any ideas.. #maybe I should fiddle with more explosive kingdoms stuff #or finally buckle down and watch the trilogy again #for the sake of the aus… #idk getting real in the tags for a sec- #very bad spot in life I think. i think cause m not sure. maybe this is where I’m supposed to be. #too young to matter n too old to stop yknow? #just want it all to just stop moving forward… #go back. just go back I wanna go back. but the world keeps saying no and I keep trying to pretend I don’t hear it #but I do. and I see it. how the sun rises and sets. how the moon comes and goes. #how the sky goes through an entire rainbow of colors before blanketing the world in warm darkness #we can’t just stop…it wouldn’t be fair to the world that worked so hard to make things turn like this. #but fuck if I don’t wish it’d just slow the hell down for awhile.

[bleachbleachbleach]

Once more in Library Mode--I appreciate your patience and answering all my questions very much--I am imagining how the awful mishmash of library items in the Library Space Station you mentioned works and it's a delight. The card catalog alone would be amazing, if perhaps something of a stream of consciousness after Aizen and Ukitake upended the place looking for clues. "Mission reports (Madarame and Ayasegawa)--cultivation of rice, pre-Gotei-13--soil analysis of Hueco Mundo--seed catalog (some seeds still in)." I bet they still have a card catalog. Also who do you suppose actually works in the library? Were they victims of Aizen? Is it a joint effort between Squads Nine and Twelve, and then the SRDI? Did Tousen and Aizen and Gin pretend to be librarians and give everyone the wrong answers to their reference questions on purpose? What a villainous act.

I would LOVE to watch a local news special spotlighting the stalwart work of the Gotei librarians! Like, can you imagine that interview. Can you imagine interviewing the head librarian as she explains the process of deciding what the taxonomies of knowledge are and what the map of subfields, overlapping categories, etc. are? And that's even before the interview with the head librarian emeritus, who was there when the deep magic was written?

It's not about librarians, but one of the anime series of all time is The Great Passage, which is based on a Shion Miura novel about a group of officeworkers and the ten years they spend developing a dictionary--THE dictionary. It's about the profound thoughtfulness required to ensure no word goes missing, even amidst employment changeover, the shifting needs of the publishing house, etc.--and to write definitions of things, concepts, ideas that speak to the true heart of what that thing really is. Imagine doing that for the ghost military. Imagine the kinds of things getting catalogued.

And YES to a seed catalogue with seed samples!!! A library of things!! The three- (or four, or five) dimensionality of the archive!

(lmao what if technically Muken is not a classified as a prison; it is part of the library system. It's a technicality, mostly--municipal infighting about property rights, the fact that the library and working at the library actually requires more training and expertise than working in a Gotei prison, etc., But after the Winter War, Aizen is not a prisoner; he is an archival object. And he has his own call number. There is a librarian whose entire job is to record, classify, and preserve, every memory and figment of thought they can squeeze out of him.)

#in the fourth grade our field trip to the train museum got canceled and i think this was probably a formative memory for me #i bring this devastating trauma up multiple times a year to this day #in march 2020 i was supposed to go to a seed library!! for indigenous seeds!! in oklahoma!! but then i didn't get to go for obvious reason #being that i've now been scheduled to go to oklahoma twice in my life and have still never been to oklahoma i feel like this is probably #going to be one of those formative absences of my life #seed library WHEN #asks #shinigamiology #bleach headcanons #bleach worldbuilding #no brain just bleach #i hope the gotei space station library is anything like the library of the clayr from the old kingdom trilogy by garth nix

[aahsoka]

i think like w being able to do ‘personal projects’ i am having a hard time conceptualizing a project that I want to do that is also acceptable for school and my brain rn definitely just wants to make fanart.

