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The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

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For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.

But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.

It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo--aide to Mawat, the true Lease--arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself...and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

Mod opinion: I hadn't heard about this book before, it sounds interesting, but not really like the type of books I read.

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[fanfic-obsessed]

Liberties

Here is an idea where liberties are taken and frankly not given back. This is a world where Cerasi survived Mawat’s assination attempt. Obi Wan never went back to Jedi. Instead he continued to help rebuild Melidaan and continued to follow the Force.  Every so often the Force would send him out into the galaxy to meet other Force Sensitives, and adopt them. This is a world where Obi Wan learns to own his attachments instead of repressing them. In addition every force sensitive that was active in the outer rim is eventually drawn to at least stop on Melidaan. Light or Dark; Sith, Jedi, and everything in between. Up to and including Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious in their alter egos. No one thinks to tell the Jedi High Council.

I picture Xanatos showing up, first because of his obsession with revenge against Qui Gonn, then after hearing Obi’s story being like ‘now we are truly brothers’. He is batshit insane and cheerfully vows not to sell Obi or any of Obi’s people into salvery every time he arrives but he is a genius for creating/managing resources and Obi would do anything for his chosen people, even reluctantly spending time with the man that is at the center a good chunk of his trauma. 

Things get even weirder when Feemor is reunited with his lineage brothers. Frankly all of them need so much therapy. 

At some point they (by they I mean the Young government in combination with the various Force users that pop in and out of their lives) create a school for force sensitives on Melidaan, just called The School. It is semi secret in that knowledge of it never quite reaches general knowledge in the core worlds but not through any actions on the part of the people involved. In that time Obi-Wan discovers something interesting. While about 90% of force users can use either side of the Force without issue, the evil comes from the actions not the side of the force, the other 10% is restricted to Dark or Light with the other side being akin to an addiction.  Exclusive dark side users are less common, due to an inherent recklessness that tends to get themselves killed, but they do exist. 

Something nobody knows is that Yoda and the Master that trained him were both within that small percentage restricted to use of the Light side. He has assumed that his reaction to the dark is a commonality of all force users, not a restriction that he has. 

Of the Sith of this time, in the years before Plageus died, Palpatine is the first to find his way to their out of the way little planet. It was mostly an accident, with the force subtly guiding his fingers to put in the wrong coordinates for a hyperspace jump. Though Palpatine does fall into the 90% that can use either side, he has been using the darkside almost exclusively for decades. Users of the darkside, particularly Sith, tend to see the force more of a servant than a teacher. Thus the Force, semi sentient, has to be much more subtle when dealing with Sith. 

Palpatine is somewhat confused as he lands, for once listening to the force as it presses him forward. He had been headed for a vacation on Naboo.  At this time he is still a part of the current senator’s retinue, a few years away from being a senator himself. The people in the space port barely look at him before directing him up to The School.  It is generally assumed that any strange, unknown visitors looking vaguely confused about where they were have something to do with the Force and should be dealt with by Obi Wan. To be fair, this policy has only been wrong twice. 

Palpatine is politely, but firmly, loaded into a transport and dropped off at the school.  None of his questions were answered along the way.  He spent a bit of the ride sort of wondering if he was being abducted, why he wasn’t more concerned or angry about that fact, and rationalizing following this weird feeling in the Force to its conclusion. 

He is brought to Obi Wan’s office, as the head of the school. Obi Wan asks him if he prefers direct questions and answers or complicated politic conversation. At Palpatine’s surprised look,  Obi Wan goes on to say that they want people to be comfortable and he doesn’t have a preference.  Normally Palpatine would enjoy political back and forth but by this time his curiosity is piqued. The first question that Obi Wan asks is if Palpatine is aware of his own force sensitivity.  This serves to shock Palpatine into stillness, the only other person to clock his force sensitivity had been Plageuis many decades before. He had even managed to hide it on Coruscant from the High Council of the Jedi.  

