Greenwhistler

THE EGGS YOU GAVE ME ALL DIED AND YOU LIED TO ME SO I DID THE IMPLANTATION MYSELF YOU SELF-SERVING ZOMBIE

My mother used the resultant power to modify her ovum on a chromosomal level, so thanergy ignition wouldn’t compromise the embryo. She did this so I would be a necromancer.

hello piranesi nation!! here are my designs for the narrator!

drawing his different “selves” was a really fun challenge. even though the narrator is fundamentally the same person throughout the whole novel, his presentation obviously changes a lot.

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Civilian Dulcie tried to break cover and is also shot.

Marta, a Cohort lieutenant, is armed and ready nearby. It would have been entirely reasonable for Magnus — a bureaucrat with no combat experience — to leave her to it. Harrow assumes he's hiding with his wife.

@schizononagesimus There's a rather long discussion about what Magnus actually does as a cavalier here.

Marta gets powerups from Judith sucking all the thalergy out of people. Babs gets eaten for powerups for his necromancer(s). Jean's role would be to defend Isaac on the battlefield so we can keep the corpsesplosions coming. Colum gets shoved into hell to power up Silas.

Maybe Magnus sits alongside Cam and Pro as having a more generally caring and administrative role, regardless of any specific sword skills.

But what interests me is the possibility that he does have a specific role in supporting Abigail's necromantic practice.

When Abigail is trying to summon Nonius, she echoes (at times word for word) the necromantic ritual Odysseus does in book 11 of the Odyssey to summon the ghost of Tiresias. But if the Odyssey is anything to go by, the things you do to attract the attention of one ghost will attract lots of hungry, angry ghosts. And the ancient understanding of ghosts is that they are not incorporeal: they do literally drink the blood, and you can literally hit them with a sword:

And I myself drew my sharp sword from beside my thigh and sat there, and would not suffer the powerless heads of the dead to draw near to the blood until I had enquired of Teiresias. (Odyssey 11.49-50)

Because if we're going with the nekiya in the Odyssey, it doesn't seem to entail being martial: the drawn sword in itself appears to be sufficient to scare off the ghosts.

Odysseus even has a friendly chat with a recently deceased friend, but is careful to keep his sword drawn the whole time to keep the ghost of that friend from drinking the blood before Tiresias arrives.

We know spirit callers aren't physically going into the River. So the cavalier standing guard could be mostly symbolic. Or it could be intended to deter anything that hasn't been invited from making an appearance - objects can be warded, so you probably could give a sword some inherently repellent properties.

Harrow notes that ghost callers' wards are dangerously slow because of their complexity - so having an additional deterrent or a lookout is probably sensible, even if rarely needed in day to day practice.

"YOUR MOTHER █████████████ IN THE RIVER"

"That seems very unlikely as when I spoke to her on Tuesday she was very much alive, and I wouldn't say that's quite her style."

Friendly wave at the backup exorcist, who is hurriedly redrawing the chalk circle.

"DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE"

"Well, I did rather want to when I saw the flower arrangements at Lady Cinq's charity tea last week. Goodness, they were the most garish colour."

"[INHUMAN SHRIEK]"