Aug 19, 2020
Starting work on a painting of Jame from the Kencyrath series :)
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Starting work on a painting of Jame from the Kencyrath series :)
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“Where there is a window, there is a way.”
-Jamethiel Priest’s-Bane, contemplating how to escape a room
So, rabid fan moment last night. P.C. Hodgell's latest Kencyrath book was released yesterday so I bought the ebook from Baen like I normally do. Only for some reason the file would not work in any of the ebook readers on my phone.
Rather than fix this I went and bought a Kindle copy too because THAT IMPATIENT.
Then read til 4am to finish it.
"I've got to stop falling from great heights. It's unhealthy."
—Jame
Dwar sleep is like REM sleep, but like really good REM sleep that can let you slip into an alternate dimension.
Me trying to explain dwar sleep to someone who doesn’t know Kencyrath
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“Never mind him. He thinks he’s awake. It’s a common delusion.”
-Jamethiel Priest’s-Bane as she lovingly punches Marc in the ribs
“Bane, I don’t understand you at all.”
“You only think you don’t,” he said with a lazy smile, “You know me as well as you know yourself.”
-The Talisman and Bane, calmly talking after maiming a bandit in the middle of the road
Jame, a Superhero
One useful angle to approach the Kencyrath novels from is as a superhero story in a high-fantasy setting. Pat Hodgell has talked about being a comics fan in her childhood and I think Jame shows that in many ways.
She is an amazingly physical heroine, whose exploits seem perfectly designed for the comics medium IMO. A lot of the plot tension comes from questions of the morality of using superhuman abilities, and that's an age-old comic book trope. Her powers are stupendous, equivalent to many superheroes at least. Given how much she avoids learning her limits, they're probably further out than she guesses, but she ranks at demigod level. And like a good superhero story, the plots show that powers don't fix the hard things.
So much high fantasy avoids power in the hands of the hero. That these don't is wonderful.