#arazan's wolves

[burnin0akleaves]

Oh I'm sorry we were summoning demons?? My bad I heard "seducing".

#will treaty #krakotomal #arazan's wolves #rangers apprentice #the royal ranger #🍃 fanart

[rangertessadarling]

the alternate cover to Arazan's Wolves? hello?

the beard. where is the beard. flanagan explain.

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #will treaty #arazan's wolves #the royal ranger

[araluenrangerdanger]

Will and Maddie learning about the Direwolves:

#ranger's apprentice #will treaty #madelyn altman #maddie altman #trr spoilers #trr 6 #arazan's wolves #ra memes #mine

[permettez-moi]

Finnished book 17

And I am speechless

Not because it was so good

It was just so neutral i have nothing to say about it

#ra #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice #john flanagan #the royal ranger #trr #arazan's wolves

[redrose-arrow]

RedRose Reads: TRR6, Arazan’s Wolves

also known as the book i swore i wouldn’t bingeread and then, well, ended up bingereading

- i know i should feel for these farmers boys but i just want will and maddie

- WILL AND MADDIE

- maddie istg i love your stubbornness so much omg

- will’s absolutely going to SHOW maddie who’s boss

- not will being proud that maddie cheated 💀

- okok jokes aside, genuinely HOW GOOD is will if he noticed the cheating and still hit the target within literal tens of seconds ???

- GILAAAAAAANNNN

- i forgot how much i loved him

- “what brings you to redmont?” if he doesn’t answer “jenny” i’m throwing hands

- not tricking gilan because he’s the commandant??? nah, not tricking gilan because he’s a babe. i said what i said.

- “it would appear your mother had some strange parenting habits” ALSKDJDHS I CANT

- the tiny reference to will’s last time in celtica has my heart

- okay BIGGER reference, still has my heart

- page 21, two inconsistencies. i shall ignore them.

- JENNY WOULD KILL YOU, SHE WOULD, AS SHE SHOULD

- i love how jenny is canonically more important than halt and pauline

- please gilan i am literally begging you to move your headquarters to redmont

- all jokes aside, cassandra would not mind tbh

- george bestie i can’t wait to see you

- george you are a mood a legend an icon and i love you

- YOURE TELLING ME WILL IS SORT OF ADMITTING HIS TRAUMA???? i am nothing short of a mess

- the constant references to b2 are just *chef’s kiss*

- will being called greybeard???? i cannot breathe

- i am literally short of breath right now i absolutely can’t

- why and how did i miss morgarath’s name so much lmao

- the damn reference to macindaw, i just—- this book DELIVERS

- more about will and evanlyn in celtica and i will cry. i will.

- fear being normalised is something i hold so dear

- tug i am begging you not to attack another wolf

- “hahahaha yea let’s just walk into the trap” screw you, will, for playing with my feelings like that

- not the damn fissure

- will should honestly stop comparing people to his animals akskfjdjs

- if anyone ships will and eveningstar i’m gonna throw hands

- there’s something about the parallels that has me obsessed

- maddie falling in will’s arms is a detail i didn’t know i needed

- WILL TELLING MADDIE ABOUT THE PAST AAAAAHGGG IM SO SOFT FOR THEM

- THE OLD ARROW

- how are they capable of bantering right now, i would be scared as fuck

- “does tug talk to you?” oh here - we - go

- if will’s gonna do magic i’m gonna cheer him on

- “great shot” “not just a pretty face” akskdjdhd yes you go girl

- last time will had a plan maddie didn’t like, he almost got burned to death. sure as hell hope this won’t be like old times

- “i will give you what you most desire” we all thought of alyss, don’t lie to me

- “very very tired” ain’t that a whole ass mood

- next time????? please no

- i won’t lie i laughed when the bowstring snapped. it’s nerves. six pages left and I DONT KNOW WHATS HAPPENING

- oh it’s, it’s over

- owh

#redrose reads #redrose reading #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice #john flanagan #trr6 #arazan's wolves

[dragoneyes618]

So in Arazan's Wolves, when the demon tried to tempt Will to set him free by offering him riches and power and everything....

It would have added so much more conflict and struggle for Will if the demon had offered to bring Alyss back from the dead.

