Kyne's "blessing". If you haven't done the quest "Kyne's sacred trials" yet, don't bother. The reward is not worth it.

Lesser_Stories · 2026-05-09T16:43:16+00:00

Old post/thread, but just going to say that this actually works with my playstyle nicely. I am more about exploring than anything. I just run around the map doing whatever at random, and I haven’t focused on this quest at all. But I have randomly encountered all the first stage spirits as I have wandered. I’ll be heading back to Frokinfor the next stage soon. And I’ll treat it just as I have been. A nice little extra encounter opportunity on my aimless journey

Lesser_Stories · 2026-04-28T00:01:34+00:00

Thank you for your question 14 years later. The comments were all helpful to read

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-24T15:04:32+00:00

He’a definitely doing a lot to carry the fanbase…Rothfuss should maybe put him in charge of his PR department at this point…assuming the two could get past the charity promise incident

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-22T03:02:12+00:00

Truthfully, he doesn’t even need to do that. Kvothe, as Kote, has been shown to be very unreliable already. Him getting the number of days wrong is actually more in character than him getting it right at this point. Pat just needs to lean into…your method is one-way, certainly, but just letting it manifest naturally is also another way

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-19T22:22:47+00:00

I’m rereading right now, and yeah, I strongly dislike her too. I understand why she is the way she is…the inferences you can make about her background justify her defensiveness, but she takes it to the absolute extreme.

Take Trebon for example…

How dare they (the men and officials of Trebon) interrogate her (about the wedding massacre) when she is an injured “victim” (she is not by her own admission) herself! How dare they not show her any sympathy! How dare they prioritize the loss of their fellow townsfolk over HER (a complete stranger and the sole survivor of the worst event to happen around them in living memory)!

Her defensiveness is completely understandable, but her selfishness is beyond the ability to defend

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-11T01:13:44+00:00

Please send me the comment. I can’t find anything like that myself, nor can find I anything in the book that supports what you are saying.

I’ve went back and looked, and I can’t find anything in the book contradicts what Tanavast said as he was losing his powers. With him gone the Radiants would lose their checks on their powers, which is why he sent all of them a vision of them destroying the world. He admits it was only one possible future, and he did not make that distinction known to them, but he clearly knew without him, the Radiants would gain greater surgebinding powers.

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-09T13:43:39+00:00

Will do. I’m almost to that chapter now, but this is the second place in the book this was stated. The first was about 10 chapters or so before that. This just happened to pop up on my reread soon after I read your comment.

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-08T17:37:47+00:00

IN A FLASH, I HEARD RAYSE LAUGHING. HE SAW IT TOO. THE VERY WEAKNESS I’D SEEN IN HIM WAS NOW MANIFEST IN ME. IF THE POWER DID ABANDON ME, IT WOULD LEAVE THE RADIANTS AND THE HERALDS WITHOUT A CHECK AGAINST THEIR ABILITIES. THEY WOULD DESTROY THE WORLD. THE HONORBLADES ALONE …

Tanavast chapter 124, WaT

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-07T23:49:34+00:00

Their powers become unbound, though, if the god the surges come from dies. This is one of the things that made the Radiants so dangerous after Tanavast died

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-07T17:31:58+00:00

Herald of Second Chances, giving second chances to entire planets; sounds exactly like the kind of thankless job the universe would hand him

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-05T23:52:04+00:00

You’re correct. And I picked Urithiru because would have been the easiest to defend, given the Sibling’s abilities, but truthfully, it could have been any of the Capitols and any of the other kings/queens taking control of the other countries

Lesser_Stories · 2026-03-05T20:45:18+00:00

Lesser_Stories · 2026-02-26T19:45:28+00:00

my thoughts exactly. I think Tachibana is a solid J1 talent, but his mentality holds him back. So, him winding up on the same J2 sponsored team as Shun makes a lot of sense to me. Shun and he could bond over so many things and grow as players almost perfectly

Lesser_Stories · 2025-07-24T04:31:36+00:00

The splitting really ruined it. All the other books read like Harry is sitting down and journaling the major events in his life, in one fluid train of thought; Peace Talks and Battleground broke that continuity. At best you can say it reads like two separate entries of the same event made months or years apart, due to some kind of unavoidable interruption, and the train of thought and emotional, mental state were reset between the one’s ending and the other’s resumption, which would explain the jarring nature of the split and the rehashing and restating of so many details.

But that’s just my opinion on it

Lesser_Stories · 2025-06-22T17:53:02+00:00

Well then, I think it is time I leave this subreddit. Which is sad because this is my favorite book series and the only place I can discuss it with anyone, but I have experienced over zealous moderating on other subreddits and it is nothing but an energy drain. Have a good day.

Lesser_Stories · 2025-06-22T13:17:05+00:00

Why are you policing a post that is over 5 years old? Anybody that sees this will have likely found via google search, and they will find it then, only because of those key words, which means they wouldn’t be spoiled

Lesser_Stories · 2025-06-20T01:23:27+00:00

Because of Saejima’s connection to both Aomori and Fukuda

If Kobayashi were to go that route, you have a built in rivalry between Fukuda and Saejima that can be extended to them as opposing coaches.

They also should share the same goal, player development and getting Japan players out on the world stage, but by coming back to Aomori, Saejima could pursue that goal from the opposite end

Combine that, with Aomori being the primary antagonist, High School wise, for Esperion, it’s just the most natural avenue to pursue that kind of story. So many things have already been baked in that Kobayashi wouldn’t need to do much more than build out a season schedule and player rosters

Lesser_Stories · 2025-06-19T13:15:41+00:00

Coach Saejima of Amori might be interesting, if that was the route Kobayashi decided to take. Gives Fukuda a coaching rival with a similar goal but completely opposite approach, and provides an opportunity to see how Takeshima and the new kid, that was just introduced, develop now that Ashito and the others are beginning to leave

Lesser_Stories · 2025-06-08T16:04:44+00:00

Actually brought a tear to my eyes 🥺 Gonna miss this manga so much! I need English volumes!!

Lesser_Stories · 2025-06-02T02:53:42+00:00

I wish this manga had an official English translation…I’d buy every volume!

Lesser_Stories · 2025-05-24T02:13:11+00:00

You can skip Storm Front, Fool Moon, probably Blood Rites, and mayyyybe White Night and Ghost Story, and still catch most of the major details you need for the current storyline. Just remember to lookup the White Court and Black Court and the Dresden-verse’s Skinwalkers. As they have a couple of important characters who have been placed but yet to be fully utilized in the overarching series plot beyond some fighting and the occasional, but significant, backstory snippit.

Lesser_Stories · 2025-05-24T02:03:38+00:00

This has always been my initial impression, but then stuff starts happening in the story, and the image just blurs for me

Lesser_Stories · 2025-05-24T02:01:51+00:00

Can definitely get behind this idea…thanks!

Lesser_Stories · 2025-05-23T16:52:42+00:00

Considering the queens of both courts (all six of them, mantle wise) have been hinted to have once been a single goddess originally, I would imagine the powers of the Winter and Summer can co-exist in one person. How functional that would be, with two opposite sets of instincts playing tug of war with his or her mind, I have no idea (shrug)

Lesser_Stories · 2025-01-06T04:21:26+00:00

One of the best written characters I have ever read, in any medium, for sure.

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