#sorcerer of the north

[ragingadhd]

I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention that this meme is canon in the RA universe

#rangers apprentice #will treaty #alyss mainwaring #sorcerer of the north

[iwanttobepersephone]

Gn y'all

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice memes #sorcerer of the north #seige of macindaw #cant remember which book this happens in lol #funny #will treaty #john buttle #brb gonna cry myself to sleep over character angst that isnt even canon #(that last part is about cralt lol has nothing to do with the meme)

[araluenrangerdanger]

Finding out chapter 34 of the Sorcerer of the North is different in the AUS and US editions like:

Chapter 36 too

#ranger's apprentice #sorcerer of the north #book 5 #book 6

[rangertessadarling]

Lord Orman: "you're a ranger, aren't you?" Will, thinking: play dumb. play dumb. play dumb. Will: "what's a ranger?"

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #sorcerer of the north #nOT THAT DUMB

[araluen-arrows]

underrated scenes from sorcerer of the north

- will has his own fief!! oh my god!!! he’s all grown up and i’m so proud of him

- finding and saving shadow (i forgot she had differently colored eyes!)

- “it’s not a lute-”

- when gundar’s crew invades seacliff and will stops the invasion by inviting them to a banquet with araluen nobles

- alyss feinting a dagger throw at john buttle so that will can knock him out

- (paraphrased) will: "crowley’s getting a bit long in the tooth for all this sneaking around, don’t you think?”  halt: “mind you, his unseen movement skills are as good as ever.” will: “...he’s standing right behind me, isn’t he.” 

- will singing graybeard halt instead of old joe smoke

- will working as a jongleur in the countryside!! i really like this side of him because he gets to be sociable and crack terrible jokes, as he should. also, shadow helping him with his jongleur act by barking at verbal cues

- alyss pretending to be an “intellectual lightweight” as lady gwendolyn of amarle

- will getting the absolute shit scared out of him by the night warrior

- alyss realizing that the night warrior is an illusion, and that it’s caused by a powerful lens. atta girl.

- alyss rigging up a dummy in a riding cloak to look like her, and when she finishes her rendezvous with will, she and her guards do a quick-change between her and the dummy on the horse

- lord orman figuring out will isn’t a jongleur by asking him if his mandola was made by gilperon, when the real name of the famous luthier is gilet

- will trying to bluff his way out of it by staring blankly and going “ranger? i’m not a ranger?” 

- will, xander, and orman riding into grimsdell wood and learning the truth behind malkalam’s identity for the first time

- will climbing the tower to break alyss out before realizing he has to leave her behind because keren is too close and he has to escape alone, again

- alyss breaking hypnosis by thinking of will’s eyes

- “i’m getting alyss out of that damned castle. even if i have to take it apart stone by stone to do it.”

#im not a wilyss shipper but this book is Good for them #rangers apprentice #will treaty #alyss mainwaring #ranger's apprentice #john flanagan #sorcerer of the north

[dripping-dropping-down]

Does anyone else think their hypno kink comes from the Ranger’s Apprentice series? Like, there was only one scene, chapter 35 in Sorcerer of the North, but like... In light of some conversations with a couple mutuals, there’s gotta be more of us who can look back at that scene where Keren is showing Alyss that gemstone who go, “ah, yes please.”

#hypnosis #my thoughts #trance #book #Rangers Apprentice #Sorcerer of the North

[burnin0akleaves]

Ranger Gathering Day 2: Mystery

Pov: You're Will Treaty shitting himself

The design was heavily referenced from cover art, I just played around with the spikes and gave the Night Warrior a smile (turn your brightness on!)

#malcolm #night warrior #ranger gathering 2023 #rangers apprentice #sorcerer in the north #🍃 fanart

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

My Sofia the First AU so far

Outside of OC lore, nothing much has changed.

Sofia doesn't consider Roland to be her dad. She pretends that she does and calls him 'Dad' to keep the peace but she doesn't actually consider him as such. She slowly comes to detest him as the years progress. She also refuses to think of him as "Dad" in private, and struggles to even say the word in reference to him when talking to the few who know her true feelings.

Cedric, the animals, Cordelia and Calista are the only ones aware of Sofia's true feelings about Roland.

She considers Cedric to be her dad, and Cedric considers her his daughter. Cordelia and Calista are like an aunt and cousin to her.

