#thom of trebond

[morphmaker]

Song of the Lioness No. 14: Sorcerer's Sleep

#song of the lioness #roger of conté #tortall #thom of trebond #alexander of tirragen #delia of eldorne #josiane rittevon #thom #lioness rampant #duke roger #duke roger of conté #alex of tirragen #morphmaker arts

[isnt-it-pretty]

Fandom: Tortall, Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness

Rating: General

Catagory: Gen

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Thom of Trebond & Alanna of Pirates Swoop and Olau (of Trebond in the fic though)

Characters: Thom, Master Si-cham, The Black God

Additional Tags: Alternate universe canon divergence, temporary character death, Champion of the Black God Thom, Tusaine War

Summary:

Alanna dies; Thom isn't about to let that stand.

#fanfiction #my writing #tamora pierce #tortall #song of the lioness #tamora pierce fanfiction #thom of trebond

[where-our-stories-start]

Tortall Fancast Series - Thom of Trebond

As children, Thom and Alanna were so much alike in face and body shape as to be mistaken for each other, if dressed alike. The only distinguishing feature of the twins at that time was the length of their hair. Both were short and skinny, with copper hair and purple eyes. When Alanna visited him at age eighteen she commented on his beard and height, suggesting he grew up to be taller than her. (x)

Okay so I already know this from my ASoIaF blog, but damn, finding redheads in medieval clothes is hard. Also, canonically Thom died at 20, but it's hard to find teenage fancasts, so I've included some who are technically too old but fit the vibe.

KEREM AÇARSÖZ - SEHZADE SELIM (MAGNIFICENT CENTURY)

Açarsöz seems to be 8-10 years old, although I cannot find a birthdate for him. He plays a young Ottoman prince in Magnificent Century. It can be somewhat difficult to navigate footage if you don't speak Turkish, but all episodes are readily available online, mostly on youtube. Costume design is distinctly Ottoman, but some of it works as general medieval European.

GABRIEL AND TRISTAN HARLAND - YOUNG CNUT AND ESGAR (THE LAST KINGDOM)

So there's not much footage of either of these kids, and in at least 1/3 of it they've got knives held to their throats, but I included them because they're identical twins with great vibes for Thom and Alanna at the beginning of SotL. The only source for their age I could find puts them at 10-11 filming The Last Kingdom, and while I'm not sure how reliable it is, that looks about right.

YIGIT ÜST - SEHZADE SELIM (MAGNIFICENT CENTURY)

Üst plays an older version of Açarsöz's character on Magnificent Century. I couldn't find an age for him, but he seems to have been in his early/mid teens during filming. He's often in a turban, but when he's not, he's got great hair for Thom. He shares Thom's dignified-and-broody vibe, too, which I like.

RUAIRI O'CONNOR - HENRY VIII (THE SPANISH PRINCESS)

O'Connor was in his late 20s when filming The Spanish Princess. There is ample footage of him both clean-shaven and with a beard. Since he's playing a king, his clothes are mostly too lavish for Thom, but they can work if you pick your footage carefully, and Henry VIII definitely lends himself to Thom's mercurial nature.

EDDIE REDMAYNE - JACK JACKSON (PILLARS OF THE EARTH)

Redmayne was also in his late 20s in this role. His hair is more auburn than copper, although it varies by shot. Clothing is 12th century English, and Redmayne definitely has Thom's brooding vibe.

TOM HIDDLESTON - HAL/HENRY V (THE HOLLOW CROWN)

So Hiddleston's character in The Hollow Crown is basically nothing at all like Thom, but there are still moments the vibe feels right. He's a primary character in three episodes, so there's ample footage of him (both clean-shaven and with a short beard!) At roughly 30 during filming he's far older than Thom ever got, but I still like him as a fancast.

If you've got any additions, or any requests for other characters to do, please let me know! The full series can be found here.

#tortall #tamora pierce #tortall fancast series #thom of trebond #tortall fancasts #fancasting #request #anonymous #kerem açarsöz #gabriel harland #tristan harland #yigit üst #ruairi o'connor #eddie redmayne #tom hiddleston

[oh-no-its-bird]

Me??? Drawing fan art for Fate, show thy force by @rain-sleet-snow???? More likley than you think!

Thom’s purple fire burned Blayce’s finicky, merchant-neat clothing, but he was too battle-mad to care, and before Thom could block more effectively or cast a spell that would throw Blayce off him Blayce’s nails were tearing into the skin of his cheek, blood running freely down Thom’s face and over Blayce’s hand, and Thom could hear words from a nightmare, a spell he recognised from the oldest and most dangerous of the grimoires in the library of the City of the Gods, one that would trap him within his own body and turn all his Gift and all his power on his friends, his sister -

This isn't finished but honestly I was too excited ab how it came out to not post, and like, fuck you I do what I want!! And what I want is to post my fanart before it's actually done!!!

