#wyrmroost

[mushramoo]

som dragons from wyrmroost I drew, both the old and new model for the dragonfruit drake ^^ I’m very excited for the mod to update

#I was pretty happy w how they came out #maybe I will add them to my comm page #wyrmroost #dragons #dragon art #alpine #minecraft #minecraft mod #minecraft mods #minecraft post #Minecraft art

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood world #poll #fablehaven #wyrmroost #the castle of macindaw #the ranger's apprentice #araluen #bayern #the books of bayern #the land of stories

[random-tinies]

The alpine dragon is soooo pretty <3 <3

#vinekeeper #wyrmroost #minecraft #vorecraft #cw vore #internal #internal shot #swallow #sfw vore #g/t #g/t vore #piglin oc #piglin #alpine dragon #dragon vore #gulping #original character #my posts #random arts

[snowfoxorca]

Minecraft Photo Dump

Green the Butterfly Leviathan on his dock (rip Green, Ice and Fire Sea Serpents are nasty) 

Bach the Lobster (rip Bach, Creepers are terrible)

Ellie the Albino Rooststalker

Anya the SilverGlider

Ellie snoozin’ on my bed

Harrison the Butterfly Leviathan + Eeny, Meeny, and Miny the Rooststalkers

Orbital the Cockatrice hen and Optic the Cockatrice rooster

Frog the Overworld Drake

Mods in the images: Wyrmroost, Alex’s Mobs, and Ice and Fire

Version is 1.16.5

#Wyrmroost #Ice and Fire #Minecraft #Butterfly Leviathan #Overworld Drake #Cockatrice #Rooststalker #SilverGlider #Screenshots #long post

[quihi]

The Caretaker's Guide to Fablehaven also throws in its two cents about the position of caretaker of Wyrmroost and if Celebrant was supposed to get it. This book has a letter from Stan, to Kendra and Seth, which says "Celebrant gained control of the sanctuary" and that Agad asked Stan to temporarily function as joint-caretaker. Stan was then asking Kendra and Seth if they would be willing to join him and help prevent Wyrmroost from falling.

So, we get a different version of the plan that doesn't seem to line up with what was actually written into Dragonwatch. Stan was to have the visible position of caretaker, rather than his grandchildren. It's vague on what Agad's status was at this time, whether he was formally joint caretaker or whether the position was briefly unoccupied and Celebrant was sole caretaker.

#i assume someone wrote this up years ago but alas i wasn't here so i'm writing it down now #to at least refer back to for myself #fablehaven #dragonwatch #fablehaven meta

[climbhighsisyphus]

First thoughts?

The cookbook is really nice and it has a cute little short story involving Tess and Knox. It really just shows them both at Fablehaven which is something we really didn’t get in Dragonwatch…

I will say though, Seth and Kendra are not featured but are mentioned once if you were interested in those two! They are both busy at Wyrmroost apparently.

The recipes seem pretty easy but I’d have to test them myself to see, which probably won’t be for a week or two due to my recovery.

I will say, some of these look AMAZING, and almost every single character besides some endgame ones get their own little recipes. It’s really adorable.. I don’t think I can share the recipes, but I think I can share photos of what they are in the cookbook.

Safe to say, the fairy bread and Brackens milkshake/smoothie might kill me. They’re both really cute looking but I might die if I consume them which I’m a bit scared to try them in the future but we ball..

Seth’s food also looks absolutely amazing? And it’s a really easy recipe because let’s be honest, he probably can’t cook for the life of him. It’s just a peanut butter sandwich with banana and Nutella, and I’ve had that in the past and I can say from like a standard view, it’s pretty good and I recommend trying it (Apparently you can put potato chips and cereal with it, which,,, is unique to say the least!)

Kendra’s treat looks also amazing, it’s just Chocolate-covered krispies but it’s still pretty good looking, I’m definitely gonna try this one. This one also just has such a cozy feeling to it because of the little description they added which involves Kendra just letting the brownies make them late at night as it storms.. which, Seth doesn’t have that, it’s just a very short description on how he thinks peanut butter goes with everything.

Besides that, Kendra’s is very sweet and silly and I feel it goes with her character amazingly.

Hugo also has a recipe, it’s mudslide ice cream cake which seems so good? I’m definitely gonna try it when I’m able to as well.

Grandma Larsen also has cute little unicorn cookies and they’re genuinely so adorable looking, I would in fact, take a chunk out!