#i am constantly dreaming about spike btvs ok i need to draw him out of there #i also had these grand ideas of old kingdom trilogy concept art drawings #that i abandoned once the semester started #do u think i can sneak in a picture of 7 bells. #jordan talks

[maddiesbookshelves]

🌻 Sunny Reading Tag 🌻

Thank you for the tag @yourneighborhoodbibliophile

🔥 favourite book

Since I always say Le Pacte des Marchombre, I'm gonna change it up a bit and say: The Black Magician Trilogy. I need to read them again, it's been ages but they had a bit impact on me.

🌾 tropes that make you go "asfgrthgj"

I like the "opposite attract" trope but I might be biased because of my favorite ship (though I like it outside of romance too). And I like it when a villain goes good and vice versa.

🍂 comfort book

The Lightning Thief, I think. It's a quick read and I just love Percy so much, the beginning of his journey just warms my heart.

⚡ death in a book you would take back

I don't know if I actually would because all the deaths I remember served a very specific purpose in the story... Except for that death at the end of Crooked Kingdom. That one was just unnecessary. But if we're talking feelings, there are some deaths in Le Pacte des Marchombres that hit me hard every time.

🥠 book you wish you could read again for the first time

Iron Widow, just for the rush of absolute glee I felt seeing Zetian's rage and general unhinged-ness. A friend is reading it and sending me her reactions live and it's the best, I'm almost jealous of her for reading it for the first time...

Tagging @profiterole-reads, @agardenandlibrary, and @therefugeofbooks, sorry you've probably been tagged already but anyways.

#omg i had entirely forgotten about this #i found it in my drafts #ifezojgfzejgz #sunny reading tag #tag game #books #booklr #book recs #booklr community #le pacte des marchombres #the black magician trilogy #iron widow #crooked kingdom #the lightning thief #i'm so embarrassed i completely forgot i had this in my drafts #it's been WEEKS #also don't judge the state of the dust jacket on the magician's guild #that book is OLD #and had been read many a times

[skydalorian]

Will probably need to wait until sunrise to get better lighting for this, but here's the next in the Old Kingdom Portrait series, Sam!

In lieu of flowers, Sameth gets lichen as a backdrop pattern, indicative of his unique association with stone, physical handiwork and groundedness, and double-lined and curling wall imagery.

I liked the WIP without lineart, so I slapped that up there too!

As always with this series, bear with some sloppiness; this is all done with highlighters and oen/pencil on post-it notes, lol

#lirael #sabriel #abhorsen #garth nix #the old kingdom #the old kingdom trilogy #the old kingdom series #sameth #books #fanart #fan art #my art #myart

[tanoraqui]

Old Kingdom au!Fëanor wants to he Abhorsen like his father before him so bad that it makes him look stupid. He wants to be Abhorsen like his father before him so bad that he makes an entirely new set of Charter-infused necromantic bells just to prove that he can wield such powerful, important, approximately sacred tools. He manages this because he is, of course, a Wallmaker, not an Abhorsen. They do become the Abhorsen’s main set henceforth, after the originals are destroyed when Fingolfin tries to 1v1 Orannis.

Hm, actually, the relationship between divinities and people is all but inverted between these two media. I need to think about this some more.

#the old kingdom #abhorsen trilogy #the silmarillion

[nimuetheseawitch]

I'm curious as to why the Chief Librarian of the Clayr has a sword (probably made by the Wallmakers) named Binder. It's for me thinking that the Great Library of the Clayr has always been a repository for the Free Magic beings they couldn't destroy easily and could only bind. That the Library maybe used to send out teams to bind creatures and bring them back for storage (and probably stored ones bound by the Abhorsen outside of what could safely be stored under the House). That to be Chief Librarian means to be a master combat wizard (but probably meant that more in the beginning and during the Interregnum). I would love to read a story of an acquisitions team in any era of the Old Kingdom.

Additionally, who made the decisions about how to "shelve" these acquisitions? Who decided to build the rooms the Stilken was stored in, with the seven plinths and the oak tree? Was the tree a seedling when planted, or an old oak even then?

I could read entire series about just the Great Library of the Clayr.

#lirael #the great library of the clayr #abhorsen #the old kingdom #old kingdom trilogy #the clayr