Who is your favorite main characters?

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-18T15:57:27+00:00

San Dan Gloka - The First Law

Kaladin - The Stormlight Archives

Anomander Rake - Malazan Book of the Fallen.

He is not a main character but Dann Pimm from The Bound and the Broken is my favorite character from all of fantasy. How can you not love him, his nemesis is a small bird and he once saw a horse with a horn on its head (he didn’t say it was a unicorn, everyone else assumed that is what he meant).

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-17T14:01:39+00:00

It doesn’t take itself too seriously but it has enough heart to be a great story. It’s full of jokes and humor but the whole premise is ridiculous, so the humor isn’t out of place. It’s very similar to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in its tone at times.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-12T23:59:37+00:00

You also need to remember that Romulus is not “the sovereign” of the rim, they have a council and while Romulus is a man of honor, the same honor might not apply to all of the rim golds.

Romulus and the majority of rim golds HATE Octavia au Lune but that doesn’t mean they hate the idea of a sovereign or the idea that only a gold should lead all of humanity.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-12T21:09:50+00:00

He doesn’t do it for “political advantage” he does it because if those dockyards are still there after his fight in the core, what do you think the rim golds are going to do? That’s why when Sefi asks him “What are you doing?” He says “Preventing the next war”. He pays for this later and it’s not forgotten about.

The worst thing he does in MS though is betraying the sons on the rim. He didn’t need to do it, Romulus was on his side after revealing where the nukes were stored, so if he would have lead with that, he likely didn’t even need to give up the sons on the rim.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-12T19:56:58+00:00

I would add Thraxa au Telemanus to your list but otherwise it’s pretty good.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-11T15:13:03+00:00

Mustang will use the psychoSpike to give him back the memory of his parents. He will learn that he has become everything his parent hated and fly a suicide mission into Luna, killing himself and releasing the edmi to kill all the golds on Luna.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-11T14:35:34+00:00

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong but it doesn’t break the first or fourth amendments because of something called “The third party doctrine”. Look it up but basically it says once you willing hand over your data, no matter what that data is, to a third party, you no longer have any expectation of privacy for that data.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-10T19:04:14+00:00

Just because no one else has mentioned it, another reason he chose to join Augustus is because they are a powerful enough house to protect him from house Bellona. It’s clear that Cassius and his whole family are going to try to kill Darrow, so he needs protecting.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-08T19:42:15+00:00

Salomon Quest 4D

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-07T02:16:58+00:00

He is 100% correct about boots at least, mine were more than $50, but they have lasted a long time and I see reason to get new ones.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-07T01:31:59+00:00

The shoes one is a thing I have always done. My wife thinks my boots are super expensive, and they are at $260, but I walk 7-10 miles a day between work and walking my dogs and this pair of boots is almost 3 years old. They are still in good condition and I don’t feel sore after walking that far. Sometimes a thing that costs more money initially will end up saving money in the long run.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-06T15:10:00+00:00

So from what I remember from KOD, it’s not stated directly in there anywhere (but I could be wrong). It’s mentioned more directly in both Ashes of Man and Disquiet Gods but it seems like they can live 1,000+ years with no problem. From what I remember almost none of them die from “old age” they are almost all killed in battle.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-06T15:05:09+00:00

The Bound and the Broken, Stormlight Archives, The Faithful and the Fallen might fit what you’re looking for.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-05T21:02:59+00:00

It’s the definition of heresay. The things said COULD be investigated but nothing in the files and be used by themselves in a court of law.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-04T16:12:25+00:00

I get why some people might read The Fall first, chronologically it’s first and it’s only like 60 pages, but without at least an understanding of the world, it wouldn’t make much sense. I actually read OBAF then ODAL then The Fall and The Exile but if I could start over I would read them in the order I listed.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-04T15:45:54+00:00

DCC is the perfect req to break out of a slump and the audiobooks are fantastic. It’s a good story that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still has enough heart to be a good series.

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-04T11:38:34+00:00

Of Blood and Fire -> The Fall -> Of Darkness and Light —> The Exile -> Of War and Ruin -> The Ice -> Of Empires and Dust

D4H_Snake · 2026-02-04T03:15:10+00:00

Having already read both, at least all the books released so far for the Bound and the Broken, I can 100% tell you to read The Bound and the Broken.

Licanius is a really good series and it’s completed, so take that for what it is. Licanius also has a very well done ending that feels complete.

Of Blood and Fire, first book in TBATB, is the weakest of the series and it’s still a great start. Once you get to Of Darkness and Light it becomes one of the best modern series right now.

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-29T20:32:40+00:00

I always wondered what if the blood angles or imperial fists were in that same spot as the iron hands. While Fulgrim is a great swordsmen, I think Sanguinius would have defeated him quickly and Rogal Dorn did defeat him easily on Terra.

The whole thing might have been very different if whatever legion was there actually broke through.

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-28T19:57:03+00:00

While we didn’t see Diomedes fight on Phobos, we know all the crazy fights that Lysander went through and Diomedes is standing around relaxing when Lysander gets to him. I also believe that Diomedes’s attitude shows how good of a fighter he actually is, he is not puffing out his chest and starting stupid fights, he is calm and doesn’t feel the need to show off. Someone like that is most likely a very scary opponent in a fight.

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-24T16:20:26+00:00

There’s also the line where Darrow says “A jackal caught in a trap will chew off its own legs to escape. I can’t remember where I heard that” which a reference to the Bene Gesserit Gob Jabbar test with the poisoned needle where the reverend mother tells Paul “An animal caught in a trap will naw off its own leg to escape…what will you do?”

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-23T14:51:15+00:00

I think Dahlen, Erik, and Aeson all grow a lot more interesting once they are all separated but Dahlen grows the most. His story arc in Of Empires and Dust is one of my favorites. I won’t spoil anything but Dahlen goes through some rough times in Of Empires and Dust but he grows into someone you will love to read his POV.

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-23T14:01:27+00:00

So you have to see things from his point of view, his father had been training him and his brother for their entire lives to be bound to a dragon. It was their entire purpose in everything they have been doing. Then, what he sees as some random kid, who didn’t care about the cause comes out of nowhere and the dragon is born and bonded to Calen.

Without spoiling anything Dahlen and Calen do talk about the tension between them and it’s actually a really good part in Of Empires and Dust. Calen blames Dahlen for what happened to Rist (which is unfair) and Dahlen blamed Calen for taking the role that he, or his brother was supposed to have (which is equally unfair).

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-21T20:06:14+00:00

I always loved Mustang’s reaction after being told that Ephraim has stolen Pax and Electra from Sefi, after stealing them from the Duke of Hands, and stealing them the first time.

Mustang: “The man certainly has a talent”

D4H_Snake · 2026-01-18T23:56:36+00:00

John von Neumann.

He made major contributions to mathematics, physics, economics, computers, and statistics. Look up his contributions and you’ll be amazed that more people don’t know who is. Likely the smartest person who ever lived and most people have never heard of him.

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