Aside from the recipes, the cookbook is really nice and it has a cute design on the inside upon opening it and I stared at it for a bit because the neurons in my brain were processing every little design there…The cookbook has such a silly design and feel to it and if you’re into baking as well as the series, it’s a cool thing to collect and also use if you ever wanna make a cool and unique looking treat for you or your family or friends! It’s your average cookbook but to me at the least it’s very sweet.

(PS: the hotdogs have little eyes on them and I couldn’t resist sharing a photo because they’re so cute)

#fablehaven #dragonwatch #cookbook #book review #the sillies… #Knox #Tess #fablehavencookbook

[zzyzxtourguide]

I am wheezing but I think you genuinely have me stumped here

I can only imagine the playground being one of the places where the artifacts were hidden

Maybe even Wyrmroost or that place where Seth lost his memories

Someone save this girl she’s been through too much for this to be narrowed down—

#brandon mull #fablehaven #dragonwatch #fantasy #kendra sorenson #seth sorenson #fablehaven characters #fablehaven meme #plEase- #please tell me she’s seemed therapy she has seen too much

[thinklikeseth]

Dragonwatch is such a chaotic book for Seth. He goes and brings a wraith to the Singing Sisters, meets a big nipsie who appeared in his room overnight, runs away from an ogre and is barely saved by Hugo, becomes a caretaker of Wyrmroost, Flys away from dragons on a griffin

like my boy doesn't catch one break

I mean half of those are his fault but

#seth sorenson #brandon mull #dragonwatch #fablehaven #fhdw

[lunar-lurker]

my favorite tiny moment was technically in dragon watch but I still love it

It's when Kendra goes to speak to the great fairy living at wyrmroost to get wings for the animals and Kendra's like

'well I like this guy..'

'really who?'

' oh his name is Bracken'

'ugh boring everyone likes bracken 🙄'

'yeah well I'm pretty sure he likes me too'

'and whys that?'

'Cause he gave me this' *whips out brackens first horn*

(paraphrased because of all the things I possess a perfect memory is not one)

Skjsjssolssk sorry it took me literal months to get back to this

Anyway, this is a really fun moment! I like the implication that Bracken is the Every Teenage Girl's Celebrity Crush of the magical world. I wonder how many people have approached him in the past... were they perhaps previous fairykind?? 👀

Thanks so much for the response!

#fablehaven #dragonwatch #this was from the 'what's your favorite moment?' question

[a-dip-in-the-source]

Actually it would be incredibly funny if Gavin had to transform before he got a good opportunity to betray the group at Wyrmroost. He can't take on the dungeon by himself so he's stuck trying to speech 100 his way through convincing everyone that either he isn't Navarog he just looks incredibly similar, OR that he is big brain play double crossing for the knights of the dawn.

#fablehaven #dragonwatch #fablehavenflitting #navarog #I bet you Seth would believe him #he would be in the perfect position in the timeline to be like #yeah he is a demon dragon who is responsible for the plague at fablehaven #but maybe he's cool now guys 🥺

[snatcher-kid]

OH GOSH OH PE- Wyrmroost is a fun mod, guys.

Also hello.

The skin of the Prince from my SnatcherKid AU was created by the lovely @princessinfluenza a very long time ago. I hope you’re doing well, friend. c:

Edit.. Heckin, tag fail. Sorry ‘bout that rrrr

#ahit #ahit the prince #ahit the snatcher #minecraft #dragons #modded minecraft #also #legit lost my email for this blog for a bit #BUT IT'S OK #I FOUND IT #HAHAHAHA

[abittersweetraisin]

I’ve finished Dragonwatch!

This post is about my thoughts on the final book of the series so if you haven’t finished it, then do not keep reading.

First of all I’ve got to say how glad I am that Seth neither died nor became an undeath. I had thought he was gone for good. Another thing that I had feared is that someone was gonna use the Unforgiving Blade to chop off at least one of his wings. I’m so happy that he got to keep them! 😁

Personally I prefer a story that surprises me, where I don’t know where the author is taking us, where I think the story will go in one direction but then it takes a different one.

There was a moment when I thought they were going to use the Wizenstone to create a pocket dimension for dragons to live in. A place where they would be free without the risk of them wanting to attack the rest of the world. 

I like the canon solution better because a pocket dimension could had ended up seen as just a bigger sanctuary. A bigger prison in the eyes of the dragons.

About Ronodin. The way they defeated him made sense, but it felt a bit too quick for me. Then again, the series was about dragons so it follows Mr. Mull didn’t want to spend more time on the dark unicorn. 