#ranger's apprentice #ra #will treaty #alyss mainwaring #arazan's wolves

[qualitymoonsuit]

I just finished reading Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, Book 6: Arazan's Wolves, by John Flanagan.

#birthday present #ranger's apprentice #the royal ranger #Arazan's Wolves #john flanagan

[theoakleafpancake]

YES YES YES YES IT CAME EARLY

#ahajsjsjdndjdjdksjdkdkslakdnfjjdjdnfnf #rangers apprentice #john flanagan #trr #trr 6 #the royal ranger #arazan’s wolves

[disasterace1]

I need someone that has already read the new (for me it’s new cause I’m dutch) Royal Ranger book “Arazans Wolves” to tell me-

Will there be actual magic in this book?

Cause in the summery they refer to Arazan as a a “sorcerer” that controls an army of Wargals and Direwolfs

And even though I like the idea of the wargals returning I always liked the fact that the Rangers Apprentice series played with the idea somethings were magical but there was always a logical explanation for it!

So- if i order the book, should i be excited or preparing for the worst?

#rangers apprentice #royal ranger #arazans wolves #will treaty #halt o'carrick #Araluen #maddie altman #madelyn altman #horace altman #cassandra #king duncan

[man-with-the-mandola]

spoilers for arazan’s wolves under the cut

fellow rangers apprentice fans…..did anyone else feel vaguely uncomfortable about all the anti-celtic sentiments in Arazan’s Wolves? The way they’re depicted as so bitter and superstitious, combined with Will’s dismissal of the whole nation just rubbed me the wrong way, considering how the Celtic nations have historically been treated by England.

#idk if it was just me #did anyone else feel like this #ranger's apprentice #john flanagan #arazan’s wolves #will treaty #maddie altman #rangers apprentice #ra #celtica #araluen #history

[burnin0akleaves]

I need this ship to break containment so I managed to draw something I can post on Tumblr

#howls are you serious? dead #I've drawn things where Will is considerably less smug also #will treaty #krakotomal #rangers apprentice #the royal ranger #arazan's wolves #🍃 fanart

[hope-deferred-inc]

Knife of Dreams

SPOILERS!!!!

Just finished reading the eleventh book. I took a bit of a break between 10 and 11. I am doing the same and reading another book between 11 and 12 (The Gathering Storm). Although, the book I am reading should only take a couple days (Arazan's Wolves). Anyway....

What in the world....

Why can't Rand just be? He has two horrible, non-healing woods that cause him pain ALL the time, dizziness and nausea every time he tries to embrace the power that he needs to save the world, friends who care more about power for themselves than supporting Rand in saving the world, and now, he has to lose a hand! He has to learn to fight all over again when the end of the world is only two books away!

Why didn't cleaning saidin help him? It helped everyone else. The entire world depends on Rand living to Tarmon Gai'don, so why couldn't he be healed of at least the stupid dizziness and nausea every time he embraces saidin. I just feel so bad for Rand.

Rand is one of my favorite characters. Perrin (although his actions in book 11 are beyond stupid. Let me just give the Seachans over 400 individuals that can channel - ugh. Fingers crossed it doesn't cause Rand any trouble), Loial, Thom, Lan, and Min (who is the only woman I can stand in the entire series).

I like the story and the above characters, but I just feel like it is dragging on for the sake of dragging on. And let's not talk about how the Forsaken now absolutely everything. I will finish the series though as I am curious about my favorite characters. My eyes are on finishing the Way of Kings next (Kal and Dalinar are my favorites so far as I am only about 35% of the way through).

#wheel of time #rand al'thor #perrin aybara #the way of kings #kaladin #dalinar #reading #knife of dreams #gathering storm

[peapodsinspace]

Good news!!!!!1!!!1!!!

My brotherband books finally came in!

