Does anyone else wonder what the political fallout/reaction to the attempted assassination of Touchstone and Sabriel in Ancelstierre was? Especially before it was revealed to have failed in killing their targets?

I got invited to play a Curse of Strahd DnD campaign and I thought it would be fun to play as an Abhorsen. Most of my DnD experience is from Actual Plays, so I'm not sure what character build would work. Easy answer seems like a Grave Domain cleric, but a friend said that's probably what she was gonna roll with. Bard, maybe? But while that gets the bells part down, it doesn't feel very necromantic/anti-necromantic. How have y'all built an Abhorsen in DnD?

The Broken Social Scene song reminds me of Sabriel every time I hear it. Does anyone relate?

Moving into a new apartment, anyone have any creative old kingdom/Abhorsen WiFi names?

So, I read and loved the original trilogy as a young adult, and recently realized Nix had written more, so I'm working my way through everything I missed.

I just got to the part in Goldenhand where Sabriel says she believes the Empty Lands north of the Great Rift is the remains of the last world Orannis succeded in destroying.

Combined with a half remembered bit from Abhorsen where I recall that Orannis had to get his halves recombined "somewhere he had not previously existed"... namely south of The Wall, combined with how The Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre might as well be different worlds with how they have different rules of physics...

Are the different Worlds in the Old Kingdom Series laid out like frames on a strip of film? If you travelled far enough south through Ancelstierre, would you eventually reach another massive barrier, south of which is yet another world with it's own rules different from both Ancelstierre and it's 1900's tech and the Old Kingdom and it's Magic? Steampunk World maybe?

Hey y'all - this is an odd question.

I'm cleaning out my book collection (gasp!), and one of the books that's gonna go is the BIG chronicles book. Picture of the big Chronicles book.... UPC is 9780061441820

My ? is: should I put it up for grabs here (where I know it will be appreciated by someone), or just try general luck with neighborhood "free little libraries" {shudders, cause it's rainy season where I live now} or stuff of that sort? [Obvs FB, bookstores, etc.]

I just want it to go to a good home. [Trying to downsize my life, and some of my books gotta go :'(

TYIA!!!

Guys I love the old kingdom Series. It is one of the very few fantasy series that has managed to captivate my mind completely. I love it as much as the lord of the rings and its telling because I've been a fan of lotr since I was seven years old. But the old kingdom series just something else entirely, it hit the same during every re-read, the descriptions are so tangible an vivid its almost like that I can feel the chill of the death while reading some passages from the books, power of the bells, its like my death sence is piqued whenever I open an old kingdom book, its so akin to opening the book of the dead. Does anyone else feel like this?

The Charter is a working of the Seven and the world of the Old Kingdom has been defined by that creation throughout it's history. But now the eighth is free from bondage and even the ninth shiner has inadverently created an inheritor of its power. Do the rules change? Does the Kingdom become wilder

Do you think that Sam could >!even open the book of the dead? Seeing as you need innate talent for necromancy to do so?!<

a female protagonist with a rage problem is fun. the anti-social tendencies are giving. she doesn’t give two shits about the wheelin and dealing. she just wants to be in the damn woods by her damn self.

i’m only a bit of the way in. so no spoilers please.

why couldn’t they just leave her alone? WHY?

Garth Nix hid a clever and brutal charter spell in Goldenhand. Avoiding spoilers, a fishing village is put at risk and they are taking stock of their weapons, tools, and skills. An Archer mentions they have a few charter spelled arrows, with marks to "cut, unravel, and flense"

I had to look up "flense". It is both terrifying and appropriate for a fishing villager: it means to slice the skin or fat from a carcass, especially a whale.

Goddamn Mr. Nix, you brushed past that real quick 👀👀

Listening to Clariel, 600 year before Sabriel, Tea has just been introduced from "far away" and become very fashionable. There is a bamboo ladder casually mentioned. Also, "exotic" fish from far away are discussed. Also, a lot of spices are described in multiple of the books that in our world come from largely tropical or near tropical islands and climates.

My question is: where do they get all this? It seems unlikely to be trade across the wall, as that kind of volume to come from Ancelstierre's broader world, then make its way all the way to the wall and successfully cross the boarder lands consistently...

Is there successful trade with as yet in mentioned islands to the east and west of the one landmass we're aware of? The northern steppes or the great forest don't sound like the right areas to get tea or bamboo or fun spices. Maybe put past the Northwest desert? I haven't gotten to Goldenhand yet so maybe I'll learn more there 🤷

I've always been fascinated by the Scouts. The books indicated that they're self-taught and even the best of them are not very powerful etc. I'm wondering how that works given that clearly someone baptised them at some point.

Clearly they enspelled their own swords etc but are they all completely self-taught or would someone magical from the Old Kingdom have come and run a masterclass with them?

In to Hold the Bridge, we get a glimpse of self-taught mages within the Old Kingdom so I realise it's possible to be 'entirely self taught' but I am very curious about how it all works and not just because Francis Tindall is my favourite non main character :D

I just started the Sabriel audiobook for the first time this week and it’s such a completely unique experience. It’s heightening my enjoyment of the story so much (and I already love it enough that I’m planning to get a tattoo). I don’t normally go for audiobooks, but it was only when I found out in this subreddit that it’s read by Tim Curry I decided to try it out and it’s brilliant. Anyone else who’s not into audiobooks, please do give it a shot. Tim Curry just makes it.

Would modern cities with sewers and water pipes everywhere be accidentally remarkably safe from The Dead (and weak free magic beings)? The aqueducts in Belisaere work wonders apparently, so I don't see why all our pipes wouldn't work for us!

Even individual houses/apartments have water pipes everywhere. So if The Dead get in, just turn on all your faucets and the shower! 😁

This is the material described as being used for several blades described in this series. One in particular I remember off the top of my head are the librarian's daggers. I've tried asking Google and haven't gotten anywhere.

Re-listening to Lirael. The Disreputable Dog offhandedly tells Lirael that the Clayr Observatory guard have amongst their magical weapons a Charter-spelled Axe. There's a future-seeing warrior woman guarding an Old Kingdom Observatory with an Enchanted Battle-Axe. That's Metal 🤘

Sabriel is my all-time favourite novel and The Old Kingdom is my favourite series, but I've somehow never gotten around to giving the audiobook a go! After seeing the post here about it a couple of days ago, I decided to check it out.

It's wonderful and Tim Curry has done an (unsurprisingly) incredible job telling this story. I'm so glad that he was hired for this audiobook!

Despite reading about it in the other post, I was NOT prepared for Jacinth's "BUNNEH". It made me laugh so much that I also made my partner listen to it several times haha.

HOWEVER. I'm autistic with ADHD and am a big vocal stimmer; a huge part of this vocal stimming is echolalia.

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I've been "BUNNEH"-ing repeatedly, loudly and in full Tim Curry mode for the last 24 hours. At home? BUNNEH. On a train? BUNNEH. In a café? BUNNEH. At the shop? BUNNEH OUT OF NOWHERE. I can't see it stopping any time soon, since my echolalia words/phrases can last a really long time.

If any of you are in Scotland and hear a "BUNNEH" in the wild, it's just me.

i read this series when i was in middle school, now in my mid 30’s. reread a few times over the course of the years. decided to give the audiobook a try while commuting with my partner.

YALL.

TIM CURRY????

i did not knowwwwww.

that is all. thank you for your time.

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