A part of me would had wanted redemption for Ronodin. When Lizelle told Kendra about Ronodin’s story, it seems as if in the beginning his only sin was being different, thinking different. And that itself isn’t bad. The bad came when he started making evil decisions. As he said back in book… 2?  He liked seeing light being turned to darkness. I guess that alone makes it hard for him to be worthy of redemption. *sigh*

Still, I do have a weakness for characters that behave all evil but in reality have good deep inside of them. And I love reading/seeing that kind of characters going good. Healing that part of them that made them bad. And… maybe this is a bit weird in me, but I love them more if they become good but retain a bit of “evil” attitude. Sortof like Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent. 

Knox. Oh, Knox. 🙈 I really deeply disliked this character. I think he has some little bits in common with Seth here and there. Like for example, back in Fablehaven, Seth too had a period where he wanted gold. But Seth grew out of that and matured. But Knox… He hurt Newel but it was like he got no remorse about it at all. Till the end he still wanted to get a sword. Ok, his personality was being worsened by the Giant Queen’s crown when he hurt Newel, but after he took the crown off he should had understood that swords are not toys. I know there’s people in real life who are like that, who never learn, but that fact hasn’t helped me in disliking him less. 

And his bragging, “The Underking asked for my opinion back when I was Giant King”. 🙈🙈🙈 Please, somebody do something. Go get Mortimer Folchart and throw… I don’t know. Medusa in Knox’s way. 

Oh, and his rubbing on Seth’s face that it was Seth’s fault the fall of Wyrmroost and the start of the dragon war. Come on, that was very not nice and very unfair. Seth didn’t have his memories, Ronodin convinced him that he was doing something good. If he hadn’t gotten kidnapped the fall of Wyrmroost would had been different. And whose fault was it that Ronodin got the barrel which enabled Seth’s kidnapping?? How easily Knox forgot that. 

By the way, I had really believed that the Somber Knight was going to actually be Konrad,… I didn’t read Fablehaven again when I started Dragonwatch, so, maybe there was something written there that could had helped me throw away that theory, but,…. well, it was nice to play detective. 😅

To finish this… I don’t know you, but the ending left me wanting to read more about this world. Not another war. I’d like something different. Like maybe Kendra, Bracken and Seth dealing with the difficulties of their daily lives mixed with their new powers. Kendra got some incredible powers that I wish we had gotten the chance to see! I don’t know, maybe reading them doing good around them while hiding their powers/secrets from their friends. 

I can see Seth rapidly sneaking back into an empty classroom. Hiding his wings just in time before his friends enter the room and saw them. 

- “Wha- Seth, where did you come from?!”   -  “What do you mean? I’ve been here all along?” 

And before anyone has a chance to say anything else a white feather slowly floats its way down in front of Seth. All eyes tracking the descend till it reaches the floor. Their eyes jumping back to Seth who just smiles awkwardly. 

#dragonwatch #brandon mull #fablehaven #kendra sorenson #seth sorenson #bracken #bracken the hornless unicorn #ronodin the dark unicorn #reading #book

[best-childhood-book]

if no one's submitted it yet, fablehaven and wyrmroost from fablehaven, and the imagine nation from jack blank

Just making sure, Wyrmroost is not included in Fablehaven (the setting), right? Added in the meantime :)

#ask #submission #fablehaven #jack blank adventures

[danzinora-switch]

You know what? I’m not done. 

More takes from my rereading of Fablehaven:

- Mara. There’s never enough to say about her, she’s such a badass. Probably my biggest fist pump moment was in book 5 when she’s leading them through the Dreamstone “staying oriented is my biggest strength”. Girl, I RELATE. I have a pretty good sense of navigation myself, taken from my dad. It was so awesome to see it treated akin to a superpower in a book.

- Nero’s massage in book 1 was so well-described I have actually given other people massages based on those methods. And received many compliments.

- Newel and Doren! Likable from the very beginning. I love Grandpa Sorenson vs Patton’s approach to satyrs - Grandpa mentions work to get them to go away, Patton mentions sport to get them to work. But these guys come all the way to Zzyzx, and THAT counts for a lot.

- I’m still on the fence about leaving Dale in a safehouse at Fablehaven. On the one hand, yeah, he is not the adventure dude. On the other hand - he braved the inverted tower alongside Tanu and Coulter. Broke both his legs, but he still went. And he full-on tackled a dark satyr in book 3 so that the others could make it to the pond. And let’s not forget about the shotgun. I feel like the battle at Zzyzx would be a bit different if Dale was there with his shotgun.

