#the kings of clonmel

[ranger-raziel]

I ACCIDENTALLY GOT BLOOD ON MY COPY OF KINGS OF CLONMEL CAUSE I DIDNT REALISE MY FINGER WAS BLEEDING NOOOOO

#rangers apprentice #ra #ranger's apprentice #the kings of clonmel #rangers apprentice book 8 kings of clonmel #ranger raziel posts

[araluen-arrows]

underrated scenes from kings of clonmel

- Will being a mentor to three first-year trainees at the Gathering... how far he’s come :,)

- Crowley setting the tactical training exercise to “besiege a castle with one troop of acrobats and one jongleur” as a throwback to the siege of Macindaw

- Halt being on the run from a gang of bandits, capturing a bandit who went to flush him out, making said bandit dress up in his cloak, and having him jump off a cliff to confuse his pursuers

- Horace/Will: “why should this King Ferris take any notice of you?” Halt: “because he’s my brother”

- Halt asking Horace when he’s ever lied to him and Horace bringing up the “messenger girls” in Gallica from the Icebound Land

- Tennyson warding off the bandits from Mountshannon by having his followers stand in a semicircle and singing at them

- Will getting past the sentry to Tennyson’s camp by knocking him out and then pouring brandy all over him

- Horace, Halt, and Will single-handedly turning the tide at Craikennis against a force of eighty men, and Horace’s subsequent Sunrise Warrior legend

- Halt barges into the throne room of Clonmel after presumably two and a half decades away and going “hey bro i’m back” and Ferris has a heart attack and Sean swears fealty

- Sean in general being the most underrated character of this entire book, nay this entire series

- Horace telling Ferris that they can negotiate regarding Tennyson, getting him alone, and then knocking him out with a hook to the jaw

- forcing Halt to shave his beard using a pot of tea

- Halt cosplaying as Ferris, calling Tennyson an idiot in public, and setting up the trial by single combat. he comes back, Ferris is all “you can’t do that!!” and Halt tells him that this is the most popular he’s ever been in his life, thanks and you’re welcome. 

- Horace totally owning the first trial battle

- Horace, having drunk drugged water, is (explicitly written as!!) annoyed about having to die in such a stupid way and Will dramatically saving his ass by shooting his opponent

- Will figuring out the Genovesan drugged the water and bluffing him into confessing by forcing him to drink it

- WIll winning his own trial by single combat by guessing his opponent would cheat (step to the left just slightly) and adjusting his aim to compensate

- Halt’s “I’m getting too old for this” after having to watch both his sons engage in life-threatening combat in one afternoon

- Halt waltzing into the throne room, giving up his right to the crown, and appointing a very shell-shocked Sean to be king instead

#rangers apprentice #will treaty #halt o'carrick #horace altman #the kings of clonmel #john flanagan #sean o'carrick

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Kings of Clonmel | Author: John Flanagan | Publisher: Viking Books (2014)

#books #The Kings of Clonmel #John Flanagan

[iwanttobepersephone]

One of my favorite implications in Kings of Clonmel is the implication that Halt is only a light sleeper because he feels perpetually unsafe, but being in the same town where he grew up tricks his brain into feeling safe enough to really fall into a deep sleep, hence the sudden appearance of snoring

There's just so many ways to use it

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #halt o'carrick #kings of clonmel #I love it

[findingcrow]

I just realized that Will didn’t get the actual gathering experience for so long. His first one was interrupted by the Kalkaras, maybe he went to the second one, but his third? His fourth? The ones where he should have been celebrating, the ones where he should have been making friends and meeting the other rangers that he could have looked up to? He was in Skandia, forgetting everything because of warmweed. He was fighting in wars, battling enemies so much larger than him, and he was doing it almost entirely alone. He didn’t get to sing songs and show the other rangers his mandola, or yell to them Greybeard Halt, for at least 4 years. He barely got the full ranger experience until he was an adult.

#rangers apprentice #john flanagan #will treaty #ranger's apprentice #halt o'carrick #books #horace altman #gilan davidson #gatherings even though they’re meant to be professional always feel like family reunions and yet will only got that after almost dying like #five times #will treaty I’m so sorry #he deserved better #at least he had half #he did say that halt was family enough for anyone in kings of clonmel so #ok that’s all #thank you for coming to this ted talk

[rangertessadarling]

Horace: hold on! i'm having one of those things .... a headache with pictures

Halt: what?

Will: he's having an idea

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #the entirety of the kings of clonmel ^^ #I miss Horace’s stupid era #i mean i love that he acquired brain cells eventually but i liked it when he was dumb too #tessa's incorrect quotes

[solarishashernoseinabook]

yknow what scene i would've loved to see in kings of clonmel? halt and ferris stuck around waiting for whatever reason and falling back into an old childhood argument. it's about something that doesn't and never did matter but they get very intense about it and it just about comes to blows and will and horace are just there like ?????

#ra #rangers apprentice #kings of clonmel #halt o'carrick #ferris o'carrick #will treaty #horace altman

[xxlucyxlolaxx]

Halt and Will

"But Halt!" The tears gushed from Will's eyes, blinding him. "You can't die! You mustn't! How could I manage without . . ." Suddnely he was beyond speech and his body was racked with great sobs. The tears coursed down his face unheeded.

#rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #john flanagan #will treaty #halt o'carrick #kings of clonmel #halt's peril

[starburstsobsessions]

weird extremely unfinished conceptual not perfectly lining up with canon halts past comic that I may or may not finish. Mostly an excuse to draw castle bricks badly, some grayscale lighting, and his family.

words left unsaid and a murder left unfinished

#hmmm #if it’s halts sister or his momma is up to you to decide . Purposefully left up to interpretation #rangers apprentice #i just think he’s neat #halt o'carrick #kings of clonmel #or not #starbursts art #stars only look into her weird drawing process

[missterwild]

So, this just jumped into my mind, and now I feel the need to share it to you all beautiful people.

In books 8 and 9 (Kings of Clonmel and Halt’s Peril), we are introduced to the Outsiders and the fake gods of Alseiass, the Golden God, and Balseniss, the Dark God and enemy of Alseiass. But what if they were real gods in an ancient time?

Maybe they could’ve been gods of an ancient lost people, whose names were found by the first Outsiders, who decided to use them in their scam to get gold.

Alseiass could've been a god of day, light, peace, life and creation and Balseniss a god of night, darkness, war, death and destruction. And it's possible that, if this was real, they might not have been enemies, since opposites aren't necessarily enemies. They could've been brothers, friends, allies or even lovers.

This could add more depth to the Outsider "religion", since a few people might've heard of those long dead gods who were worshipped all these centuries ago and the leaders might try to use this fact to claim that their gods are real, to give themselves a bit more credibility.

Anyway, thanks for reading through this entire thing. Stay safe lovelies!

#ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice #Alseiass #Balseniss #Ra outsiders #kings of clonmel #halt’s peril #Wild’s ideas #Wild 🍁

[fandom--incorrect--quotes]

Halt: I've met a lot of pricks in my time, but you, Ferris, are a fucking cactus.

#halt #halt o'carrick #incorrect quotes #incorrect rangers apprentice #rangers apprentice #kings of clonmel #king ferris #rangers apprentice incorrect quotes #rangers apprentice memes

[angellcora]

Bf, reading ra#8: “the aftermath of battle was always a sobering sight…” Horace, you’re literally a mass murderer. Stfu.

Me: *bursts out laughing*

Him: what? I’m right. He did this.

#ranger’s apprentice #kings of clonmel #first reaction

[theoakleafpancake]

Okay but think about it:

Caitlyn hadn’t died yet by Kings of Clonmel, let’s just say that. So she still lives in the palace with Ferris.

Halt has to not only face his brother, but also his sister.

The one he thinks he abandoned. The one he thinks he left alone.

And when Caitlyn sees him, what if her thoughts align with his? What if a part of her does think of that, because for so many years she thought he was dead and turns out he’s been alive, and she never knew? She’s been mourning someone who didn’t need to be mourned.

And facing Caitlyn after all these years is suddenly much more frightening to Halt than facing the one who tried to kill him.

#rangers apprentice #john flanagan #o’carrick siblings #halt o’carrick #caitlyn o’carrick #ferris o’carrick #hello we’re back to angst again #because in kings of Clonmel halt says that he’s been running from this for too long #so he’s probably extremely guilty for abandoning his people and angry at himself for trying to forget about it #and if Caitlyn were alive then that would be so much worse #because he left her when she needed him #that’s what they both lowkey think #he would think he screwed up everything and there’s absolutely nothing he can do to fix it #because by now it’s too late #he lost ferris and now he might lose his sister too #the only one who ever cared about him in the first place

[iwanttobepersephone]

Getting 2 cause I forgot to post one last night lol

I'm just in a book 8 mood tonight lol

#funny #rangers apprentice #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice memes #kings of clonmel #will treaty #halt o'carrick #sean o'carrick

[ladymerlins]

Hey all, been a while since I posted. Just been really busy with some irl stuff and haven’t had the time, but I’ll try be more active these days. Anyway, since I made a post a while ago asking what y’all’s least favour RA book was, here’s another one asking what your favourite one is. For anyone who answers with Emperor of Nihon-Ja, I’ll give you a head pat, ok?

#rangers apprentice #ra poll #ask blog #hehe I’m back #thanks to my 5 followers who remained loyal during my 4 month break

[findingcrow]

headcanon that gilan, will, and horace made up a handshake as a joke during the burning bridge, but they continued to unironically do it when they saw each other. and they probably knew they wouldn't always have all three of them there, so they made part of it able to be done with only two people. when horace and will reunited in siege of macindaw? they did it. gilan and will reunite at the ranger gathering in kings of clonmel? they did it. they are just some silly guys with a silly handshake (crowley tried to get in on it, but they just called him old LMFAO, meanwhile halt rolls his eyes everytime he sees them do it)

#rangers apprentice #john flanagan #will treaty #halt o'carrick #ranger's apprentice #gilan davidson #horace altman #crowley #books #half of what i think about is this series someone help me #theyre just little guys #siege of macindaw #headcanon #headcannons #i hate them (affectionate) #ok im done talking now #i need to finish this book series someone yell at me if i dont