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Subterranean Press limited hardback editions of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.

A  song  about  Darujhistan.  Give  us  more!

— Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

Also, fuck my winter exams. 

-Sister Spite, Toll the Hounds

BEWARE  SPOILERS     BEWARE  SPOILERS Let’s  focus  on  two  scenes.  The  first  is  from  Reaper’s  Gale  and  the  second’s from  Toll  the  Hounds. 1)Reaper’s  Gale–>Seren  Pedac’s  chitchat  with  Mockra.  A  character  has  an  interesting  conversation  with  a  warren.  With  a  magic  system.  Not  with  an  animal,  or  a  tree,  or  a  bottle  of  beer.  She  conversates  with   a  damn…I  don’t  know…energy?  Magical  world  of  peoples’  thoughts?  Her  own  mind? And  it’s  not  her  imagination.  Chapters  later  she  mind-beats  Clip  into  a  bloody  pulp.  Who  else  can  imagine,think,  write  and  execute  in  paper  such  a  conversation?   It’s  like  a  Jedi  speaking  with  the  Force  (not  just  sensing  things  and  stuff,  but  actually  talk  with  about  the  contents  of  a  magazine).  It’s  like  a  Dragonlance  mage  speaks  with  the  moon  from  which  it  draws  power. Is  there  anything  like  it  in  some  other  book?  You  have  to  be  extremely  open-minded  (for  a  start)  in  order  to  come  up  with  something  like  that. 2)Toll  the  Hounds–>Kadaspala'a  ritual.      The  Tiste  Andii’s  spell  isn’t  just  the  muttering  of  some  words  and  the  waving  of  his  hands  in  a  specific  manner.  That  blind  lunatic  had  inscribed  upon  flesh  the  name  of  every  god,  godling,  ascendant,  spirit  that  ever  existed.  We  speak  of  billions  of  names  here.  And  not  only  that.  He  had  created  words  which  consist  of  words,  letters  that  their  parts  are  not  straight  lines  but  other  words  and  so  on.  The  scope  is  beyond  imagination. This  is  not  mere  spell-creation.  This  extends  to  origins-of-languages,  philosophy,  arithmology,  evolution  and  so  on. The  above  examples  show  what  a  fantasy  fiction  book/story  is  capable  of. The  possibilities  are  endless,  restrained  only  by  imagination.  And  me  Erikson proves  time  and  again  that  his  imagination  is  maddeningly  vast.  Thank  God!

Honestly? Darujhistan is lucky to be still standing… in a manner of speaking. (I mean, a lot of it isn’t, but, you know.)

very happy with how this turned out!

Anomander Rake, Soletaken form.

by Autumn Tavern.

And this is seriously just barely brushing the surface of this guy.

-> Dude was a golden-skinned blond or something back before the split of light and dark and stuff. Turns out black-skinned with quicksilver hair afterwards and looks no less bloody attractive. Yes this is superficial, no I don’t care. Guy’s a freaking supermodel and he knows it.

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Rallick and Murillio sketch after finishing the ‘Toll the Hounds’.

“Toll the Hounds” Subterranean Press Edition (Illustrations by Marc Simonetti)

I’m done Toll the Hounds and can I get just one book where the end doesn’t make me die a little, too?