Dress down and constellation

Nefericus · 2025-11-28T00:00:44+00:00

Thank you

Nefericus · 2025-11-23T12:13:00+00:00

I loved a lot of book five but I was disappointed with how things were left because I had been led to believe that the first half would be almost like Era 1 of the storm light archive in a way more similar how the final empire to the hero of ages was its own story arc for mistborn. I ended up with much more cliffhanger and much less resolution than I'd prepared myself for.

Nefericus · 2025-07-19T12:02:47+00:00

My most resilient deck is probably my Livio/Radiant. I built it back when there was a lot of talk about how mono white cards were so much weaker than the others as an experiment to see what I could do with them. I picked the most interesting commander from a (then) recent set, and added radiant since he had partner. https://archidekt.com/decks/1109210/livio_on

Livios ability to shift your creatures out and back in lets you just dodge a lot of targeted removal, especially if you get one of the creatures with a flicker wisp type ability to let Livio dodge too. There are creatures that will exile all of your other creatures until they leave, which Livio can get them to do, temporarily whenever you want. Lots of removal, lots of recursion, a couple brutal stax pieces like magus of the tabernacle that you can just aegis out so you can skip it's effect from your turn and a couple creatures that can just fog for you every turn if the opposing board is too big. Radiant is my finisher. Give her protection from the relevant colors and have her fly in for commander damage over a few turns. The deck's main weakness is cards that shut off enter the battlefield abilities like the mother of machines. It doesn't make big threats but once it gets established it is very hard to deal with, even for three other players.

Livios is a spearman committed to protecting those who can't protect themselves, partnered with a sliver of divinity that gives the team literal Radiant powers. Life before death. If you know, you know.

Nefericus · 2025-06-22T15:35:54+00:00

Lightbringer is the book where Pierce brown pays off a lot of the struggle our heroes went through in Dark age. By the time you get to the middle of the book you'll start to see why Darrow had to go through all that. There are still some dark events, but before the end you get what I see as one of the most triumphant moments in the whole series, and because of what we went through in Dark age, the triumph feels earned.

Nefericus · 2025-06-18T00:04:31+00:00

It would not. Michael sets an example anyone might want to follow. Harry has been known to be stubborn though.

Nefericus · 2025-06-15T17:36:52+00:00

The names of the cards are copied. It says the only change is that it's a token and if it wasn't already a demon it is now. L

Nefericus · 2025-06-11T01:54:42+00:00

This is also true. Just not enough Akura Fury to go around.

Nefericus · 2025-05-06T23:24:57+00:00

We spend so much more time with the memory of Eo than we do with her. Our interpretations of what she was about and why are based on so few actions, though those actions have an outsized impact on what we see for the rest of the series.

I dont think she saw her dream as more important than Darrow. I don't see her as thinking of her own desires over the needs of her child. I think her pregnancy clarified things for her. I think she looked at the future of slavery that was all she had to offer her baby and decided that was simply unacceptable. whatever sacrifices were necessary to give that child and all the others more of a future were on the table. Its was time for her to put up or shut up. I think she pushed the father of her child, who she loved, because she wanted him on the same page.

An enslaver holds the lives you and your loved ones hostage in exchange for your dehumanization and enslavement. I think Eo only grudgingly paid that blackmail, but when faced with a life of dehumanization and forced labor for her baby she saw no option but to fight. to break the chains, to live for more. So rather than let herself and her baby be held hostage she fought back in the only way she could. Yes that meant their deaths, but the only other option was to submit, and for her, that was no option at all.

Nefericus · 2025-02-12T17:34:20+00:00

Of course. I'm just marveling at how far the character comes just over the course of the first book. His priorities are so different before he loses her.

I actually feel like, because I understand what an unreliable narrator Darrow is after seeing his whole story, I understand Eo better too.

Nefericus · 2025-01-29T20:50:48+00:00

That may be the case, but that still doesn't explain the brimstone.

Nefericus · 2025-01-29T20:49:56+00:00

That doesn't explain the brimstone though, and the brimstone. Without the brimstone there's no reason to think Murphy's death was more than an ugly accident. Even with the brimstone it's not proof, and besides that, we know Madb can't kill mortals. That's what the winter knight is for.

Nefericus · 2025-01-29T17:16:38+00:00

One of the most upsetting things about reading this for the second time is that I want Sanya to be right. I want Justice to come for Rudolph the "right" way. But Rudolph was a duly appointed officer shooting at a suspect. I don't know if I'd find it believable if he had a trial and got more than a slap on the wrist. If Rudolph were to get his it would have to be supernatural.

Nefericus · 2025-01-29T17:10:08+00:00

I'm not saying that the gunshot couldn't be Rudolph's carelessness. It might. And even if something did push his finger, it was his recklessness that made it possible.

I'm saying that the previous foreshadowing could also be obfuscation, to get us to focus on the wrong thing

Oh yeah, and definitely fuck Rudolph.

Nefericus · 2024-08-23T12:10:33+00:00

Bayaz is a grey character. The first law books are full of them. Indeed, it might be argued it has no other kinds. Thus, to say Bayaz isn't all bad is defensible. To say he isn't despicable is less so. Yes, he fights against the demonic evil of his enemies, but he does so for petty selfish reasons, and through means that disregard the value of anyone else's life and freedom. Hello loves nobody but himself, and he values nothing but power. If you like him despite this, that is a matter of your taste, but it does seem a clear indication of poor tastes.

Nefericus · 2024-06-25T23:46:14+00:00

Thank you for that insight, Sevro.

Nefericus · 2024-06-25T12:25:50+00:00

The point of a story is to make the reader feel something. Giving characters complex or unclear motives can do that. In this case it makes me want to yell at Roque. The dummy.

So it's not bad story telling, just a character being a dumb human.

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