#the traitor baru cormorant

[psrj]

the imperial accountant baru cormorant, and the duchess of vultjag

#the traitor baru cormorant #the masquerade #baru cormorant #tain hu #my art #fan art #character design #i recently rediscovered my literacy #so i read this whole series in two weeks and i think it's both kinda phenomenal and very flawed #but fundamentally just very interesting in almost every aspect #i had a great time #not gonna apologise for the niche fan art lol #utterly obsessed with baru btw #character of all time

[ancientannoyance]

And Baru cast the first dart at hand, the words that set the coopers and the fishmongers and the bannermen of Lyxaxu and Oathsfire and Unuxekome roaring: “Show them who should rule Aurdwynn, and why.” Vultjag! the poorer parts of the crowd screamed, a raw astonished sound. Vultjag!

#this was tain hu's wet shirt darcy scene i fear #i was rereading this book I FORGOT HOW FUCKING GOOD IT IS AND THIS FUCKIGN SCENE DKHGDFG #TAIN HU DUCHESS VULTJAG THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE #the traitor baru cormorant #baru cormorant #tain hu #the masquerade #seth dickinson #my art #fanart #the traitor baru spoilers

[twofoursixohjuan]

#DAMN #i mean...DAMN #the masquerade #baru cormorant #the traitor baru cormorant #FUCK #i won't be functioning for a while

[darling-child-tisarwat]

she’s sexy she’s a loser she’s the most cunning woman on the planet she sucks she’s drunk as shit she’s going to steal your girl she’s bad at dancing she’s going to destroy us all

#baru cormorant #the traitor baru cormorant

[booksandchainmail]

Near the end of part 1 of The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Baru spends time in a tavern arguing about whether power lies in money or in the familial ties of nobility with an "actress", who it later becomes clear was in fact the Duchess Nayaru. Her act slips quite a bit throughout this conversation as she describes who she would make of herself an empress, but Baru misses it completely because she is very, very drunk.

As an extra hint for the observant reader, the scene begins by noting that the actress looks enough like Baru to be her sister: a couple of chapters ago, Baru was stopped by Duke Pinjagata on suspicion of being Nayauru, and he mentioned their strong resemblance.

While Nayauru (correctly) notes that Baru pays no attention to the personal lives and motivations of the Aurdwynni nobility, she gives examples:

"Do you know the story of Xate Olake's marriage to Tain Ko? Could you tell me why Heingyl Ri has only one living cousin, and who it is? Can you name the dukes who lost all their children in the Fools' Rebellion?" Baru brushed the challenge away. "Touching stories, I'm sure. I'm not a playwright. If it mattered, I would learn." "You rule a nation of the bereft. That matters. It changes how we think."

The first example is important because it is one of the breadcrumbs laid out to establish the background existence of Tain Shir. The third, I'm not so sure about: maybe as I reread I'll find further references to exactly which dukes this refers to. But the second:

"Heingyl's daughter handles his accounts. She likes to stay in debt to the Fiat Bank, as a kind of bond of trust." "Oh. Interesting. Maybe that's why she wanted my job. Who's her mother?" "One of the sisters of the last Duchess Nayauru, I believe. Didn't survive the Fool's Rebellion."

Heingyl Ri's only cousin is Nayauru herself, and she is the only one living because the rest of her family died in the Fools' Rebellion. Baru brushes aside as trivia the fact the woman she is speaking to, who holds a quarter of Aurdwynn and dreams of empire restored, lost her entire family to the Masks.

But there is even another layer: Nayauru, the "actress", is in the bar at the recommendation of her cousin. Heingyl Ri, who Baru consistently dismisses in the first two books as a potential actor in her own right, is the one who sent Nayauru Dam-Builder to judge the Imperial Accountant while she was vulnerable.

#baru cormorant #the traitor baru cormorant #heingyl ri #the masquerade

[arianwells]

"My name's Baru," she said, as names were gladly given on Taranoke. "Baru Cormorant, because a cormorant was the only thing that made me stop crying."