In the silence that followed Obi wan explained about this being a school for force sensitives that felt they had nowhere else to go.  Members of the Jedi Order that had been expelled or relegated to a corp due to lack of being chosen, Knights and Shadows who felt disconnected from the Order. There were also Force sensitive that had been exiled from their own planets due to their force sensitivity, escaped slaves, and more than a few that were there because the force said they should be. Obi Wan has pamphlets, which he hands over to Palpatine. Obi Wan went on to explain that Paplatine was free to explore his sensitivity here as long as the rules were followed:

No action that would deliberately cause permanent or long lasting injury to anyone on the planet, defined as any injury that cannot be healed in 48 standard hours, be it physical, mental, emotional, or psychic. The creation of soul wounds are never permitted on the planet as they are almost always permanent. 

Unless agreed to previously, do not approach students or teachers of this school off this planet. Some may not be comfortable with their connection to The School being public knowledge.

As it is possible for members of this school to end up on different sides of a conflict, if one member recognizes another it is courtesy to ignore the other if possible. If not, then the courtesy of a quick death. 

Any technique that will change the environment or the Force on the planet toward either the Dark or the Light will only be performed only with the permission of the School Board and the Planetary government.  The only exception will be 4 specially dedicated areas:

An area on the West side of campus dedicated to the Dark

An area on the East side of campus dedicated to the Light

An area to the South that is dedicated to combining beginner to mid level Dark and Light techniques that is open to anyone.

An area to the North dedicated to combining advanced Dark and Light techniques that requires special authorization.

The use of these areas is predicated on the results of what is effectively a Force Allergy test to ensure that the being falls into the 90% that can use either side without harming themselves

All experimental techniques used on this planet that have a test subject must have a written waiver from the subject stating that they agree to the test, with full knowledge of the potential risks and no coercion to the part of the testor.  

Experimental techniques that have a greater that 75% chance of one of the following must be pre approved by the School Board and the Planetary Council:

Changes to the environment, the Flora, the Fauna, or the Force lasting more than 1 hour

Death

A soul wound

Permanent or Long Lasting injury, as defined above. 

Acceptance of responsibility of any and all beings created or changed through the Force

Avoid Building 15, for the thing it houses is an abomination even to itself. Unless, of course you discover how to give it the release of death. Then please contact the administrator of facility management. 

All of these rules were written into a contract that was enforced by the Force itself through a humanoid conduit.  Apparently one of the Light and Dark mixed techniques that was discovered was for a Force Sensitive to tie themselves to a planet becoming an avatar of the Force on that planet. This avatar can then enforce a force based contract, and can remotely wipe the memories of breaches of contract depending on the severity. 

By the time Palpatine leaves he is not sure how he was convinced to sign the contract but he is glad he did. He is also mentally revising all of his empire plans to make sure this planet, which he finally determines is Melidaan, is protected at all costs and is now central to the reconditioning of initiates and padawans of the Jedi when the time comes.  He will later bring Plagueis to the school as well, with similar results. Though they do continue their more objectionable experiments, they are kept carefully off Melidaan.

For a decade this continues. Light and Dark agree that Obi Wan, and through him his new people, are precious and should be protected at all costs.  Just before TPM starts Obi is drawn to Tattoine, into the slave quarters. He is not a stranger to this planet or nearly any planet on the outer rim but he has never been to this outpost, these slave quarters before.  The Force ensures that he meets Shmi and Anakin two week before the Naboo delegation lands. The Force, so much clearer after a decade of being listened to, whispers that this boy is to be a younger brother and student to him but not yet. They must wait.  He is just as eloquent in this life and explains the Force and his feelings to Shmi, backed by Anakin. 

When Qui Gon Jinn arrives two weeks later Obi Wan is introduced as Ben, a friend of the family. Jinn does not recognize Ben as the student he once left behind. In fact he does not ever realize that he and Anakin are not the only Force Sensitives in the room. Anakin is a bit worried because the Force is saying that he needs to go with the Jedi, but he also wants to go with Obi Wan. Obi wan tells him quietly that just because the Force says go with the Jedi, it doesn't mean he will have to stay with the Jedi forever. 

There is no attack from Maul, as he is intercepted by Obi Wan. The two have a brief chat about what brought Maul to the planet. No one who knows him questions Obi Wan showing up in strange places. Maul is there to find an unfortunate being that had managed to steal from one of Maul’s Master’s smaller holdings. They hadn’t gotten away with much, but had taken a small statuette that he had been planning to donate to Obi Wan’s school for study. 