- Warren is still my favorite character. He really sticks his neck out for others, even when it gets repeatedly chopped. He leads the way through the inverted tower, through the vault at Lost Mesa, is the one-man rescue mission at Living Mirage, and truly gives every task his all. The description of Neil’s death is especially potent. Gosh, it gets you, but you also see how Warren reacts. He guided every single person through the chokepod cave and Neil was the only one who didn’t make it. And he punches a wall so hard his knuckles bleed. He really cares. And he’s also on Seth’s side, essentially sneaking him into Wyrmroost. Seth really needed an ally and Warren understands. Plus, he’s funny. 

- Maddox the fairy broker. Cool guy, been through hell. As a kid, fairy brokering made sense to me. Yeah, this is a world of magical creatures. Creatures. But on the reread I have so many ethical questions.

- The description that they watched the demon horde poor out of Zzyzx and into the fairy realm for THREE HOURS is what really sold the ‘horde’ for me. That truly is a massive amount of demons, and yeah, there is no hope of fighting that.

- I love unique solutions to big problems. Like slaying Siletta the poison dragon with a unicorn horn. Or the Russian Doll key/vault for the Translocator. Or the pod for Seth surviving Olloch the Glutton. It all just fits very nicely.

- The Sphinx is such an interesting antagonist. He is so PATIENT and that’s what’s made him so dangerous. It’s unique for a bad guy, in my opinion, but it’s largely what makes Graulus completely shuffling the deck so important. There was no other way out of the Sphinx’s plan. It was also interesting seeing him there as an ally at the battle of Zzyzx, and I think his punishment is fitting, though a part of me still agrees with Vanessa. 

- I think what makes Coulter’s death hit harder is that we see it from Seth’s POV. Kendra has watched several people die: she sees Errol taken down by a panther, Tammy flung off a cliff, hears Neil die then has to crawl past his liquefying corpse, witnesses Dougan get eaten, Gavin/Navarog get eaten... by the time Vincent is dying beneath the ice it’s no wonder she feels numb, and that they just need to keep moving there’s no saving him. Seth, on the other hand. Seth witnesses “Kendra” “die” which is ROUGH, but then he quickly learns that she’s still alive. Vincent is his first death, but he disappears out of sight and we also just met the guy. But Coulter... Coulter dies in his arms. And he’s not a stingbulb, he’s really dead. And we’ve known him since book 2. No wonder it hits Seth hard. No wonder he feels like this is the worst mistake he has ever made. These kids are traumatized, and the story doesn’t skimp over those details. They all have major trust issues by book 5. Kendra’s having nightmares. Seth is sadder, and more brooding. They save the world and it looks like they’ll heal with a happy ending, but they did go through some dark stuff and it left its mark.

- The concept of the Quiet Box forever fascinates me. Since I’m pretty sure it pauses aging (Kendra’s stingbulb is able to live for more than 3 days inside it) there is one other person from the Sphinx’s history alive - the jailer’s assistant whom he had put inside to free Nagi Luna. That poor guy whenever he gets out. 

Will probably have more, frankly.

#fablehaven

[tornadodyke]

Knox closed his eyes and rubbed them, trying to banish the worries. He had volunteered for this! What was the matter with him? He had come to Wyrmroost on purpose! What had he been thinking?

It had seemed magical and cool. He had wanted to help Seth and Kendra, but did he really have anything to contribute? He had reasoned that anything Seth could do, he could do, no problem.

Wasn’t that true? Wasn’t he just as good as Seth? Or better?

Knox wasn’t so sure anymore.

Seth could ride a flying horse through skies full of ghosts like it was normal. Seth stared down wraiths and entered cursed castles and didn’t crack under enormous pressure.

Knox resolved that he wouldn’t crack either. Even if he should. Even if he was in way over his head.

my toxic dragonwatch trait is that actually i could get behind knox and tess as characters if they were just fleshed out and allowed to develop a bit instead of being thrown in there half-assedly because this bit right here is sooooo good. it highlights the fundamental differences between seth and knox in that despite being the same age seth has so much more experience with the dangers of the magical world and knox just can’t keep pace with him. ESPECIALLY with seth being a shadow charmer and knox fundamentally being Just Some Guy who happens to be cousins with the main characters. like knox is jealous! he’s thirteen! he’s acting his age! versus seth in other examples who gets very visibly exasperated with knox acting his age because he’s been grappling with adult responsibilities for too long. it sets up suuuuuch a good contrast that was fundamentally kind of ruined because of shitty writing. but i could totally fix it. there’s a good version that lives in my head

#like later in the books where knox is bragging about killing a demon to some girls and seth is off actively being like. I Want To Die. #very funny contrast to me. love it #fhdwposting

[quihi]

Okay, overall thoughts on Fablehaven and Dragonwatch. I hope to write in more detail later - I have a first draft of a post about my take on some of the religious themes and allegory in Dragonwatch - but I gotta start somewhere (that requires less citations).

