short sighted prophetic

Return of the Sun-Kings

Grossenbaum near Duisburg ,   -    Hans Baluschek ,  1910

German, 1870 - 1935

This is the line of division / Terminus Est Thecla and Severian from The Book of the New Sun series, which I've been reading for the past couple of years.

I want to give a shout out to Shelved by Genre podcast, which has been excellent listening after reading each book, their long discussions about the chapters have been interesting and inspiring, and provided some context for lot of things I had no point of reference for at all. (Catholic lore, for one). Funnily enough they mentioned in fan art, there tends to be two camps for Severian - either the heavy metal-esque, ripped as hell muscle fantasy type, or, the jrpg protagonist. You can see which camp I am.