After the Naboo delegation, Jinn, and Anakin leave the planet, Obi Wan and Maul trek back to Mos Espa.  They find the Ill fated thief, whom Maul sticks in a prison cell on his ship, retrieves the stolen artifact, as well as enough money to buy Shmi Skywalker’s freedom. They do the latter and Maul drops Shimi and Obi Wan back off on Melidaan, where Obi Wan announces that Shimi is the mother of their newest kin to Nield, Cerasi, and a visiting Xanatos. 

Everyone just kind of rolls their eyes and goes back to what they were doing, baring Xanatos.  This was far from the first time that Obi Wan had adopted someone, or increased their family abruptly. The darksider wanders over and begins to flirt, heavily, with Shmi. 

Side Note: I picture Shmi to be about early 40’s at the time of TPM.  If Xanatos had lived he would have been 37, so it could have worked. 

Obi Wan assures Shmi that Xanatos wouldn’t hurt her and would stop if she wanted him to. Thus assured she starts to flirt back, is slightly awkwardly because social norms for a slave are very different from that of freepeople.  

Obi wan announces he is going to their new brother and leaves, going back to Coruscant for the first time since he arrived at Melida/Daan.  He arrives as Qui Gon Jinn is proclaiming his intention to take Anakin as a Padawan. The entire council is surprised when a redhead in his twenties just wanders into one of the most secure chambers in the temple, and not through the front door. In reality every Jedi learns as an initiate how to sneak around in the temple, even into the council chamber. It was a bit of a rite of passage to prank the council chamber at least once when in the Creche. Obi Wan certainly remembers.

None of the Jedi in the room recognize him.

So Obi Wan appears, looking amused and like he had just happened to wander into these highly protected chambers that even other Jedi don’t always have access to. The High Council of the Jedi are looking at each other like ‘Da fuq?’ Anakin lights up and runs to hug Obi Wan, calling him Ben. Jinn peers at Obi Wan, having only barely realized he was actually a person when they met in Shmi’s home, whom he doesn’t recognize. 

Side Note: I sort of head cannon Jinn, when separated from his mountain of trauma and trauma responses, is almost an oblivious scientist type, think Wayne Szalinski from ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’. In his element he is a prodigy, but he also would wander around only partially dressed because he had an idea, or in Qui Gon’s case he was distracted by something to do with the Living Force. Still an asshole, but mostly out of obliviousness or his pile of trauma rather than maliciousness.  

The council tries to find out who Obi Wan is or how he got there but he is enigmatic. He just says he is here to pick up his kin, Anakin, if it was time. He directs this as a question toward Anakin, ignoring the council. Anakin gets thoughtful and says that the Force says it is not time yet, but that Ben could come with them until it is.  Obi Wan nods but continues to dodge any attempt to get more information out of him about who he is, making pithy comments. 

Just before the tension this is causing could erupt, the large doors of the council chamber slam open, startling everyone. Quinlan Vos, dragging Bant Eerin, bursts into the room at speed. As soon as they cross the threshold he drops Bant’s hand and practically jumps on Obi Wan with a loud cry of “OBI”. Bant looked at them like she couldn’t believe that he was here. Quinn had been to Melidaan, as had most of the Shadows. In fact, of Obi Wan’s temple friends, it is Bant who he has not had a chance to speak to in person in a decade. She is Temple Bound as a healer.  

Obi Wan grumbles fondly about how Quinn gave his identity away. He had at least four more pointed answers, designed to make Qui Gon Jinn burst a blood vessel. Why yes, Obi Wan is slightly bitter about the whole abandoned in a war zone, why do you ask?

It isn’t until Bant sobs Obi Wan’s name that anyone realizes who is standing in the chamber. Qui Gon get even more agitated seeing the padawan he abandoned being clung to by the shiny new prophecy child he found.

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The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.

But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.

It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo - aide to Mawat, the true Lease - arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself ... and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

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[toushindai]

Happy 4th anniversary of Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day! In honor thereof and in spite of authorial clarification that the Strength and Patience of the Hill is in fact a large boulder the size of a large boulder, I want to recommend The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie emphatically to everyone who sees this post.

What's it about?

I tried to write a summary myself but I'm bad at that (and this is not a straightforward story to summarize). Here's the official one, retrieved from Goodreads:

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes. But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods. It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo--aide to Mawat, the true Lease--arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself...and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

What's a large boulder got to do with it?