Take these finished pieces also tho

Fair warning there will be more bc Im on an art rampage rn and this fic is fueling it. It's an incredible read, and I fully recommend it to anyone and everyone -- whether you're a fan of Song of the Lioness or not, it makes fo4 a beautiful read. Snow's characterizations are incredible and every single character is so charismatic you find yourself falling in love the more and more you read.

God knows this is absoloutley my favorite version of Thom ever, I love that funky little bastard man and his frogs

Read the fic here

(Seriously, read it, it's amazing)

#fanart #birds art #song of the lioness #alanna the lioness #alana of trebond #thom of trebond #Delia of Eldorne #art #illustration #fanfic #fanfiction #birds recs #saphic #queer

[wondereads]

Tamora Pierce Marathon: In the Hand of the Goddess

I'm rereading every Tamora Pierce book (except Protector of the Small since I just reread it last year), and here's part two, In the Hand of the Goddess.

Song of the Lioness 1 2 3 4

In the previous part, I mentioned that the plot felt a little disjointed in the first book, and the second doesn't share that issue. There are two major problems: Alanna's gender and Duke Roger. Those two are fairly well intertwined since Alanna is hesitant to deal with Roger because of her own insecurities and worries about concealing her identity. It's a steady build, and the in-between is filled with all sorts of things, such as conflict with Tusaine and Alanna's own internal issues. My one gripe is that the climax feels a little rushed with Alanna just being like "might as well do this now."

This book is great for getting to know Thom. It's really the first time he appears beyond the very beginning of the first book, and I love how close he and Alanna are. Him designing her shield is such a nice detail. We also see how different Thom and Alanna are, and there's some of that pride of his, which, as people who have read this series know, will become incredibly important.

Also in character relationships, this book focuses a lot on Jon and George. This is where Alanna's romantic relationships really begin. Of course, I'm a wholehearted support of George; I find his unconditional care very sweet, if only he weren't like 23. Why couldn't he have been like 18, Tamora! In conjunction, Alanna is discovering her femininity. Alanna starts off rejecting everything womanly, but in the second book she comes to realize that she enjoys feminine things and feeling pretty. Simultaneously, she's quite rough-and-tumble, and her skills as a knight continue to develop. Women in fiction (especially in the 80s) are so often either warriors or princesses, but Alanna is both, and it's so important to see competent, combative women who also enjoy typically feminine activities.

Stay tuned for The Woman Who Rides Like a Man!

#books #tamora pierce #tamora pierce marathon #alanna of trebond #song of the lioness #in the hand of the goddess #george cooper #thom of trebond #jonathan of conte

[fiction-quotes]

“That is my decision. We need not discuss it,” said the man at the desk. He was already looking at a book. His two children left the room, closing the door behind them.

“He doesn't want us around,” the boy muttered. “He doesn't care what we want.”

“We know that,” was the girl's answer. “He doesn't care about anything, except his books and scrolls.”

The boy hit the wall. “I don't want to be a knight! I want to be a great sorcerer! I want to slay demons and walk with the gods – ”

“D'you think I want to be a lady?” his sister asked. “Sit still, Alanna.  Shoulders back, Alanna.” As if that's all I can do with myself!” She paced the floor. “There has to be another way.”

The boy watched the girl. Thom and Alanna of Trebond were twins, both with red hair and purple eyes. The only difference between them – as far as most people could tell – was the length of their hair. In face and body shape, dressed alike, they would have looked alike.

“Face it,” Thom told Alanna. “Tomorrow you leave for the convent, and I go to the palace. That's it.”

“Why do you get all the fun?” she complained. “I'll have to learn sewing and dancing. You'll study tilting, fencing – ”

“D'you think I like that stuff?” he yelled. “I hate falling down and whacking at things. You're the one who likes it, not me!”

She grinned. “You should have been Alanna. They always teach the girls magic – ” The thought hit her so suddenly that she gasped. “Thom. That's it!”

From the look on her face, Thom knew his sister had just come up with yet another crazy idea. “What's it?” he asked suspiciously.

Alanna looked around and checked the hall for servants. “Tomorrow he gives us the letters for the man who trains the pages and the people at the convent. You can imitate his writing, so you can do new letters, saying we're twin boys. You go to the convent. Say in your letter that you're to be a sorcerer. The Daughters of the Goddess are the ones who train young boys in magic, remember? When you're older, they'll send you to the priests. And I'll go to the palace and learn to be a knight!”