Lenore (OC) exists and sometimes shows up as a reoccuring character to cause shenanigans. She and Cedric have a frenemies/enemies to lovers dynamic.

#sofia the first #sofia the first au #cedric the sorcerer #king roland #sofia the first oc #cordelia the conjuror #calista sofai the first #lenore the north star

[kemetic-dreams]

Conner has done a great job of explaining how and why Jesus apeared to be a sorcerer or magician, as well as shedding light on one of the major reasons the Pharisees were perecuting him. Having spent time in Egypt, land of Egyptian Magick, where he also met Mary Magdalene, a Temple Priestess in the huge Alexandrian church (run by John the Baptist no less), he returned to his homeland (after spending 20 years in Egypt) where he had learned some basic tricks of the Magicians there. Jesus was not a sorcerer per se, it is just that the way he did his miracles looked like the way the Egyptian Magicians did it -- spitting (twice according to Mark) to give the blind man sight -- would not The God just speak the healing, or touch the man's forehead... why spit in the dirt? This is all better explored and exapanded on in Hegland's book Anunnakki Endgame III which goes into the backstpry of Jesus, Mary, John the Baptist, Paul and the creation of the New Testament (NT). Hegland also shares that he had the advantage of a Jewish Rabbi to explain scenarios in the NT and the Wedding at Cana is a real surprise. Key to the whole overall backstory is what the Piso Family in Rome was up to, and unfortunately Conner is not (yet) aware of that side of the story, but Hegland exposes it and connects the dots. You really need both Connor's and Hegland's books to get the whole picture... one expands the other.

‘Jesus the Sorcerer’ gets a ‘5’ just for putting ‘Jesus’ and ‘Sorcerer’ in the same sentence and title while being one of the very, very few to step into the huge footprints of Morton Smith (‘Jesus the Magician’). Conner doesn’t just repeat Morton’s focus on the pagan and Jewish witness of Jesus but rather does a better job on all the contemporary historical-critical issues of the New Testament ( a la Bart Ehrman) as well as a more complete comparison with the Greek magical papayri. Conner even extends his analysis to Paul who he dismisses as “concerned only with convincing”, Clement of Alexandria and Origen who admitted to keeping secrets, and early church theologians who were busy cursing their opponents (in good Egyptian magical tradition).

The book also gets a ‘5’ for its comprehensive and insightful Greek scholarship. The Jewish trial accusations against Jesus of “deceiver” and “imposter” are easily decoded as “sorcerer” as well as the accusation in Luke of “perverting our people”. The Spirit descending “on” Jesus like a dove is re-written in Matthew and Luke as “upon” so as to not give the impression Jesus is channeling or being ‘adopted’ at that point. Conner explains insightfully that the ‘Beloved Disciple’ who is “lying against Jesus” often translated in his “bosom” actually can refer to being in his “lap”.

Conner also gets a ‘5’ for his superb scholarship. His footnotes are as long as his chapters, however his chapters are mercifully short. He easily makes the overall point that there is virtually no difference between magic (which he succinctly defines as ‘religion that works’) and Christian prayer, exorcism, miracles, casting lots for the replacement of Judas, and using ‘black magic’ against their opponents. He notes that Luke screwed up using the “finger of God” phrase since it goes back to magical papyri and sorcerer opponents of Moses. Magical techniques Jesus used most often referenced in Mark are using spit, groaning, looking up to the sky, using special words of power, and dramatics. He insightfully recognizes that the power of Jesus was magical in that it had no moral or personal quality to it since it adhered to his very clothing—and, later the same idea transferred into the veneration of relics. He also perceives that Paul really had an adoptionist theology. Jesus was “appointed” son of God at the Resurrection using several quotes from Romans and Acts.

Conner even ventures into the area of Secret Mark and makes a great case that its depiction of Lazarus being roused out of the tomb and spending the next six days with Jesus in the home of Lazarus before a secret initiation was the original Mark with the current versions in Mark and the Gospel of John being the cover-up. Conner also makes a decent argument that Lazarus is the ‘Beloved Disciple’ of John but does not convince me since the same circumstantial argument could be made for Mary Magdalene who he unfairly consigns to the second century rumor bin.