Well that's who it's narrated by :)

The Strength and Patience of the Hill is one of the many gods that inhabit the world of The Raven Tower. It is a large black stone with white striations and it has been around as a conscious entity since, oh, approximately the Cambrian era. It is a patient and deliberating god. It likes nothing more than to sit in place and ponder the world and its best friend is a swarm of mosquitos. I love the Strength and Patience of the Hill with all my heart. Read this book and you, too, can fall in love with a rock.

What else?

Well this is tumblr so it may interest you to know that Eolo is a transgender character! (He's often described as a trans man, although I've seen a post recently pointing out that given the chance to describe himself his answer is "I'm not a woman," so it may not be correct to describe him in binary terms.) This is something that's important and private to Eolo and treated with respect by those who know it about him.

The story is told not in chapters but in scenes of various length, meandering between the "past" (the Strength and Patience of the Hill narrating its own history in first person, starting in the recesses of geological time and eventually telling of its own initially contact with Iraden and the Raven) and the "present" (a medieval-ish Africa-ish setting) narrated about and to Eolo in second person, Strength and Patience speaking "to" Eolo (though doubting his ability to hear or understand it). As such, the book rewards patience and close attention without being unapproachable.

Another reason the book rewards close attention: the way gods' powers work in this world is that anything they say must be true or their power will make it so; if they lack the power to make it so, the attempt (which they cannot stop) will drain them of power and kill them. Strength and Patience has had a long time to think about these powers--what they mean about the nature of language and about the nature of existence itself, as well as how they can best be used to its own advantage...

In conclusion

I'm really quite clumsy when it comes to recommending things I like, so maybe my previous occasional post on the subject has not adequately expressed how much I think everyone in the world should read this book. Please read this book. Stan this rock with me. For Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day.

Thank you for your attention.

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[esevik]

Up to page 407 (the end of the book)

Wow, what an ending.

Strength and Patience finally strikes/takes its revenge and the tower is coming down. I think it's interesting how characters have been instructed several times to "have patience" (mostly those connected with the Raven) and if they would have just waited a little more this whole explosive ending wouldn't have happened. But they didn't. The only one who waited until it had all the information before making a move was S&P. Eolo tried to warn Mawat and the others about acting too hastly but as I said before, Mawat didn't deserve Eolo's undying loyalty.

Also it turns out the Myriad was still alive which is really nice! (Not for the people soon to be invaded by her insects but as someone who liked her character it's good to see she survived.)

Overall this book was quite the fast read when I finally got the time to sit down and read it. I really liked it and I would happily read another book by Ann Leckie.

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[senzacaponecoda]

lowkey kinda think Egyptian (probably Semitic and Amazigh too) had a dissimilatory sound change m -> w / m..._

mwt meaning mother and death is a very likely to be taboo'd near-homophone imo. Makes sense if *mamat -> *mawat tho

It's also something I kinda think happened with the proto-E-S-A plural? something like *m

Egyptian mostly saw *m -> w, like *libba-m(u?) -> *ʎibbaw̃ -> *ibbaw <jb.w>

With the ku-m ki-m su-m si-m etc endings the weak right edge just turned it into <n> which might have been nasalization or just delabialization or something.

Semitic imo tended to extend it with echo vowels, so those became -kumu, -humu etc in like Arabic. And probably the -im plural of many Canaanite relatives, and the -un plural of Arabic similar to the Egyptian thing.

If I wasn't a lazy bastard I'd comb through Egyptian words that look like mm -> mw or maybe analogously bb -> bw or nn -> nr or whatever for dissimilation like that. But like there's not a lot of good sources for that kind of thing semantically that aren't already 1212 or 122 or 112 kinds of verbs.

[rockislandadultreads]

The Shire is Burning... so Mordor it is...

epic fantasies and extraordinary adventure titles

Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan

Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods they call Fhrey, truly a race apart: invincible in battle, masters of magic, and seemingly immortal. But when a god falls to a human blade, the balance of power between humans and those they thought were gods changes forever. Now only a few stand between humankind and annihilation: Raithe, reluctant to embrace his destiny as the God Killer; Suri, a young seer burdened by signs of impending doom; and Persephone, who must overcome personal tragedy to lead her people. The Age of Myth is over. The time of rebellion has begun.