#baru cormorant #the traitor baru cormorant #the masquerade #my lines #digital art #it was supposed to be mango nevermind haha

[shootingst4rpress]

tricking myself into doing face practice by making it about the fantasy dykes haunting my brain. had a lot of fun with these designs weeee

#the masquerade #the traitor baru cormorant #baru cormorant #tain hu #ellis’s art

[mayticks-art]

kuye lam

#mayticks #the traitor baru cormorant

[anthyies]

long time no mx accountant yuri

#esha.txt #mycreations #baru cormorant #every time i get frustrated with my art i paint a baru in an hour flat with a random selfie as reference #the traitor baru cormorant #the monster baru cormorant #the tyrant baru cormorant #the masquerade #man it’s kind of embarrassing to post my barus that are brazenly based off selfies of me My best friend saw one i posted on twitter and was #like omg it looks like you YEAH. SORRY

[mysticallilac]

i feel like i should just go and make a discord server for all those fantasy wlw books whose fandoms aren't big enough for a server on there own

so... if there's anyone interested in helping me moderate it-

#criers war #crier x ayla #the jasmine throne #priya x malini #the traitor baru cormorant #tain hu x baru #she who became the sun #apparently i haven't read it yet #gearbreakers #sona x eris #the gilded ones #these feathered flames #the hollow heart #the priory of the orange tree #girls of paper and fire #this is how you lose the time war #fireheart tiger #gideon the ninth #griddlehark #red x blue #ead x sabran #sweet and bitter magic #the final strife

[ash-and-starlight]

my “if something bad happened to them i’d kill everyone in the room and then myself” gang from the masquerade series (…..yeah i’m still in denial over [redacted] shut up)

#id in alt text #alternatively: baru and some of the ppl whose lives she fucked up 🤪 #alternatively (2): mentally unstable blorbini from my books <3 #seth dickinson i’m in your walls #myken i’m Also in your walls i’m going to send u the therapist bill since you’re the one who convinced me to suffer so much 😤 #i want to be clear that something bad happens to these characters Constantly #lgbt stands for laundering grifting bankruptcy taxes #aminata #iraji #tau-indi bosoka #tain hu #baru cormorant #svirakir #the traitor baru cormorant #the monster baru cormorant #the tyrant baru cormorant #the masquerade #my art

[3bagshotrow]

the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien // my tears ricochet, taylor swift // the handmaid's tale, margaret atwood // the return of the king, peter jackson // the traitor baru cormorant, seth dickinson // gollum’s song, emilíana torrini // the return of the king, peter jackson // giovanni's room, james baldwin // tumblr user ryebreadgf // the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien // "thomas wolfe was right: you can't go home again," jonathan look (forbes) // the return of the king, peter jackson

#as you can see i am incredibly normal about the ending of rotk #web weaving #lotr #lord of the rings #return of the king #rotk #frodo baggins #jrr tolkien #my tears ricochet #the handmaid's tale #peter jackson #the traitor baru cormorant #gollum's song #giovanni's room #mp

[comfiecore]

The tide comes in. The Throne’s man watches her, waiting for her to lift her eyes and make a census of the birds.

#my art #baru cormorant #the traitor baru cormorant

[queer-media-tourney]

#polls #queer media #queer #hannibal #the traitor baru cormorant #queer media tourney

[vivacious-bones]

The Locked Tomb and The Masquerade series’s got it right- being a lesbian is just sacrificing yourself for the person you Simp for, getting lobotomized, and sharing a soul with your loved ones <3

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #wlw books #the traitor baru cormorant #the masquerade #the L in LGBT is for Lobotomies #LGBT+ but it’s Lobotomies God complex Betrayal and Tyrrany #the + is for girl kissin <3

[blujaymi]

hello again locked tomb fandom. read the masquerade series by seth dickinson pretty pleaseee :'))

#ive been in fandom limbo but the problematic gay accountant saved me #wonderful books #im about halfway through tyrant right now and i dont want it to end :( #the locked tomb #the masquerade #the traitor baru cormorant #gideon nav #tain hu #my art