“That's crazy,” Thom argued. “What abour your hair? You can't go swimming naked, either. And you'll turn into a girl – you know, with a chest and everything.”

“I'll cut my hair,” she said. “And – well, I'll handle the rest when it happens.”

  —  Alanna: The First Adventure (Tamora Pierce)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #tamora pierce #tortall universe #the song of the lioness #alanna: the first adventure #alanna the first adventure #alan of trebond #alanna of trebond #thom of trebond #education #fighting #warriors #knights #magic #puberty

[thatsparrow]

Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thom of Trebond/Liam Ironarm Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Book: Lioness Rampant, Healing, Minor Suicide Ideation Word Count: 3,035

The battle is over—Roger is finally gone, and Thom's Gift along with him.

In the aftermath of Coronation Day, he's not the only one who's lost something.

#tamora pierce #song of the lioness #thom of trebond #liam ironarm #tortall #my fic #fully didn't expect my first tortall fic to be thom/liam but there was a very compelling prompt in rmse 2022

[lynx-q]

ametrine tumblestones

thom of trebond is supposed to die at the hand of duke roger. instead, he finds himself magically crippled and a stranger in a world full to the brim of strange, awe-inspiring monsters.

or: thom, as he recovers and studies and grieves, and the pokémon that worm their ways into his heart.

#lynx' ideas #ametrine tumblestones #pokemon #tortall #thom of trebond

[ur-fav-is-an-irregular]

alanna of pirate's swoop and olau & thom of trebond from song of the lioness are irregular counterparts!

requested by anon

#irregularposting #song of the lioness #alanna of trebond #thom of trebond

[the999thstar]

Listening to In The Hand of the Goddess for the first time in a while and I don't think I'd ever thought about how it was Thom who came up with Lioness Rampant. He didn't even consult her or knowing him didn't consult anyone. Just knew her well enough after all that time to show up with a shield and the Lioness already on it. He loved his sister so much. They loved each other so much.

#alanna the lioness #tortall #the trebond twins #in the hand of the goddess #straight up in made me cry #when he said #its a lioness rampant of course #fuck off #poor Thom #poor Alanna #it means so much that the nickname came from him honestly

[ace-trainer-risu]

a really good character type is a super powerful mage who is a little evil and also has mental illnesses and is fundamentally just a little creature. like yes they could and maybe will explode ur brain and they are committing untold arcane blasphemies but probably if someone hugged them they would immediately stop being evil.

#harrowhark nonagesimus is of course a truly perfect and iconic example of this species #but honestly i've been in love with this character type since i was like. ten. #ten year old me reading about raistlin dragonlance and being like wow....is he single? #normally this character type is like a tragic antagonist tho but taz muir was bold enough to be like #what if this character was the love interest to a herbo jock actually #things you didn't care to know about veronica #not 2 be tamora pierce-ing on main but thom of trebond is also definitely of this genre #numair is NOT. numair draper DNI. #obviously it goes without saying that this character type is of course queer. duh. obviously.

[morphmaker]

Song of the Lioness #9: Thom's true passion is graphic design

#alanna the lioness #alanna of trebond #song of the lioness #in the hand of the goddess #tortall #trebond #thom #thom of trebond #lord thom #lord of trebond #morphmaker arts

[isnt-it-pretty]

Fandom: Tortall, Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness

Rating: Teen+

Catagory: Gen

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Categories: Gen, M/M, F/M

Relationships: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Thom of Trebond, Alexander of Tirragen & Alanna of Trebond, Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & George Cooper, Alexander of Tirragen & George Cooper, Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Baird of Queenscove

Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau, Thom of Trebond, Alexander of Tirragen, George Cooper (Tortall), Gary of Naxen, Baird of Queenscove, Jonathan of Conté, Additional Song of the Lioness Characters, Roger of Conté

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Blind Character (not actually she's just visually impaired but ao3 doesn't have a tag for that), visually impaired author, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Past Child Abuse, Child Neglect (Alanna and Thom have Feelings over their father), Emotional Manipulation (via Roger), general warning for Roger of Conté being Roger of Conté

Summary:

Legends say that to have purple eyes means one is touched by the gods. To Alanna and Thom, all it means is that their eyesight has never been as good as it should be.

Unfortunately, both are true.

(AU where the twins are visually impaired.)

Here it is! The first (and second) chapter of my NaNoWriMo piece; the fic that's been bouncing around in my head for years.

#my writing #tamora pierce #alanna the lioness #song of the lioness #tortall #fanfiction #tamora pierce fanfiction #alexander of tirragen #thom of trebond #although Thom plays a smaller role in this fic than in his sequel #disabled characters

[where-our-stories-start]

Don't know if you're still doing fancasts, but I'd love to see one for Thom! (Read a really great au where he lives and <3)

Ooh, yeah... I haven't done any specific fancast posts in awhile, but I'm always on the lookout for good ones. Thom's hard because he needs to look just like Alanna, you know? But yeah, let me do some thinking...