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes. But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods. It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo--aide to Mawat, the true Lease--arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself...and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

Eyes of the Forest by April Henry

After a bestselling fantasy author disappears, only his biggest fan believes he’s in danger and has the courage to uncover the truth in this fast-paced mystery with a chilling psychological twist. Bridget is RM Haldon's biggest fan. His epic fantasy series, Swords and Shadows, created a lifeline between Bridget and her mom as she lost her battle with cancer. When Bridget met Haldon at his only book signing, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy world he'd created. Bridget has been working for him ever since as he attempts to write his final book. Now, Haldon is missing, and Bridget is the only person who seems concerned. Can Bridget piece together Haldon’s clues and save him before it’s too late?

In a Garden Burning Gold by Rory Power

Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years, they've been each other's only ally, defending each other and their younger siblings against their father's increasingly unpredictable anger. Now, with an independence movement gaining ground and their father's rule weakening, the twins must take matters into their own hands to keep their family—and their entire world—from crashing down around them. But other nations are jockeying for power, ready to cross and double cross, and if Rhea and Lexos aren't careful, they'll end up facing each other across the battlefield.

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[owlbelly]

omg PLEASE update with what you think of TRH if you make it further in the book. i love “hard fantasy”, it’s such a fun genre. and the second person / first person split narrative is so fun. i love that book

(i'm assuming this was The Raven Tower & the H was a typo? anyway spoilers for TRT ahead!)

i finished it a few days ago! it was kind of a mixed bag for me, there were things i really loved about it (the characters, particularly Eolo, the worldbuilding, S&P's distinctive narrative voice) and other things that frustrated me (the pacing, mostly the amount of time we spent with S&P figuring out & musing on physics/biology, some lack of character development - i was really invested in Mawat actually learning some shit by the end). i think maybe i just wanted more to happen & more closure for some things! i've never come across the term "hard fantasy" but that's definitely spot on. it was wild to read this so soon after reading Harrow the Ninth, which is maybe the only other book i've ever read in second person? both Muir & Leckie know how to make it work for sure.

i'm reading some early Ursula LeGuin now before i go finish the Elderlings books, but after i'm done with all that i'll probably get Ancillary Justice out of the library!

#ezra reads #the raven tower

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Title: The Raven Tower

Author: Ann Leckie

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2019

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, science fiction, speculative fiction

Blurb: For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. Under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes...but the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts, and they have made their own alliances with other gods. It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo - aide to Mawat, the true Lease - arrives. In seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself...and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

#the raven tower #ann leckie #standalone #2019 #fiction #fantasy #lgbt #science fiction #speculative fiction

[outlawroute]

The Raven Tower

by Ann Leckie 1/5

This book was nominated and voted in for the book club I run. We will meet to discuss it as a group in a week, so I wanted to get my initial and solo opinions down before then. I don't think I would have picked this book up on my own if I had been introduced to it any other way. Sci-fi is probably my favorite genre; fantasy is probably one of my least- people think if you love one you gotta at least like the other.

The Raven Tower is told in alternating first and second person. Our narrator is the Ancient god, The Strength and Patience of the Hill aka a big, solid, grey, rock… The god alternates between their own history as well as recounting the present day role of Eolo, the right-hand aid to Mawat, a prince seeking to overthrow his usurper uncle and regain his place as the servant of a local god. Our narrator is monotone and like almost all omniscient characters, written with absolutely no soul or empathy. Our main character, Eolo, is unfortunately boring. And the rest of the characters are one dimensional- fitting classic tropes- greedy, bad, selfish, etc. If we don't care for any of the characters then the reader should care for the place itself, Iraden? But it's also underdeveloped and I found that I didn't care about its inevitable destruction caused by the stupid decisions of most of our unlikeable characters.

I don't agree with Leckie's decision to write the book in alternating first and second person. I believe Eolo's storyline would have been much more compelling if we could hear his internal monologue. Then we'd have insight to the connections between characters, his clever thinking, and perspective of a trans man in this universe. But instead, his storyline is told by a rock god. And as for the God's first person narrative, I found most of his history boring and unimportant to the overall plot until maybe the last couple writings.

The entire story is slow, with little development for the first 280 pages of a 400 page book. By the time the book picks up, I didn't care and it was too little too late. The ending was unfulfilling and anti-climactic.