Bad news: I have barley even started my (re) read of scorpion mountain so

I got distracted by like ten different things and forgor :(

On a similar note, despite ordering it BEFORE these two, arazan’s wolves (that’s what it’s called right? TRR one) has not come yet

Also self portrait pt 2!!!! Or it that technically my sona? Anyway that is What I Look Like IN Real Life, to the T (joking)

#brotherband chronicles #rangers apprentice #books and reading

[permettez-moi]

You know, I'm all for giving will some burning bridge-Wargal related trauma, but I'm starting to feel like the entirety of book 17 is just a re-telling of the burning bridge, done by Will

#ra #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice #john flanagan #the royal ranger #trr #arazan's wolves #the burning bride

[rangercorpstherapy]

Here was my theory about Arazan’s Wolves. Yes, John Flanagan said Alyss is dead and would stay dead. Royal Ranger is my favorite book, her death made the great ending possible. I was sad Alyss died, but it worked well for the plot. Now Will has not had any character development at all since (and let’s be honest, Maddie hasn’t either) so to bring Alyss back would be a great way to change and grow him as a character. Here were my reasons as to why it was possible:

1. No body.

This one is not the best, given the givens, but an inn fire could not have burned hot enough to completely incinerate a body.

2. The inn was likely partially made of stone, which was common in the area (South Araluen, this will be important later) so as the fire flared up in front of her, she could have fallen through the floor and a combination of roof beams and the stone walls could have protected her.

3. If she was alive, why didn’t she go back home to Will? Head injury causing amnesia and massive change in personality (will be important later)

4. She was in Southern Araluen, very near Celtica where the sorceress was. Not too far to walk.

5. The sorceress controls Wargals. We know from Siege of Macindaw that Alyss was susceptible to hypnosis, and her head injury could have changed her enough to make her even more receptive to the mind control magic system in the books to control Wargals.

6. Head wounds can cause severe changes in personality making Alyss want to rule the world.

7. To rule the world, what one has to do is this: control the Wargals to make the locals mine silver for you, buy a bunch of land in Gallica, take over Gallica, and from there take over the world.

8. The Sorceresse’s name. Arazan. In Nihon-Ja, because the locals couldn’t pronounce her name, Alyss went by “Ariss-san” pronounced identically to Arazan.

Personally I think my theory was far better than the book itself. Comments or questions?

I've never been a fan of 'return from the dead' scenarios in general. but honestly, I think it perhaps could work for in this scenario. Perhaps also because arazan's wolves is set a few books after the royal ranger so the twist doesn't feel as cheap. imagine if will and maddie came back home after the entire jory rhul thing just for halt to be on his doorstep and be like 'uhm your dead wife is alive and evil now, sorry.'

I love the idea of alyss becoming an antagonist with no way to ever get her back to her 'normal' state, which would mean that she would have to die or they will never be together again. and I love traumatizing will further than he already is and also indeed bring some much needed character development.

what i would change about your au is maybe the world domination plot point.

Alyss survived a fire, we can safly assume she will have some pretty bad scarring all over her body and/or face. from the the sorcerer of the north we know the people of araluen aren't the most accepting of people with physical differences. so this alyss who is very badly scarred, has no idea where or who she is and is also being ostracized by the communities she asks for help leaves the country.

maybe she saves a direwolf or a direwolf saves her which leads to her forming connections with them or mind control she's unaware of. this would be the first time after the fire incident she would feel loved and safe. she can create a stronghold in the mountains somewhere in celctica were she can live in peace because at this point she way to traumatized by people, and just let her dire wolves kill everyone who comes to close which would in the end lead to the same thing that happens in arazans wolves; will gets called to fix their issues, and angst ensues.

the similarities between arazan and the ariss-san is SUCH a cool observation. it would mean that alyss, somewhere deep down, can n remember her past, but it's distorted and layered in contexts she can't understand. ouch.

But how do you see this ending on the evil alyss route, who kills her? does will try and can't bring himself to do so which means madelyn has to step in? what happens after?

#rangercorpstherapy #rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #alyss mainwaring #you should write this rn

[rangertessadarling]

ok but in subscript, the concept of Arazan's wolves is actually so cool.

actual sorceress's this time? real magic? Will Treaty fighting big ass magic wolf things? Will Treaty fighting an actual demon and WINNING??? hell yes.

unfortunately, it was an extremely poorly executed book. however i feel like the idea of it could've been super cool had it been developed more. plus incorporating magic has always been something that i felt would've made the RA world more interesting

(i get that it's supposed to be historical fantasy, but... magic tho)

plus, Will Treaty casting spells is hot. that's just my take.

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #will treaty #the royal ranger series #tbh disliking Will's beard week has me just thinking about TRR all the time #i have nothing to say on his beard i'm too afraid