#ask #anonymous #fancasting #tortall #thom of trebond

[oh-no-its-bird]

Thom’s purple fire burned Blayce’s finicky, merchant-neat clothing, but he was too battle-mad to care, and before Thom could block more effectively or cast a spell that would throw Blayce off him Blayce’s nails were tearing into the skin of his cheek, blood running freely down Thom’s face and over Blayce’s hand, and Thom could hear words from a nightmare, a spell he recognised from the oldest and most dangerous of the grimoires in the library of the City of the Gods, one that would trap him within his own body and turn all his Gift and all his power on his friends, his sister -

Anyways go read Fate, show thy force by @rain-sleet-snow its one of the best fics I've read in a while and absoloutley my favorite song of the lioness fic ever

#song of the lioness #thom of trebond #art #fanart #fic #fanfiction #ao3 #birds fic recs #birds recs #illustration

[checkoutmybookshelf]

The Quartet That Started It All

As followers of this blog will note, this is not actually the quartet that started it all for me, but it DID launch author Tamora Pierce's career in the 1980s, and Alanna remains absolutely beloved among Pierce's heroines. Let's talk the Song of the Lioness Quartet.

In a classic case of "if I can't do this as a girl, then I'll do this as a boy and I have a handy twin brother to go full Twelfth Night with," Alanna of Trebond begins The First Adventure by dressing as a boy to train as a page in Tortall's royal court. This book introduces all our main characters and establishes Alan the page amongst his peers and Alanna as she finds herself and her place in chivalry.

One of the other amazing things about Alanna's story overall is that she begins it absolutely terrified of her own magical gift. Her arc includes learning to work with her magic rather than to fear it, and that's a twist on magic users that I really appreciated. We often get overly confident magic users--indeed, we'll get TWO of them later in the series--but it's rare that we get magic users who are fully aware of their powers and are still absolutely terrified of them. So of course, the story and the world and Pierce herself keep throwing Alanna into situations where she has no choice but to develop and use her gift. It's so, so good. This first book covers Alanna's page years, and we move into her squire years in book two.

In the Hand of the Goddess really expands on Alanna's key relationship with Prince Jon on Conte, Duke Roger of Conte, and Geroge Cooper. Alanna moves into a wider world of adult politics and stakes in this book. From being able to defeat an older, stronger, and more experienced opponent in a duel to developing her healing skills when a wound puts her out of commission during a war, Alanna cements her skills, connections, and position in society. This culminates with unmasking Roger as an attempting regicide and the accidental reveal of her gender.

This book is really, really good, and extends Alanna's childhood fear of magic to her fear of Roger specifically in a really natural, logical way. I could say more about the details, but these two books have an episodic vibe to them, so I won't spend too much time exploring every single key plot event.

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man sees Alanna spending her first year as a knight in the desert, with a Bazhir tribe. She becomes their shaman by way of self-defense; she murders their first shaman when he tries to murder her for "being unnatural." Then it falls to Alanna to train three magic users for the tribe, and this is where we see more nuance into how different magic users relate to their powers, from sheer hubris to fear to "this is just part of me, let's do this." It's a phenomenal experience for Alanna, and she learns as much from her students as they do

Book three also sees Jonathan bitching to hell and back about having to be king, which is not a great look, and it's one Alanna calls him on. He spends most of the book alternating between pitching a hissy fit, begging Alanna to marry him, and training to take over as Voice of the Tribes. The interesting thing here is that Alanna refuses to marry Jon. He is trying to fit Alanna into his own fairy tale, and she very much goes "That isn't our relationship, I can't do that. We aren't meant to be like that, and that's ok." If I could inject that lesson into humanity's collective head, I would. It's well done and it's great.

Lioness Rampant picks up on Alanna's travels after she leaves the Bazhir, and eventually sees her return to Corus with a magical artifact to help secure Jonathan's position as king.

There's also the teeny tiny complication that Alanna's twin brother, Thom, has resurrected Duke Roger. Absolute chaos ensues, and Roger almost manages to take out the entire court during Jonathan's coronation. Nobody should have to kill an evil sorceror twice, but Alanna did.

If you want to dive into Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe, starting with Alanna is absolutely a good choice. These books hold a very soft spot in my heart, and they're never not engaging.

#tamora pierce #the song of the lioness #the first adventure #in the hand of the goddess #the woman who rides like a man #lioness rampant #alanna of trebond #jonathan of conte #ya fantasy #books & libraries #books and reading #books and novels #book recommendations #books