I saw Carnival Quest on the library shelf last November, read that, and had so much fun I decided to go for more Brandon Mull and reread Fablehaven. (I don't read a lot of kids books, as an adult, but I hadn't felt like reading in awhile and this made reading fun.) The first book was rough, honestly—it was his first published book and it shows. The prose felt clunky and awkward, but I got used to it and it improved. Seth drove me insane—so much of the plot was driven by "Seth screws up." But it was a quick and easy and fun read, and the world and concept were a delight!

Books 2–4 were great. I only read the books once or twice over ten years ago, so all I remembered was the general concept, a little about Kendra and Seth, and a vague idea of the final battle. I got to experience all the twists again! It was very fun to see the people who populate this increasingly large world, and the people around the edges like that rich couple in Georgia who have fairies but have never seen a preserve. Like, how did they get involved, how much do they know? It's clear that Kendra and Seth are way more deeply involved than someone who just discovered the preserves normally would be. I have a lot of thoughts about their parents and how Fablehaven fits in with their lives, and I think I think about that a lot more as an adult—it doesn't bother me but I find it more sad now.

Keys to the Demon Prison was big, and wow did we see the world. It added a lot of stuff that hadn't felt foreshadowed at all—the Eternals, Vasilis, Bracken—so it felt a little disconnected and like there were some deus ex machina. I liked the ending, though, and how everything wrapped up with swapping the demon prison and the fairy realm.

So, fun series! They definitely felt like kids books, but I would still recommend them to kids and adults who want to read a fun, magical adventure.

After this, life got busy, and I needed a break, and time to let the books sink in and read a few other books, so I didn't start Dragonwatch until January. I raced through the first three books, then took about a week off before I could get myself past the beginning of Champion of the Titan Games, then finished the series in under a week. They got so frustrating and dark that I needed that break, but I'm glad I didn't force myself to keep reading when I was worn out.

Okay, look, I know this seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed them. I don't know if it helped because I read them all in under a month and didn't think too hard or reread them in between, and I hadn't been eagerly awaiting them—I don't think much about Mull or keep up with his new books. I didn't notice a lot of the continuity errors that I guess were there, though I did notice the big thematic change from darkness being neutral to being more evil (though I have some thoughts on that, too). There were definitely some weird choices. The structure of book five felt very similar to Fablehaven's book five.

I liked Knox and Tess. I see reasons they would be introduced, and while they could have done more (Tess: spends entire series as the innocent girl, gets teleported around a couple times but never to anywhere from which she can get home), I couldn't help liking them. They're decent foils for Kendra and Seth, at least. I think I'd have liked more of them, over cutting them. I badly wanted Knox and Seth to sit down for a good conversation about mistakes and forgiveness.

One of the story choices that baffled or irritated me most was not putting Marat or Agad back in charge of Wyrmroost, after Celebrant lost his status. I guess the best argument is there wasn't time between them returning from Stormguard Castle and Seth's disappearance, and the explicit consent of both Kendra and Seth was needed, but like, that should have been the first thing they did. I guess no one thought of it. And I suppose there was still the issue of no easy way to leave.

There was a lot of religion, which I began to notice in Master of the Phantom Isle, and was surprisingly blatant in Return of the Dragon Slayers. Religious themes in books don't bother me, though I know that's a YMMV topic and I understand why some people don't like it. (Thank you to the Fablehaven fandom for, as far as I can tell, not getting into absolute hatred of Christianity.) But, well, they were still overall the fun adventures that I was reading for, even as they got more sad and the character arcs got deeper. I'm glad I finished and read through the whole series.

I was left with a lot to think about. I have ideas for fanfiction. Mostly canon compliant, set after Dragonwatch, with some earlier, and also one romance AU that I'm worried about people's reactions to the ship. I'm buying a lot of the books to reference more easily, since I like referencing books when I write and I'm no longer twelve years old with the time and urge to flip through and reread books a dozen times until I know every plot point by heart by the time I return them to the library, but I do have more disposable income.

So, uh, I'm not really one to rate books, but I'd still call these solid and fun overall, though they have their flaws. I far prefer enjoying books to criticizing them, so I'd rather like them and try to find ideas and headcanons that improve them, rather than linger on the elements I dislike. I want to be positive!

#fablehaven #dragonwatch