The book is a worthy companion to ‘Jesus the Magician’ but its biggest failing is taking modern scholarship too seriously in portraying Jesus as a failed end times prophet and keeping Gnosticism at arms-length in the second century. Paul was actually the end-times prophet and his Herodian family and friends who penned the four Roman gospels followed his lead. Jesus was actually a mystery school teacher who taught soul travel as one can see clearly from the Dialogue of the Savior that scholars agree is first century material. The Gospel of Thomas is obviously a crypto-gnostic work of the first century as well since the Gospel of John was so clearly written to counteract it by embarrassing Thomas, saying that you can’t follow Jesus in soul travel, and that all one has to do is believe in the new Logos theology. A 2014 book called ‘The Lost Gospel’ also does a scholarly job of fixing the allegory of ‘Joseph and Asenath’ in the first century as a Jewish-Christian gnostic work about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. All these issues are covered in my book of 2013 on Amazon called ‘The Samaritan Jesus’.

#kemetic dreams #north africa #africa #jesus #jesus christ #faith in jesus #jesus is coming #jesusisgod #faith #bible #salvation #god #sorcerer #jesus the sorcerer #magic

[artsysurvivor]

[Image ID: Will is in a forest, at the bottom of the picture facing away from the camera. He is looking up at a shrouded, giant being with horns on it's head and red glowing eyes. Everything is heavily shaded, aside from some spots on the pine trees and the ridges of Will's cloak, the one arm that's shown and head which has a red light to them. /End ID]

Uhhh I should've looked up what the "Sorcerer" looked like before I drew this but honestly I think it looks cool so I don't really care if it's inaccurate.

#I mean #I feel like most things I draw for this fandom isn't that accurate anyway so Idk what to say here #ranger gathering 2023 #ranger's apprentice #will treaty #malcolm #(implied) #The Sorcerer of the North #I tried to invoke fear #scream or something for me idk #day 2 - mystery

[ranger-raziel]

So, I’m still reading book 5, and one thing that’s kind of annoying me at the part I’m at is the book giving several paragraphs to describe who Horace is. I understand maybe giving a quick refresher, since audiences may have forgotten some things in the time between the publishing of book 4 & 5 and this is the first time he’s showing up this book, but Horace was a major part of the first 4 books!! The audience wouldn’t have entirely forgotten who he is/what he can do. It’s just kind of annoying

#rangers apprentice the sorcerer of the north #the sorcerer of the north #rangers apprentice #ra #ranger's apprentice #horace altman #ranger raziel posts #rangers apprentice book 5 #ra book 5

[iwanttobepersephone]

I am once again leaving a rangers apprentice gif behind as I go to sleep

#funny #rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #sorcerer of the north #rangers apprentice memes

[two-hands-toward-the-sun]

massive cralt thoughts about how they were apparently staying together at castle araluen (or was it the gathering ground?) while running support for will while he was in macindaw

#unrelated but ​he estado blogueando sobre los simus para las últimas dias #y ahora me siento raro blogueando de mis blorbos en inglés lmao #rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #cralt #the sorcerer of the north

[getougender]

actually wait how does this whole “getting international hands into sorcery” thing fit into kenjaku’s plan at all

#also it’s either an inconsistency or kenjaku straight-up lied about how widespread sorcerers are? #‘practically exclusive’?????? #wasn’t there a chapter forever ago that while japan is a hotspot there are also a fair amount in north america and the middle east? #how likely is it that kenjaku’s going to start killing politicians? #riko.txt #kenjaku #jjk leaks #jjk spoilers #jjk

[rangertessadarling]

i don't think we, as a fandom, have discussed the very likely possibility that there might be actual magic in the next TRR book??

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #i remember reading the sorcerer of the north and going YESSS FINALLy #and then being disappointed that it was all a ruse #but the wargals mind-control thing?? was NEVER really explained?? #and maybe--MAYBE #it'll finally be discussed in this next book and we'll finally get some sorcery action #but also maybe none of us have talked about it because we don't want to get our hopes up #that's happened one too many times before 😭😭

[gaytomwambsgans]

hhhhhng does anyone have a download for Age of Stone and Sky: The Sorcerer Beast like i’m a combsaholic but all the free streaming sites it’s on are only available in north america and i usually just 🏴‍☠️ all my shit but i can’t find it on any of those sites i’m dying i’m on my knees

#i know i can buy it off amazon video or pay for a vpn to change my ip to north america but i'm talking Free #Age of Stone and Sky: The Sorcerer Beast #age of stone and sky #the sorcerer beast #jeffrey combs #mine