For 2024, I decided to allow myself to quit books. This would have been the first book I'd have quit at around 230 pages. I only pushed through so I could rate the book low during our book club discussion instead of having to record DNF.

I'd recommend this book to those who believe fantasy can do no wrong. Otherwise, it's a lackluster slow paced book with little payoff.

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[fanficistherapyandcanonismybitch]

Bonus scene from my fic

Mawat to Obi-Wan about Obi-Wan:

[rjalker]

I'm ggonna kill this man!!!

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“Tikaz,” Mawat began.

[rojaulhuda]

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Terjemah Fathul Qorib Fasal Ihyaul Mawat

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#fathul qorib #Terjemah Kitab

[areenmuhammed]

مەبە بە قوربانی کەس، خۆت مەکە بە تێشووی ژیانی کەس زۆرێکمان بووین بە فیدای کەس و شتەکانی بەرامبەرمان، ئەمەش وایکردووە کە زۆر زوو لەیاد بکرێین و ببینە نێچیری تۆڕی بەرامبەر. ئەشبینیت کە دوای ماوەیەک خەم دامان دەگرێت و نازانین ھانا بۆ کێ بەرین چونکە پێویستمان بە یەکێکە بەڕاستی یارمەتیمان بدات و ھاوکارمان بێت و دوو قسەمان بۆ بکات و ئامۆژگارییەکی خێرمان بکات دەزانیت ھۆکار چییە؟ چونکە زوو متمانە ئەکەین، زۆر کەس لە چواردەورمان کۆ ئەکەینەوە، زۆر زوو تێکەڵ ئەبین و نھێنییەکان ئەدرکێنین بۆ کەسی بەرامبەر، زۆر زوو خۆمان تەسلیمی بەرامبەر ئەکەین، زیاد لە پێویست ھاوکاری نیشان دەدەین، زۆر زوو دەکەوینە ژێر کاریگەری قسەی بەرامبەر، وە زۆر شتی تریش گەر ئەمڕۆ ئاوریشم بدەیت بە بەرامبەر، با لەسەر حسابی نەفس و ڕۆحت نەبێت و نەبیت بە قوربانی دەستی بەرامبەر. ئەو کرمەی کە ئاوریشم دروست دەکات و خەڵک بە شانازییەوە دەیکڕێت و دەیپۆشێت لەسەر ڕۆحی کرمەکەیە و ئەو دەبێت بە قوربانی لە ھەر جۆرە پەیوەندییەکی، لەگەڵ ھەر کەسێکی، و تێکەڵی ھەرکەسێکی مەبە بە ھۆکاری بەرزی ئەو و نزمی خۆت، ژیانی ئەو و مردنی خۆت، سەرکەوتنی ئەو و کەوتنی خۆت گەر زۆر ئاگادار نەبیت، دواتر بەکاریشبھێنرێیت پێی نازانیت و بە ئاسایی دەیبینیت وریا بە لە مامەڵە و تێکەڵاو بوون (at Mawat, Kurdistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci24iw_MZYq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[esevik]

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First of all, this book is told from an interesting perspective. At first glance it may seem like the book is told in second personal pronoun ("you") but it's actually first person ("I"). The "I" in the story just happens to focus their attention a lot on one specific character, Eolo. Eolo is pretty much the main character.

So far there are three main characters: 1. Eolo, a presumably former farm boy who currently works as an aid of Mawat. He has a hard time fitting in in the big city. He also seems to be a trans man? While the story follows him closely not much has been revealed about his past yet. 2. Mawat. He's Eolo's lord and a skilled fighter and strategist. He is the next in line to take over a responsibility relating to their god (there are a multiple of gods). However when he arrives at the start of the book it is revealed that his uncle has taken the position instead which will probably be the main conflict of the book.

3. The "I" in the story. It has yet to be properly explained but sofar it seems to be a god, a pretty old one too. It's trapped within the titular Raven Tower.

Overall the gods in the setting seems quite interesting with how they seemingly draw power from worshippers' prayers and sacrifices but they don't necesserily need to follow through on it. In a way the relationship between a god and its followers seems to be transactional with almost all benefits going to the gods.

It's a decent start to the story and I'll try to finish it before the year's end.

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